Tween Book Group

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Book Group

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Tweens
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Do you like reading? Do you like talking about books? Join our book group for friendly, lively discussions.

Books provided by La Center Casinos Charitable Foundation to the first 10 to sign up.

9/5 - At our first meeting we will hand out the first book Magic Marks the Spot, then we will decorate a book bag to keep our books in!

10/3 - Magic Marks the Spot by Caroline Carlson - When Hilary Westfield escapes Miss Pim's finishing school to join a misfit pirate crew, she embarks on an unexpectedly magical swashbuckling, plank-walking, searfaring journey.

11/7 - Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan - Twelve-year-old genius and outsider Willow Chance must figure out how to connect with other people and find a surrogate family for herself after her parents are killed in a car accident.

12/5 - The Book of Dares for Lost Friends by Jane Kelley - New York City middle-schooler Val teams up with a strange boy who lives in an even stranger bookshop to save her best friend who has lost her way in this story about universal friendship.

1/2 - The Thing About Jellyfish by Ali Benjamin - Twelve-year-old Suzy Swanson wades through her intense grief over the loss of her best friend by investigating the rare jellyfish she is convinced was responsible for her friend's death.