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Thresholds

Author: 
Nina Kiriki Hoffman
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Reading Level: Grades 4 - 6

After Maya's best friend dies her family moves to a new town in a new state so everyone can get a fresh start. Maya's new bedroom faces the Janus House Apartments which is filled with a fascinating mix of odd people whom she loves to secretly watch. Then one night, a fairy flies into her room through the open window...

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Stanley's Little Sister

Author: 
Linda Bailey
Illustrator: 
Bill Slavin
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Reading Level: Ages 3 - 6

Stanley KNOWS he shouldn't chase the new cat, but the cat, who rejects all of Stanley's attempts at friendship, makes it very hard not to.

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Ruth and the Green Book

Author: 
Calvin Alexander Ramsey
Illustrator: 
Floyd Cooper
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Reading Level: Grades K - 4

Ruth and her parents take a road trip during the Jim Crow era and encounter discrimination at every turn, until they are given a copy of The Negro Motorist Green Book which lists the safe places for African-Americans to eat, visit and stay.

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Me & Death: An Afterlife Adventure

Author: 
Richard Scrimger
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Reading Level: Grades 7 - 9

Jim is proud to be a thug, a bully and a thief, until he stumbles off a curb and gets run over by a car. That is when he learns that souls with unfinished business (and punks like him always have unfinished business) are doomed to spend eternity haunting their old neighborhoods or hanging out at the Jordan Arms, an otherworldly fleabag hotel. Can he prevent his body from dying and change his ways before it is too late?

Me and You

Author: 
Anthony Browne
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Reading Level: Ages 4 - 8

A young urban bear and his family go for a walk in the park only to have an uninvited young girl enter their home, eat their breakfast, break their furniture and rumple their beds.

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