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.