SOLVED. Middle Grade novel. A girl has a library set up on the landing of her stairs and elastics holding up her socks. [s]

[Kate]

I had this book in the 1990's definitely before 2000. I can't find it and it is driving me nuts! I read it around grade 5.

I thought it was called something like Landing Library, but I can't find anything like that.

There was a girl who was running? a library on the landing of her stairs, and had a weird best friend. The girl had a grandmother who was missing part of her pinkie finger from it being slammed in a door. The girl also wore produce elastics to hold up her socks. I think the cover was a girl from the waist down with her socks and elastics showing.

Any thoughts?

[Becca]

I think that's I Should Have Listened to Moon by Elisabeth Dyjak:

I pulled up my socks. I pulled so hard that I popped my left elastic. ‘“Shucks!’’ I held the broken band and stared at my falling sock.

Lyon was missing a finger! On Lyon’s left hand, her little pinky was gone! Where there should have been a knuckle was an ugly stump that wiggled. I swallowed. “Uh, where’s your finger? I mean, what happened to your hand?”

(Lyon is her grandmother)

[Kate]

That would be it! Thanks so much ☺️ how did you find that?

[Becca]

I remembered the grandma with the missing finger so I checked a copy on archive.org and found those quotes to confirm it

[Kate]

Nice! Well thanks to your good memory. I couldn't remember the title or any character names to save my life.