A book checked out a half-century ago has been anonymously returned to a library in northeastern Pennsylvania, officials said.
The Wilkes-Barre Citizens' Voice reports that the 1967 copy of the book Coins You Can Collect by Burton Hobson arrived last month at the Plymouth Public Library in Luzerne County along with a $28 bill.
An accompanying unsigned letter, written as if by the book itself, said "Fifty years ago (yes 50!), a little girl checked me out of this library in 1971. At this time, she didn't know they were going to move from Plymouth. Back then, kids weren't told things like that.
![Library director Laura Keller said "she did just that", paying "some hefty fines" of a young mother who wanted to start borrowing books again. Photo / AP](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/resizer/v2/IPBXIUPBYUTHBGR2B2HWVNGGOE.jpg?auth=2655baa55283c67576fef6bd1f3a38e4252934176baff4ed76b398703c62be2a&width=16&height=12&quality=70&smart=true)
"As you can see, she took very good care of me," the letter continued, explaining that it was packed away often for frequent moves but was "always with many other books."