Oh, indeed a differen edition 
It has furigana on most kanji, but stuff like 日本人, 町, 目, doesn’t come with it. So like 2nd or 3rd grade kanji maybe?
In any case, if this gets chosen we should make sure to mention the different editions.
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Thanks @Chimmsen @yukitanuki for looking into it. I have a printed copy and when I checked it seemed to be pretty furigana’d. I didn’t even think to check the ebook editions (assumed they’d be the same).
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Nominations are about halfway filled, so if anyone who’s already nominated something wants to add another I think it’d be a good time!
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Is there a deadline? I have one more book in mind if we don’t get more nominations.
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No hard deadlines, but I want to have a vote within the next couple of weeks, then we can start the new book in mid october (after the last book in the Natively club finishes)
Go ahead and nominate your other book! I have a couple more I can add too.
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恐怖コレクター // Fear Collector
Natively Link (23)
Available formats: physical / ebook / full furigana
Summary - Japanese
「都市伝説」とよばれる、正体不明の噂。それは迷信…とされていたが、ここ最近得体の知れない現象の被害者が続出！ そして事件現場には必ず、ある少年が現れるという――。意外な結末の連続、新感覚ミステリー!!【小学中級から ★★】
Summary - English
Urban legends—mysterious rumors of unknown origin. Once dismissed as mere superstition… but recently, victims of inexplicable phenomena have been appearing one after another! And at every crime scene, a certain boy always shows up—. A series of unexpected endings, a fresh new mystery!! [For elementary school intermediate level and up ★★]
Reason(s) for nominating: Another spooky scary skeletons book for October. This one is a short story collection. Bookwalker preview has full furigana.
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And now I have reached my self-imposed limit of three active nominations. The rest is up to you guys 
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I have at least one spooky season book I wanted to nominate.. although I did want to look through kids books I already owned 
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Title: 帰命寺横丁の夏
Natively: 帰命寺横丁の夏 | L26
Available formats: physical / ebook / full furigana
Summary - Japanese
全米図書館協会バチェルダー賞、大賞受賞!!
アメリカで翻訳された児童書の中で、傑出した作品に贈られるバチェルダー賞の大賞を、2022年1月に受賞。
死んだ人が生き返る!?
帰命寺横丁からあらわれた幽霊の女の子。気がつけばクラスの一員だった!!
祈れば生き返ることができる「帰命寺様」からくりひろげられる、柏葉幸子の大ファンタジー!
帰命寺横町には不思議なご本尊「帰命寺様」が、代々まつられていた。「帰命寺様」に祈ると、死者がよみがえるという。
ある夜、トイレに起きたカズは、庭を横切る白い影を見る。それは、よみがえった少女・あかりの影だった。
二人の不思議な夏休みがはじまる!
From a review:
帰命寺はお参りすると死んだ人が帰ってこられるふしぎなお寺。小学５年生のカズは、帰命寺のなぞや昔の町や自分の家のことをいろいろ調べていきます。主人公の少年とよみがえった同級生の女の子がどうなっていくのか気になり、本の中で別の物語が展開されていたりするので、読み応えのある本だと思いました。
Summary - English
National Library Association Bachelder Award, Grand Prize Winner!
The Bachelder Award Grand Prize for Outstanding Children’s Book Translated in the U.S. was awarded in January 2022.
A dead person comes back to life!
A ghost girl appears from Kimeiji Yokocho. She finds herself a member of the class!
Sachiko Kashiwaba’s great fantasy unfolds from “Kimeiji-sama” who can come back to life if she prays!
In the town of Kumeiji Yokomachi, the mysterious “Kumeiji-sama,” the main deity of the temple, has been worshipped for generations. It is said that if you pray to “Kimeiji-sama,” the dead will come back to life.
One night, Kazu wakes up to go to the bathroom and sees a white shadow crossing the garden. It was the shadow of a revived girl, Akari.
Their mysterious summer vacation begins!
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From a review:
Kimei-ji Temple is a mysterious temple where dead people can come back to life when they visit. Kazu, a fifth grader, investigates the mysteries of the temple, the old town, and his own home. I was curious about what would happen to the main character, a boy, and his revived classmate, a girl, and thought the book was worth reading because there are other stories unfolding in the book.
Content Warnings
Death?
Reason(s) for nominating:
- written by the author of 霧の向こうのふしぎな町
- English translation won an award for “Outstanding Children’s Book”
- spooky-season appropriate!
