Books take us to new places, but sometimes it's more fun to travel with others. 
In this book club we will build fluency and engage in meaningful discussion, while expanding our understanding of literary devices. We will touch on flashback, foreshadowing, symbolism, false endings, characterization and voice (to name a few). All of the books I have chosen are modern reads, published within the last five years. While I do love the “classics” from my childhood, I also love reading and discovering new things. I believe that diving into a book and reading new, diverse, stories can help us have new conversations with our world and give us the tools we need to understand the people around us. 
Let’s explore some books together and learn how to fly.

This is a multi-day course that meets twice a week for six weeks. We will take turns reading aloud, and spend time getting to know the story and characters. 
You do not need to own the book in order to participate.


For the September/October session of Stories With Wings we will read The Someday Birds by Sally J Pla

Charlie wishes his life could be as predictable and simple as chicken nuggets.
And it usually is. He has his clean room, his carefully organized bird books and art supplies, his favorite foods, and comfortable routines.
But life has been unraveling since his war journalist father was injured in Afghanistan. And when Dad gets sent across country for medical treatment, Charlie must reluctantly travel to meet him. With his boy-crazy sister, unruly twin brothers, and a mysterious new family friend at the wheel, the journey looks anything but smooth.
So Charlie decides to try and spot all the birds that he and his dad had been hoping to see together in the wild. If he can complete the Someday Birds list for Dad, then maybe, just maybe, things will turn out okay...


For the November/December session of Stories With Wings we will read Coo by Kaela Noel

Ten years ago, an impossible thing happened: a flock of pigeons picked up a human baby who had been abandoned in an empty lot and carried her, bundled in blankets, to their roof. Coo has lived her entire life on the rooftop with the pigeons who saved her. It’s the only home she’s ever known. But then a hungry hawk nearly kills Burr, the pigeon she loves most, and leaves him gravely hurt.
Coo must make a perilous trip to the ground for the first time to find Tully, a retired postal worker who occasionally feeds Coo’s flock, and who can heal injured birds. Tully mends Burr’s broken wing and coaxes Coo from her isolated life. Living with Tully, Coo experiences warmth, safety, and human relationships for the first time. But just as Coo is beginning to blossom, she learns the human world is infinitely more complex, and cruel, and wonderful, than she could have imagined.