****Please read each book's description so that you can decide if you want your child to read the book.  You can do an internet search for each book's summary.  Kirkus Reviews is a good website, and so is Common Sense Media.****


Welcome to the Middle Grades Book Club!   
In our weekly book club, your child will read and discuss different types of fiction novels and engage in book-related activities.
 Books open a child's world to new ideas, vocabulary, cultures, and activities, and they allow kids to experience all sorts of adventures.  

Besides building a love of reading, book clubs have many benefits:
Children read books they might not normally read.
The book discussions promote deep thinking about a book.
Kids get useful practice with forming opinions and using the text to help support their thinking.


Literacy skills such as reading comprehension skills, analyzing plot, themes, characters, and setting are developed by reading.


   
Each book club meeting our book discussion will begin with a focus activity such as a  quote from the book, a scene from the book, or a description of the setting or a character.     Our group discussion will include discussing literary elements (characters, plot, setting, themes, etc.) and the reading response questions for the assigned chapters.  We will also do a book-related activity after our class discussion. If our discussion runs long, the learners may need to complete the book-related activity outside of our club meeting.  Supplies for the activities will be posted a week before the  next club meeting. 

 Each week, reading response questions for the assigned chapters will be uploaded to the classroom.  The purpose of the reading response questions is to encourage readers to interact with the book with the goal of increased comprehension. They can be printed, cut out,  and glued or taped into the reading response  journal.

  
The learners may create a reading journal for our book club to track the books they are reading in our book club and on their own.
A PDF of pages to make a reading journal is in the classroom so that it can be printed  to be used with a two pocket folder with 3 hole punch prongs, or it can be used with a 3 ring binder.  


      Your child may join our book club at any time because we start a new book about every four weeks.  If your child joins after we have started a new book, we will review the previous chapters from the previous  meeting or meetings.



****All learners must be enrolled in the club to be fair to the other enrolled learners.****

Thursdays 1 pm Eastern time

October 24
The Losers Club by Andrew Clements
Discuss Chapters 1-12



October 31
The Losers Club by Andrew Clements
Discuss Chapters 13-24


November 7
The Losers Club by Andrew Clements
Discuss Chapters 25-37




November 14
Peanut Jones and the Illustrated City by Rob Biddulph
Discuss Part 1
Activity: Mini Drawings


November 21
Peanut Jones and the Illustrated City by Rob Biddulph
Discuss Part 2
Activity: Artist Drawing 

December 5

Peanut Jones and the Illustrated City by Rob Biddulph
Discuss Part 3
Activity: Creative Writing Activity


December 12
Peanut Jones and the Illustrated City by Rob Biddulph
Discuss Parts 4 & 5
Activity: Secret Codes

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January 9
Gangsta Granny by David Walliams
Discuss Chapters 1-11


January 16
Gangsta Granny by David Walliams
Discuss Chapters 12-22

January 23
Gangsta Granny by David Walliams
Discuss Chapters 23-Postscript






Thursday 12 pm Eastern time 




October 3
It's Boba Time for Pearl Li by Nicole Chen
Discuss Chapters 1-10
Art activity 

October 10
It's Boba Time for Pearl Li by Nicole Chen
Discuss Chapters 11-20


October 24

It's Boba Time for Pearl Li by Nicole Chen
Discuss Chapters 21-30

October 31 

It's Boba Time for Pearl Li by Nicole Chen
Discuss Chapters 31-Epilogue


November 14

A Split Second by Janae Marks
Discuss Chapters 1-7


November 21
A Split Second by Janae Marks
Discuss Chapters 8-18

December 5

A Split Second by Janae Marks

Discuss Chapters 19-epiloge