The
holidays will be over before we know it: what's there to look forward to in
2015? The second half of our Children's Book Clubs! We will be
resuming in January and continuing on monthly through April. Stories full
of fantasy, fun and humor will make for some lively evenings of talk. For those
of you new to our children’s discussion groups, we offer a Junior Readers Club
for students in grades 2-3 and a Family Book Club for students in grades 4, 5
& 6. Registration for each
discussion is required here at the library.
Copies of the book are available for check out upon
registration. Parents are highly
encouraged to read the book and accompany their child to the librarian led discussion. Participation in the discussions is not demanded. Exposure to and participation in book
discussions will enhance critical thinking skills in young readers and give
them chances to express themselves in a positive, grade-free environment. Please join us, along with faces new and old,
Wednesday evenings this winter and spring as we talk about the following books:
January 21st If you could choose to stay the age you are and never die, would you? Young Winnie Foster faces this opportunity (?) when she discovers the Tuck family and their secret about a spring whose water prevents one from ever growing any older.
February 18 Summer believes in luck and wonders why she and her family don't seem to have any. Her latest run of bad luck includes spending the summer caring for her little brother while helping her grandmother cook and do laundry for harvest workers. The generation gap between contemporary Summer and her Japanese grandparents will strike a chord with many young readers. However, through them and her own determination, Summer learns that you make your own luck through hard work.
March 18th Every teacher's nightmare: when Rafe Kane enters middle school, he teams up with his best friend, "Leo the Silent," to create a game to make school more fun by trying to break every rule in the school's code of conduct. As we get to know Rafe, we discover his idea of "fun" is a way of avoiding some very real problems.
April 15th Follows Janine, a fourteen-year-old American girl whose life unexpectedly transforms when she moves to London in 1952 and gets swept up in the burgeoning Cold War AND the search for her friend's apothecary/alchemist father. He has mysteriously disappeared, leaving the two teens with an ancient book of magic elixers and formulas. The atomic bomb looms in this exciting adventure of science and magic battling each other.
January 28th Harry's not crazy; he owns a parrot - Madison - inherited from his great-uncle. This parrot goes way beyond "Polly wants a cracker" and becomes the treasure Harry had originally hoped for. Stolen by burglars, Mad must make his way back using his ingenuity (and beak). If you liked Kate DiCamillo's Flora & Ulysses, this book is for you.
February 25th What is Danny champion at? Danny and his father live a simple idyllic existence in a caravan operating a filling station near rich Mr. Hazell's Wood. One night, Danny discovers his dad is a master poacher and learns all about the fine art of this English pasttime. We can't help but be taken in as his dad describes the thrill of flirting with danger (game keepers with their guns) and his irritation with the "bloated" landowner, Mr. Hazell. The annual pheasant hunt provides Danny & his dad a marvelous opportunity to pull off an amazing coup. Any child would love to be part of Danny's world.
March 25th The story of Roan Novachez, Jedi Academy student, is told through comics, journal entries, letters, doodles, and newspaper clippings. This original story from author/illustrator Jeffrey Brown captures all of the humor, awkwardness, fun, and frustrations of middle school ... in a galaxy far, far away.
April 22nd. We'll end the year with a lighthearted look at middle school through the jottings and doodles of Big Nate. Among his achievements are managing to get detention from every one of his teachers in the same day.
We
keep a list of past book club selections, so if you are looking for a
suggestion for a children’s book club of your own, or just a quality book,
please ask us. We love to talk books!
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