Book Clubs

There are two book groups for students at the library, and both are similar in design. Both meet once a month for half an hour and both have an assigned book that everyone reads (and is provided by the library). Sometimes we'll compare the book to the movie(s) made, and sometimes we'll have writing exercises.


Youth Book Group

This group is for 9 to 12 year olds, and I try to pick books or take suggestions of things they wouldn't be assigned to read in school. A few we've read in the past include: The Lemonade Trick (Corbett), Be a Perfect Person In Just Three Days (Manes), Soup (Peck), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Dahl) and Dew Drop Dead (Howe).

Teen Book Club

This group is for 7th through 12th graders. Though I rely on suggestions a little more heavily for this group, I also use it as an opportunity to expose them to books they may not pick up on their own. My favorite anecdotes is when we read the first book by Tamora Pierce, which happens to have a pink cover. One of the boys in the group said he almost didn't read it for that reason, but he was so glad he did, as the story was excellent. Titles we've read in this group: So You Want to Be a Wizard (Duane), Artemis Fowl (Colfer), Twilight (Meyer), Bridge to Terabithia (Paterson) and Stotan! (Crutcher).