Book Club for 2020-21 will be virtual!
About: Read the current month’s book selection and then join Mrs. Haake online for a discussion.
Books: Students will be responsible for getting a copy of the selected title. A library card will be needed in order to borrow a book from the school media center or the public library. Here are a few ways to get a copy of the book:
- One copy may be available in school media center
- Electronic copy via Discover Destiny
- Park Ridge Library (place a hold for curbside pickup)
- Request via BCCLS
- Libby app – use a valid library card to listen or read ebook version
- Purchase book
When: Middle School– first Tuesday of November, January, March and May.
Teen – last Tuesday of every month
Both groups meet at 2:50-3:30 pm
Where: Schoology/Google Meet
Middle School Selection
Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani
Shy twelve-year-old Nisha, forced to flee her home with her Hindu family during the 1947 partition of India, tries to find her voice and make sense of the world falling apart around her by writing to her deceased Muslim mother in the pages of her diary.
Teen Selection
Stepsister by Jennifer Donnelly
Isabelle is one of Cinderella’s ugly stepsisters, who cut off their toes in an attempt to fit into the glass slipper; but there is more to her story than a maimed foot, for the Marquis de la Chance is about to offer her a choice and the opportunity to change her fate–there will be blood and danger, but also the possibility of redemption and triumph, and most of all the chance to find her true self.
