Summer is here and studies show over and over again that reading is a marker for future success. Make the transition back to school next fall easier and more fun for everybody by signing your young readers up for one of our Summer Book Clubs. We will meet on Wednesdays, June 10th, 17th and 24th and July 8th and 15th at either 6 or 7 pm. Each group will meet for 55 minutes at the store. The cost is $50 per child and must be paid when you sign up to secure a spot. You can purchase the summer reading books at the store with a 10% discount on paperbacks, and 20% on hardbacks, although book purchase is not required. We have a wonderful combination of certified teachers and enthusiastic staff to lead the groups. Join us!

 

PREK/K, Allison Bowthorpe, 6:00 PM
Home, Caron Ellis
Fly!, Karl Newsom Edwards
The Bus is for Us!, Michael Rosen
What This Story Needs is a Pig in a Wig, Emma L. Virjan
Up in the Garden Down in the Dirt, Kate Messner

 

1st/2nd Grades, Brynn Grover, 6:00 PM
National Geographic Readers: Meteors/Prehistoric Mammals, Melissa Stewart/ Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld
Grandma in Blue with a Red Hat, Scott Menchin
Big Ideas of Buster Bickles, Dave  Wasson
Poppy the Pirate Dog and the Missing Treasure, Lis Kessler
Trombone Shorty, Troy Andrews

 

3rd/4th Grades, Sue Patillo, 6:00 PM
Bird & Squirrel on Ice, James Burks
Changes: A Child’s First Collection of Poetry, Charlotte Zolotov
Apollo 13 (Totally True Adventures), Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld
Oliver and the Seawigs by Phillip Reeve
Cody and the  Fountain of Happiness, Tricia Springstubb

5th/6th Grades, Sarah Button, 7:00 PM
Circus Mirandus, Cassie Beasley
Duke, Kirby Larson
Book Scavenger, Jennifer Chambliss Bertram
Echo, Pam Munoz Ryan
People of the Plague (Horrors of History), T. Neill Anderson

 

YA, Marianne Jenkins, 7:00 PM
Stay Where You are and Then Leave, John Boyne
Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom, Lynda Blackmon Lowery
Steelheart, Brandon Sanderson
Vango, Timothy De Formbelle
Mosquitoland, David Arnold