Books for Boys

Book Club

FOR BOYS AGES 8 TO 11 AND THEIR ACCOMPANYING ADULT

EVERY third Thursday AT 6:30 PM in the community room, unless indicated differently in the schedule.

Come enjoy discussions of amazing tween novels, create a craft, and have a treat! All while enjoying the friendship of other boys and their accompanying adults.

Book club reading copies will be available for checkout from the circulation desk about a month prior to the meeting. There is a limit of one copy per household.

SCHEDULE


September 8, 2022—Kick Off Event!*
October 13 2022—Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone*
November 17, 2022—Sideways Stories from Wayside School
No book club in December
January 19, 2023—Rump: The True Story of Rumplestiltskin
February 9, 2023—The Lemonade War*
March 16, 2023—The Unicorn Rescue Society: The Creature of the Pines
April 20, 2023—Tale of Desperaux
May 4, 2023—The Strange Case of Origami Yoda*

*combined with the Mother Daughter Book Club

Reading List

September 8, 2022

Kick-Off Take ‘n Go Event!

We’ll have this event with the members of the Mother Daughter Book Club! Come in and …

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October 13, 2022

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
by J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter’s life is miserable. His parents are dead and he’s stuck with his heartless relatives, who force him to live in a tiny closet under …

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November 17, 2022

Sideways Stories from Wayside School
by Louis Sachar

Accidentally built sideways and standing thirty stories high (the builder said he was very sorry for the mistake), Wayside School has some of the wackiest ….

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January 19, 2023

Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin
by Liesl Shurtliff

In a magic kingdom where your name is your destiny, 12-year-old Rump is the butt of everyone’s joke. But when he finds an old spinning wheel, his luck seems to change. Rump discovers he has a gift for

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February 9, 2023

The Lemonade War
by Jacqueline Davies

Fourth-grader Evan Treski is people-smart. He’s good at talking with people, even grownups. His younger sister, Jessie, on the other hand, is math-smart, but not …

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March 16, 2023

The Creature of the Pines
by Adam Gidwitz

Elliot Eisner isn’t exactly excited about starting at a brand-new school in a brand-new town; he’d much rather

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April 20, 2023

The Tale of Despereaux
by Kate DiCamillo

Welcome to the story of Despereaux Tilling, a mouse who is in love with music, stories, and a princess named Pea. It is also the story of a

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May 4, 2023

The Strange Case of Origami Yoda
by Tom Angleberger

Meet Dwight, a sixth-grade oddball. Dwight does a lot of weird things, like wearing the same T-shirt for a month or telling people to call him “Captain …

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Closures in 2023

  • January 2 – New Year’s
  • January 16 – Martin Luther King, Jr., Day
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