- gorgeous cover art
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Hi hi. Soggy what sort of pace do you think we’d be reading at for this club? I might experiment a bit before it starts to see how comfortable it would be for me to keep up.
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Hey! We would probably start around 10 pages per week. If you want to start getting comfortable, you could try 1 page per day (7/week) for a couple of weeks.
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Title: 図書室の怪談
Natively Link 図書室の怪談 悪魔の本 (ポプラキミノベル み 1-1) | L26
Available formats: physical / ebook / partial furigana
Summary - Japanese
「本の怪談」の緑川聖司がおくる、図書室で出会う"呪われた本"を巡るホラー新シリーズ！ 大樹は、いじめられていたクラスメイトをかばったことで、自分がいじめの対象に。ある日、図書室で見つけた「悪魔の本」を読み始めると、周囲でおかしなことが起こり始めるーー。大樹の周辺に現れる女の子、幼馴染、謎の青年、神主さんはそれぞれ秘密がありそうで、真実を言っているのは誰なのか、大樹は呪われた本から逃れられるのか!
Summary - English
Seiji Midorikawa, author of “Book Ghost Stories,” presents a new horror series revolving around a “cursed book” encountered in the library! Taiki becomes the target of bullying after defending a classmate who was being bullied. One day, he starts reading the “Devil’s Book” he found in the library, and strange things begin happening around him… The girl appearing around Taiki, his childhood friend, the mysterious young man, and the shrine priest all seem to have secrets. Who is telling the truth? Can Taiki escape the cursed book?!
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Reason(s) for nominating: Another spooky nomination! I liked the art style of the cover and illustrations on this one… What can I say, I’m shallow
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Ok, based on the schedule for the book being read in the Natively club, I’ve set the start date for the first book in this club as October 11th.
It’s about time to get voting, so get any remaining nominations in by 2025-09-06T05:00:00Z ! After that I will set up the poll.
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Voting time, what a happy time!
Calling all voters, children’s book enthusiasts, and poll-clickers!
It’s time to vote for the inaugural Children’s Novel Club pick! You will have 
unlimited votes, so please vote for everything you want to read, and we’ll see what happens.
Voting will be open until 2025-09-15T05:00:00Z
Children’s Novel Club Poll 1
- となりのふたごは闇使い / The Dark Magic Twins next door
- 紫禁城の秘密のともだち / Friend from the Forbidden City
- オレンジ / orange 1
- バック・トゥ・ザ・フューチャー / Back to the Future
- 銀色☆フェアリーテイル / Silver Fairytale
- 夏目友人帳 / Natsume’s Book of Friends
- リメンバー・ミー / Remember Me (Disney’s Coco)
- おチビがうちにやってきた! 未来が見える!? / A child came to my house! She can see the future?!
- ルドルフとイッパイアッテナ / Rudolf and Ippai Attena
- 恐怖コレクター / Fear Collector
- 帰命寺横丁の夏 / Kimyouji Yokochou Summer
- 図書室の怪談 / Ghost Story in the Library
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My nomination isn’t quite a front runner but it is getting more votes than I expected. It’s probably lvl 22-24 on natively if/when it gets more input. I picked 20 when I first added it because it seemed easier than some others I’d tried but that may be underselling it. The book is willing to use kanji for words so it’s aimed at 5th and 6th graders I think. the big hidden difficulty is Chinatsu being 2才 uses baby talk. For example, すごい becomes ちゅごい. I think s and t sounds are hard for her from what I remember. The older kids usually translate what she’s trying to say but I just wanted to put out a fair warning in case this was getting voted for being easier. It’s not too hard but it’s a little above what’s listed.
There’s a lot on this list I hadn’t heard of before. I voted for 5/12 of them. 
UNLIMITED VOTES:high_voltage: means I could vote for everything, but where’s the fun in that? Something’s got to win.
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I blame @TobiasW for the unlimited votes idea If we don’t like it we can do limited votes in the future, but it’s kind of fun to see what people do!
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I stopped reading the current book on natively because of some private problems, but I hope I will be able to read the next book.
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We would love to have you back whenever you’re ready! 
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I have no problem being blamed for good ideas 
People should be able to vote for everything that they would happily participate in, and it creates zero problems for those that want to use less votes.
(And even if you vote for everything, something will win!)
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Please be careful with those Back to the Future spoilers!
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