Ross Simmons is a 77-year-old man from Kiama, Australia. He found the book in a tea cratecrate/kreɪt/L1大箱子，用来装东西的木箱或塑料箱a big box used for storing or moving things when he was fixing up his house. The old tea crate was inside the fireplacefireplace/ˈfaɪərpleɪs/L1壁炉，屋里烧火取暖的地方a place in a house where you make a fire to keep warm for many years. He did not know it was a librarylibrary/ˈlaɪbrɛri/L1图书馆，可以借书的地方a place with many books that you can read or borrow book for a very long time.
The book was 150 years latelate/leɪt/L1迟的，晚的after the usual or expected time to the Kiama Public Library in Australia. The library had a rule for late books, and the finefine/faɪn/L1罚款，因做错事而交的钱money you have to pay because you did something wrong was $20,000. But the library did not want the money because they were just happy to get the book back.
The man felt good about returning the book to the Kiama library. The library staff said it was a happy story of a lost book coming home. The book is called "The Antiquities of Athens" and it is safe in the library now.
