Try July! Make it your month to take part in one of our book discussions. Books are available for the asking, and new participants are always welcome. Read a hook from the publisher for each book and see…
(TWEENS-GRADES 6-8 from 6:30-7:30pm) WEDNESDAY, JULY 1~ “Yellow Star” by Jennifer Roy. “From 1939, when Syvia is four and a half years old, to 1945 when she has just turned ten, a Jewish girl and her family struggle to survive in Poland's Lodz ghetto during the Nazi occupation.”
(YOUNG ADULT-GRADES 9-12 from 6:30-7:30pm) WEDNESDAY, JULY 8~ “Beastly” by Alex Flinn. “I am a monster. You think I'm talking fairy tales? No way. The place is New York City. The time is now. It's no deformity, no disease. And I'll stay this way forever—ruined—unless I can break the spell. Yes, the spell, the one the witch in my English class cast on me. Why did she turn me into a beast who hides by day and prowls by night? I'll tell you. I'll tell you how I used to be Kyle Kingsbury, the guy you wished you were, with money, perfect looks, and the perfect life. And then, I'll tell you how I became perfectly . . . beastly.”
(EVENING-ADULTS from 6-7pm) TUESDAY, JULY 21~ “Before You Know Kindness” by Chris Bohjalian. “On a balmy July night in New Hampshire a shot rings out in a garden, and a man falls to the ground, terribly wounded. The wounded man is Spencer McCullough, the shot that hit him was fired–accidentally?–by his adolescent daughter Charlotte. With this shattering moment of violence, Chris Bohjalian launches the best kind of literate page-turner: suspenseful, wryly funny, and humane.”
(MORNING-ADULTS from 10:15-11:30am) WEDNESDAY, JULY 22~ “In Sunlight, in a Beautiful Garden” by Kathleen Kambor “This is a story of a bittersweet romance set against the backdrop of the Johnstown, Pennsylvania, flood — a tragedy that cost some 2,200 lives when the South Fork Dam burst on Memorial Day weekend, 1889. The dam was the site of a gentlemen's club that attracted some of the wealthiest industrialists of the day — Henry Clay Frick, Andrew Mellon, and Andrew Carnegie — and served as a summertime idyll for the families of the rich. In Sunlight, in a Beautiful Garden imagines the lives that were lived, lost, and irreparably changed by a tragedy that could have been averted.”
(PIZZA & PAGES-GRADES 3-5 from 4-5pm) TUESDAY, JULY 28~ “The Boys Start the War” by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. “Just when the Hatford brothers were expecting three boys to move into the house across the river, where their best friends, the Bensons, used to live, the Malloys arrive instead. Wally and his brothers decide to make Caroline and her sisters so miserable that they'll want to go back to Ohio, but they haven't counted on the ingenuity of the girls.”
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