The Quiet Hour

by Nadia Brennan

Every weekday from three to four, the public library's reading room fills with teenagers who have nowhere else to be — and Marian, the librarian, has stopped pretending she doesn't notice. When budget cuts threaten to end the after-school hours, a runaway, a chess prodigy, and a girl who never speaks must decide whether a place worth saving is worth being seen for. A warm drama about the spaces that hold kids when home can't.