Bookworms Book Group

Bookworms is a book club for 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students. We meet on the third Thursday of each month. We have snacks and discuss a different book each month. Free copies of the book to be discussed at the next meeting are handed out and are also available after the meeting.

For more information or registration, contact Angie Bayne, Children's Librarian, at 634-6064, ext. 253 or baynea@mrrl.org.

Upcoming Bookworms Books

Thursday, June 20, 7 pm
The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau

In the year 241, twelve-year-old Lina trades jobs on Assignment Day to be a Messenger to run to new places in her decaying but beloved city, perhaps even to glimpse Unknown Regions.

Thursday, July 18, 7 pm
Mockingbird by Katherine Erskine

Ten-year-old Caitlin, who has Asperger's Syndrome, struggles to understand emotions, show empathy, and make friends at school, while at home she seeks closure by working on a project with her father.

Thursday, August 15, 7 pm
The Unwanteds by Lisa McMann

In a society that purges thirteen-year-olds who are creative, identical twins Aaron and Alex are separated, one to attend University while the other, supposedly Eliminated, finds himself in a wondrous place where youths hone their abilities and learn magic.

 

Thursday, September 19, 7 pm
Where the red fern grows by Wilson Rawls

A young boy living in the Ozarks achieves his heart's desire when he becomes the owner of two redbone hounds and teaches them to be champion hunters.

Thursday, October 17, 7 pm
In front of God and everybody by K.D. McCrite

In the summer of 1986, eleven-year-old April Grace, who lives on a rural Arkansas farm with her family, across a field from her grandmother, has her sense of Christian charity tested when a snooty couple from San Francisco moves into a dilapidated house down the road and her grandmother takes up with a loud, obnoxious, and suspicious-acting Texan.

Thursday, November 21, 7 pm
Operation Yes by Sara Lewis Holmes

In her first ever teaching job, Miss Loupe uses improvisational acting exercises with her sixth-grade students at an Air Force base school, and when she experiences a family tragedy, her previously skeptical class members use what they have learned to help her, her brother, and other wounded soldiers.

Thursday, December 19, 7 pm
Bring Your Own Book Night

We are going to try something a little bit different this month. It is going to be a bring your own book night. I want you to bring a book you loved or just read and be prepared to talk about it. We can put together a list of everyone's books for the group. 

 

Past Bookworms Selections

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