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P/K Book Group

Parent/Kid book group is a monthly book club for kids, ages 7-16, and their grownups. Discussions are held the second Thursday of each month at 4pm and 7pm. Themed snacks provided. Registration encouraged. Attendees may register and pick up a copy of the current month's book from the front desk.

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August

Lightfall: the Girl & the Galdurian

by Tim Probart

For fans of Amulet and middle grade readers who love sweeping worlds like Star Wars, the first book of the Lightfall series introduces Bea and Cad, two unlikely friends who get swept up in an epic quest to save their world from falling into eternal darkness....

September

Willa and the Whale

by Chad & Shelley Morris

When her mother dies, twelve-year-old Willa feels lost and alone except when she connects with things her mom loved about the wonders of the ocean as a marine biologist.

While on a whale-watching excursion with her dad, who is trying to cheer her up after Willa is sent to live with him and his new family, Willa is alone on one side of the boat when she sees a humpback whale. Her awe and wonderment about this massive and beautiful creature turns to shock when the whale communicates with her, introducing herself as Meg and exchanging small talk. Willa asks if they can talk again, and Meg tells her that if she goes to the edge of the shore and calls out to her, she'll reply. Whales, after all, are very social creatures and communicate by sounds that can travel for miles, underwater....

October

13 Witches: Memory Thief

by Jodi Lynn Anderson

Twelve-year-old Rosie Oaks's mom is missing whatever it is that makes mothers love their daughters. All her life, Rosie has known this...and turned to stories for comfort. Then, on the night Rosie decides to throw her stories away forever, an invisible ally helps her discover the Witch Hunter's Guide to the Universe, a book that claims that all of the evil in the world stems from thirteen witches who are unseen...but also unstoppable. One of these witches--the Memory Thief--holds an insidious power to steal our most precious treasures: our memories. And it is this witch who has cursed Rosie's mother...

November

Astrid the Unstoppable

by Maria Parr

Pippi Longstocking meets Heidi meets Anne Shirley in this tale of an irrepressible girl in a mountain village who navigates unexpected changes with warmth and humor.

Speed and self-confidence, that's Astrid's motto. Nicknamed "the little thunderbolt," she loves to spend her days racing down the hillside on her sled, singing loudly as she goes, and visiting Gunnvald, her grumpy, septuagenarian best friend and godfather, who makes hot chocolate from real chocolate bars. She just wishes there were other children to share her hair-raising adventures with. But Astrid's world is about to be turned upside down by two startling arrivals to the village of Glimmerdal: first a new family, then a mysterious, towering woman who everyone seems to know but Astrid. It turns out that Gunnvald has been keeping a big secret from his goddaughter, one that will test their friendship to its limits. Astrid is not too happy about some of these upheavals in Glimmerdal -- but, luckily, she has a plan to set things right.

December

When Stars Are Scattered

by Victoria Jamieson & Omar Mohamed

A National Book Award Finalist, this remarkable graphic novel is about growing up in a refugee camp, as told by a former Somali refugee to the Newbery Honor-winning creator of Roller Girl.

Omar and his younger brother, Hassan, have spent most of their lives in Dadaab, a refugee camp in Kenya. Life is hard there: never enough food, achingly dull, and without access to the medical care Omar knows his nonverbal brother needs. So when Omar has the opportunity to go to school, he knows it might be a chance to change their future . . . but it would also mean leaving his brother, the only family member he has left, every day.

Upcoming P/K Groups
Thu, Oct 12, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Rooms 1&2 (Combined)
Book club for kids and their parents. Includes a book to read and a treat to share.

Thu, Oct 12, 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Rooms 1&2 (Combined)
Book club for kids and their parents. Includes a book to read and a treat to share.

Thu, Nov 09, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Rooms 1&2 (Combined)
Book club for kids and their parents. Includes a book to read and a treat to share.

Thu, Nov 09, 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Rooms 1&2 (Combined)
Book club for kids and their parents. Includes a book to read and a treat to share.

Thu, Dec 14, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Rooms 1&2 (Combined)
Book club for kids and their parents. Includes a book to read and a treat to share.

Thu, Dec 14, 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Rooms 1&2 (Combined)
Book club for kids and their parents. Includes a book to read and a treat to share.