Chapter 7 Summary

Miss Franny proceeds to tell Opal and Winn-Dixie the story of how a bear got into the library. Miss Franny was approximately Opal's age when this happened. Her father, Herman W. Block, built the library because his little girl loved to read, and he was rich.

She was sitting in the library one day with all the doors and windows open because it was summertime and hot when she noticed a shadow cross her desk. Without looking up from her book, she asked whether there was a book she could help someone find. And that's when she saw the bear.

The Bear was three times the size of Winn-Dixie. Although she was concerned that the bear might want to eat her, Miss Franny decided right then and there that she wasn't going to let that happen without a fight. She was reading War...