Book+Club


 * If you are running a successful book club, share your ideas here: **

How do you get enough copies? Do you check the books out and use them again, or give them away? What meeting time works best? Generic Questions to use to discuss books.
 * Student Book Club **

From NCTE

Newbery Club Junior Library Guild Four Ways to Build a Better Book Club

Ideas from @SaraAnnStinson at CSLA18
 * Put the Teens in Charge
 * Make choosing the books an event
 * emphasize that they choose in all your promotion materials
 * Give options to choose from: New, Classics, Hot Topics
 * Use Remind 101 or Instagram to post book club times
 * https://www.getepic.com/

A great back to school idea to kick off your book club for the year and discover potential new members. Pick a lunch time, and invite faculty and or students to bring and share their favorite book they read over the summer. They can loan or swap their copy. If they checked out the book from a public library, consider adding it to your acquisitions list, or see if you have a copy to loan out to interested people.
 * Summer Reading Social **

Group books in bundles of 3-4 books based on a theme or series. Allow students to check them out over the summer. Meet in May to preview the options and get parent permission slips and contracts to return the books. Meet in September to return the books and discuss what was read. Maybe choose series in paperback you can get from Scholastic Book fairs and process minimally so you can be prepared to say goodbye to them. Could also work with older series or books you are ready to replace that you won't be devastated by their destruction or loss. Use Book Bundles by Erica Segraves and Gigi Yang, librarians at Mamie Doud Public library in Broomfield, CO
 * Summer Series Reading Club **

Use your book fair credit to purchase enough books for your book club to read. Even if they don't have time to read the book, they can come and listen to the discussion so they can booktalk it to their students and add the book to their classroom library. I do an easy lunch where I bring plain salad, and everyone brings an addition such as dressing, croutons, cheese, etc. I also offer to pick up pizza if enough people contribute ($5 at Little Caesars).
 * Faculty Book Club **

I started a faculty book shelf in the lounge and register each book on Bookcrossing.com. I e-mail new additions to the shelf once per month to the faculty with a short description. These are usually books I read with my adult book club outside school staff. Interested faculty are invited to read the book and pass it along to someone else. This allows for multiple people to read the book, but not at the same time. Readers can log their comments on bookcrossing.com and see who else has read the book to discuss it with. here's [|My Bookshelf on Bookcrossing]
 * One book Book Club **

Twilight book club: One teacher runs a Twilight book club that meets every week. I can't believe they can talk about it every week. She has tried to get them to try other books, but they have resisted! Another school I work at has a Harry Potter Book Club. Other ideas: Romance Book Club, Banned Books Book Club, Newbery Club.
 * Themed Book Club **

When I started a book club last year, I told everyone that later on we’d pick books as a group, but to start off we were going to read the CYRM nominees. This was good because it gave us some structure, CYRM had some discussion ideas on their webpage, and they are “good” books so in general most the kids enjoyed all the books. It was a good way to start, I’d recommend it! - Darla
 * Middle School Book Clubs compiled by Judy Egan **

** Try Book Club in a Box ** It is a program run by California for the Book out of U.C.L.A They have 2 groups of books that I did with my 7th & 8th graders. You can look them up on line for program details. They send 10 of each title, with lesson plans and program ideas, book marks and posters. It is FREE :) You do need to return the books when you are finished with them. I bought 5 more of each title for my library which allowed 15 students at a time reading the books.

Sharon Mellinger, Rancho Pico Jr. High, Stevenson Ranch, Ca

**Virtual Book Club** Consider virtual book clubs with a variety of titles being discussed at any given time.

I have a 5th/6th book club and we don’t all read the same book. We meet once every two weeks at lunch time and kids share whatever it is they are reading or have read. It gives the other kids ideas for new reads - Meredith

These ideas were posted to CALIBK12 9/10

**Multicultural Book Club** from Santa Ana Unified School District:

Latin America & Spain:  Parrot in the Oven  Afterlife (Gary Soto)  Breaking Through (Mexico)  The Power and the Glory (Graham Greene) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> Don Quixote (Cervantes) *very long

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> Middle East: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> Kite Runner <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> Three Cups of Tea (Pakistan) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> Sunrise over Fallujah <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> A Thousand Splendid Suns

Asia: The Joy Luck Club The Kitchen God’s Wife Picture Bride Farewell to Manzanaar A Long Walk to Water by Linday Sue Park

Africa: Chanda’s Wars Things Fall Apart, Ant Hills of the Savannnah, Arrow of God (Chinua Achebe) Little Bee*graphic; need parents permission Long Walk to Freedom (Nelson Mandela) Frederick Douglass’ Autobiography (there are three of them) Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Harrier Beecher Stowe)

Europe: Book Thief (Germany) Brothers Karamazov (Dostoevsky; Russia) *very long Anna Karenina (Tolstoy; Russia) *very long Crime and Punishment (Dostoevsky; Russia) *very long Dubliners (Joyce; Ireland) Ulysses (Joyce; Ireland) *very long Between Shades of Gray Salt to the Sea (Ruta Sepetys)

Africa
 * Kaffir Boy ||
 * Waiting for the Rain ||
 * Out of Africa ||
 * Long Way Gone (graphic) ||
 * Going Solo ||
 * Chanda’s Wars

Chanda’s Secrets || Asia Europe The Middle East
 * Tree Shaker: Story of Nelson Mandella ||
 * The Baboon King ||
 * Little Soldier ||
 * Over a Thousand Hills I Walk with You ||
 * Bulu African Wonder Dog ||
 * Angola Promises and Lies ||
 * South Africa Troubled Land ||
 * After Apartheid: The Future of South Africa ||
 * A Long Walk to Water ||
 * The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency ||
 * The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind ||
 * Inside Out and Back Again ||
 * Red Scarf Girl ||
 * Farewell to Manzanar ||
 * The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down ||
 * Ties that Bind, Ties that Break ||
 * Dog Tag Summer ||
 * Revolution is Not a Dinner Party ||
 * Sold ||
 * The Rent Collector ||
 * Never Fall Down ||
 * Fallen Angels ||
 * The Girl with the White Flag ||
 * The Girl with the White Flag ||
 * The Boy Who Dared ||
 * Revolution ||
 * Zlata’s Diary ||
 * The Boy in the Striped Pajamas ||
 * Code Name Verity ||
 * Between Shades of Gray ||
 * Crispin the Cross of Lead ||
 * The Diary of Anne Frank ||
 * Book Thief ||
 * Postcards from No Man’s Land ||
 * A Time of Miracles ||
 * The Cure ||
 * Leviathan ||
 * Thura’s Diary: My Life in Wartime Iraq ||
 * Salt to the Sea ||
 * The Hundred Foot Journey ||
 * The Things a Brother Knows ||
 * Veil of Roses ||
 * Kabul Beauty School. . . ||
 * Burned Alive. . . ||
 * I am Malala ||
 * Off to War ||
 * Children of War ||
 * Invisible Children ||
 * Sunrise Over Fallujah ||
 * Real Time ||
 * Purple Heart ||
 * Crossing the Line: A Tale of Two Teens in the Gaza Strip ||
 * Sold

from Christine Flores ||