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Clean Getaway
by Nic Stone (Author)

Booktalk: Take a trip through the segregation history of the American South with an eleven-year-old boy who is about to discover that the world hasn’t always been a welcoming place for kids like him, and things aren’t always what they seem–his G’ma included.

Snippet: It might sound silly, but to William “Scoob” Lamar, the WELCOME TO ALABAMA THE BEAUTIFUL sign looks . . . well, beautiful. Not as beautiful as his best friend Shenice Lockwood in her yellow sundress, but beautiful enough to make Scoob tip his head back, close his eyes, and sigh into the breeze blowing through the open passenger-side window of G’ma’s Winnebago.

Exhale Dad’s lockdown. Inhale the sweet fragrance of freedom. Which smells like pine mixed with a little bit of truck exhaust.

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Invisible Lizard in Love
by Kurt Cyrus (Author) and Andy Atkins (Illustrator)

Booktalk: Napoleon, the spiffiest chameleon in the jungle, is a pretty happy guy. And why shouldn’t he be? After all, he loves living on his spiffy limb, and blending in with its colorful foliage. And after a few missteps, he now has friends. Mike the monkey and Polly the parrot often come to play. The spiffy limb shakes with fun and it seems like the laughter will never stop. Except it does when Mike meets Mooka and Polly meets her Pedro. His friends have found their perfect mates and Napoleon is now back to being on his own. What will it take for the loneliest chameleon in the jungle to find his own true love?

Snippet:
The lizard plopped onto the moss.
“Monkeys have monkeys,” he said.
“Parrots have parrots.
Lizards have no one.”

He scratched a big lonely heart into the moss.