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It’s an ill wind that blows no good. When Jess’s trailer is whacked by a tornado in “The Day I Didn’t Go to the Pool,” he learns the value of his family—and of paying attention during school assembly.

Did you know that for many years the Boston Marathon did not allow women to enter? Bobbi Gibbs changed all that in the true story “The Bandit Runner,” which inspired Sluggo to run his own—very slow, though very short—marathon. (Will he beat the other buggies?)