"It's worth a shot," Autumn shrugged.
"Does this place have a library?" Addy asked. "I get my best thoughts when I'm reading."
Autumn answered, "I don't know; I've never really been out of the island. But there must be one, I mean, it's a castle!"
"Is it okay with your dad if we explore a little bit?" Erin wondered.
"Sure, he doesn't mind."
As the girls explored the island, they came across a small wooden door at the other end. Addy opened the door carefully, and the girls peeked out. In front of them, the wide kitchen floor stretched away into the distance. Autumn leaped down and hit the ground with a thud. A storm of flashing lights whirled around her, and she became the normal size of a human. The others also jumped down and the same thing happened to them.
"We're back!" Erin exclaimed with delight. "It feels nice to be the right size again."
A half hour of walking later, the girls found themselves staring at a room full of giant wooden bookcases filled with books of every kind.
"I think we found the library," Addy remarked. "You guys go ahead and meet me back here in an hour."
"Okay," the other two agreed.
Addy wandered the room feeling as if she would be sucked into the bookcases. Soon she found a large dark green book on which gold writing said, "The History of O'Kyle's Castle-1763."
There was a faint cracking sound when Addy opened the book. As the small letters in the book flooded into Addy's mind she read,"On April 23, 1760 O'Kyle's Castle began to take shape. The O'Kyles were great people; Mr. Michael O'Kyle ran for town leader in the year 1715, and Mrs. Grace O'Kyle studied witchcraft in the early 1700s and eventually found a cure for largepox, a deadly disease that wreaked havoc over much of the world. In 1743, Mr. and Mrs. O'Kyle were murdered in their small home in Ballyshannon, Ireland." Addy stopped reading and stared at the book in shock. Murdered...she thought. How terrible....
