in the public library
we would get children literally dumped in the library by their own parents, not caring while they went away for hours and come back to find their children distressed and wandering by themselves alone.
We would also get streetkids, runaways whose parents didnt care where they were, or if they did, theratened them with a beating if they ever returned home.
they would sometimes use the toilets for doing drugs...I remember one girl we all had trouble with and she would come to the library all the time, she had no place to go. She wasnt that interested in reading as her homelife was such her parents never stayed in one place so she had gone from school to school and fell behind with everything.
when kids reach the teen stage and they havent mastered reading, their peers might mock them for being interested in picture books. The converse is true, read TOO much, and you are seen as a brainy know it all, and also mocked. Boys it seems will mock other boys if they are too into books
I had one sweet girl in school who always wanted to read with me, and came in nearly every day, so would read with her, but she was only there for a month or two before leaving school to go somewhere else. She told her teacher she had made a friend ...me!
a lot of children would deliberately try to skip class just to hang out in the library. Theyd say their teacher was mean etc. I had to kind of be diplomatic. One one hand...yay. on the other hand ...you are missing out on your lesson...! If they did it too much Id susupect something was up or their class was so boring maybe they were too bright for it and needed extension.