BOOK CLUB UPDATE!

Book Club is BACK! Meeting Fridays, May 27, June 17, Aug 12 - check the Events Post for details.

About Summer Book Club:

Welcome to our 2nd annual SuperFriends! Summer Book Club. We will meet over the summer 6/17 and 8/12 to discuss the books selected at our 5/27 meeting. 

For each monthly meeting, we will have two book selections. You may read one or both of the books.  For each selection, I've included links to the book's GoodReads.com page and Amazon.com page, both of which have extensive reader reviews. You may purchase new or used print or e-books or find the book(s) at the library - your preference. Please be prepared to discuss the books at the appropriate meeting.  

We also have a group web site on GoodReads.com.

http://www.goodreads.com/group/invite/48627.superfriends?invite_key=a217b2422090fa57768ec479098fab5c3830a318&utm_medium=email&utm_source=copypastegroup

You can sign in to GoodReads with your Facebook ID and password or make a separate sign in account (free). 

The books were selected by the members who attended the first meeting. Everyone recommended different books, we discussed them, looked them up online, found them in the bookstore, etc., and then voted on them. The following books received the most votes. