Loved this story. First I thought that Clark's interest in the library was a little more personal. But it's cute that he wants to save the place for his Mom. I, too, spend a lot of my teenage years in the local library. I didn't read all the books, though...
Yeah he wanted it to be a surprise. At first I had it in my head that he knew why it mattered so much to his Mom but eventually I decided he didn't, he just wanted to help lol
Thank you!