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![]() And, since the junior high was in the same building as the high school, we had a more formal library at the school, and there I found Heinlein, Wells and Verne. titles that were coming out when I was at that age these were the older things). I got to read my first Edgar Rice Burroughs books there and Tom Swift (not the Tom Swift Jr. The Iowa Park town library was small and featured many older titles. It was not until junior high in Iowa Park, Texas, that I really found out about libraries and what wonders they held. In several, there was not a formal library, just collections of books in each teacher’s room and whatever was there was what you got. The libraries were small – heavy on reference books and some fiction. But, in those formative years, I was in Alaska and then in small-town Texas. This first novel in the series should have been in my school libraries when I was in grade school and, had they been, I would have found them. But like the Prather novel, I missed Eleanor Cameron’s Mushroom Planet novels when I was much younger. No, The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet is not a humorous detective novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() This week we have a book that shares some similarities with last week’s Shell Scott adventures. This is the 174th in my series of Forgotten Books. The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet sets the wayback machine to 1954. ![]()
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