Category Archives: book club

New kids book club!

Posted on 08/06/2010 by

This fall our library is starting a new book club for 4th and 5th graders. We’re modelling it on the Young Critics Club at the Perrot Memorial Library in Greenwich, CT, the legacy of the legendary Kate McClelland. I returned … Continue reading →

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Cracking the code

Posted on 09/21/2009 by

For the September meeting of Addicted to Books (the parent/child book club for  my 10 year old) we read Eoin Colfer’s Artemis Fowl. I had picked it up several years ago when it first came out, but put it down … Continue reading →

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Addicted to Books: Book Clubs and Bonding

Posted on 07/11/2009 by

Although our book club is still relatively new (begun in April ’09), we took our first outing after our monthly discussion on July 3. Yes, you are reading that correctly, we managed to meet on Friday, July 3, only a … Continue reading →

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Addicted to Books

Posted on 05/08/2009 by

Our new parent/child book club met for the second time this afternoon. Before beginning the discussion, I asked for suggestions for names, and one fourth-grader suggested “book addicts.” Then we played with it, book addicts, or addicted to books? So … Continue reading →

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The Power of Reading

Posted on 04/23/2009 by

My book club recently read Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Infidel, a powerful, moving story of her childhood in Somalia, Saudi Arabia, and Kenya, her arranged marriage and escaping it by seeking asylum in Denmark, her desire for education and entry into … Continue reading →

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The Country of the Pointed Firs

Posted on 12/17/2008 by

For December, our book club read Sarah Orne Jewett’s The Country of the Pointed Firs. A lovely portrait of a very particular place and time, of human character, with insights into human nature that still hold true. I first read … Continue reading →

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