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 Really Rock'n Reading Group
The Really Rock'n Reading Group for 5th, 6th, and 7th graders meets on the third Tuesday of the month from 4 - 5 PM in the Children's Program Room.
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Librarian and club leader Ruth Crutchley will be leading the group. Sign-up in the Children's Room or call 860.844.5284 Books available at the library. |
Book Picks for April - June 2011
April 19th - Christian the Lion by Anthony Burke and John Rendell; adapted for children by Ruth Knowles
Charmed to see a live lion cub for sale at Harrods, two Aussie lads buy it and put it in the basement of their London antiques shop. Affectionate, comfortable around people, and only occasionally destructive, Christian lasts there for nearly a year before the authors figure out that he would be better off in the wild and fly him to Kenya, where George and Joy Adamson of Born Free fame help him to make the transition from captivity.
May 17th - The Wednesday Wars by Gary Schmidt
Entering seventh grade, Holling Hoodhood knows all about teachers. They're ""born behind their desks, fully grown, with a red pen in their hand and ready to grade."" And the worst of them hate your guts, which is precisely the way he believes Mrs. Baker feels about him. Every Wednesday afternoon, when the rest of his class leaves early to attend Hebrew school or catechism class, Holling, the lone Presbyterian, stays behind with Mrs. Baker. As Holling sees it, she uses the extra time for special torture, ranging from cleaning out rat cages to diagramming impossibly convoluted sentences to reading Shakespeare.
June 21st - The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart
In the summer between her freshman and sophomore years, Frankie Landau-Banks transforms from a scrawny, awkward child with frizzy hair to a curvy beauty, all while sitting quietly in a suburban hammock, reading the short stories of Dorothy Parker and drinking lemonade. On her return to Alabaster Prep, her elite boarding school, she attracts the attention of gorgeous Matthew, who draws her into his circle of popular seniors. Then Frankie learns that Matthew is a member of the Loyal Order of the Basset Hounds, an all-male Alabaster secret society to which Frankie's dad had once belonged. Excluded from belonging to or even discussing the Bassets, Frankie engineers her own guerilla membership by assuming a false online identity.
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