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Difficulty:
I started reading this book right after I finished Genki 2. Had to look up many words, but still I think this was accessible with my level. I recognized so many grammar points and vocabulary from Genki that I thought I'd probably recommend this book as a supplementary material to those books if I were a Japanese teacher.
The prose, in general is simple.
One downside is that so many words I'm used to see in Kanji, are written in Hiragana.
Story:
The story is about a boy who visits a library to return books, and as the title implies strange things start to happen, and he finds himself trapped in the library.
There's a touch of horror to the story, but the tone is lighthearted and the plot is not complicated, and of course there's magical realism.
The book also contains cute illustrations.