BOOK DROP, by Sarah A. BresnikerStealing books from libraries is not an uncommon thing. You may have even done it, or at least thought about it. But stealing books for a library? Not so common.
Sure, there have probably been desperate librarians with shrunken budgets who have slipped a book or two or fifty off the shelf of the local Barnes & Noble. But whatever it was that started happening last month at my library was different.
The first time it happened, I was at the front desk. We’re a modern library with self-checkout machines that read a tag inside every book. Staff is usually only involved when something goes wrong. One of our regulars, a mom with four young kids, was checking out a big pile of books and one of them wasn’t triggering the sensor. I went over to help. When I took th
