Choldenko, Gennifer. The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman. Knopf, 06/2024. 309p. $ 17.99. 978-1-5247-1893-0. The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman is the latest tween novel by Bay Area author Gennifer Choldenko, recipient of a [continue reading]
Book Discussion Groups
Book Club Ideas: Leeva at Last
BOOK CLUB IDEAS Pennypacker, Sara. Leeva at Last. Illus. by Matthew Cordell. Balzer + Bray, 2023. Fans of Roald Dahl are sure to enjoy Leeva at Last by Sara Pennypacker, a humorous, satiric story [continue reading]
Book Club Ideas: Indian No More
BOOK CLUB IDEAS McManis, Charlene Willing. Indian No More. Tu Books, Lee & Low, 2019. In this engaging novel for 4th-7th graders, Regina describes her family’s move from the reservation in Oregon to Los Angeles, [continue reading]
BOOK CLUB IDEAS: My Nest of Silence
Faulkner, Matt. My Nest of Silence. Atheneum, 2022. 373p. This unique historical novel is a hybrid of a prose novel and a graphic novel, making it engaging for many types of middle school readers. Mari [continue reading]
Book Club Ideas: A Seed in the Sun
BOOK CLUB IDEAS If a public library is thinking of starting a book club for tweens, Summer can be a great time since kids will be coming for all the summer reading and learning [continue reading]
BOOK CLUB IDEAS: Top Borrowed Books
The Brooklyn Public Library just celebrated its 125th birthday and released a list of its top 125 most borrowed books ever. I have a middle school book club, the Any Book Book Club (or ABBC), [continue reading]
Book Club Ideas – Introduction
ACL plans to include Book Club Ideas as a new section of our blog, since so many school and public libraries have book discussion clubs a part of their ongoing programming. To begin, we have [continue reading]