We are excited to announce a new program for boys at the Pleasant Grove City Library. It is called Book Bash for Boys. It will coincide with our Great Reads for Girls. These book groups are for boys and girls who are ages 8-16 along with their parent or other caring adult. We encourage the kids and their parent to read the featured book each month and then join us for lively discussion, activities, and refreshments. We are looking forward to all of our plans and ideas for these fun book groups. We have been doing the Great Reads for Girls for three years and have often been asked to do something for boys so we are changing things up a bit this year. We will have two special months where the boys and girls come together and then we will alternate on the other months.
The schedule goes like this:
September - Combined Book Bash for Boys and Great Reads for Girls (The Wednesday Wars by Gary Schmidt)
October - Book Bash for Boys (Coraline by Neil Gaiman with special guest Carl Sederholm)
November - Great Reads for Girls (A Crooked Kind of Perfect by Linda Urban)
January - Book Bash for Boys (Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko)
February - Great Reads for Girls (Flipped by Wendelin Van Draanen)
March - Book Bash for Boys (Shredderman: Secret Identity by Wendelin Van Draanen)
April - Great Reads for Girls (A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett)
May - Combined Book Bash for Boys and Great Reads for Girls (Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix)
The book groups will be held on the second Wednesday night of each month at 7 p.m.
Our first book discussion and activity for this year will be held on September 14, 2011 at 7 p.m. in the basement at the library. The featured book will be Wednesday Wars by Gary Schmidt.
In Wednesday Wars Holling Hoodhood is really in for it.He’s just started seventh grade with Mrs. Baker, a teacher he knows is out to get him. Why else would she make him read Shakespeare . . . outside of class? The year is 1967, and everyone has bigger things than homework to worry about. There’s Vietnam for one thing, and then there’s the family business. As far as Holling’s father is concerned, nothing is more important than the family business. In fact, all of the Hoodhoods must be on their best behavior at all times. The success of Hoodhood and Associates depends on it. But how can Holling stay out of trouble when he has Mrs. Baker to contend with?
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| Gary D Schmidt |
Gary Schmidt is a professor of English at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He received both a Newbery Honor and a Printz Honor for Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy and a Newbery Honor for The Wednesday Wars. He lives with his family on a 150-year-old farm in Alto, Michigan, where he splits wood, plants gardens, writes, and feeds the wild cats that drop by.
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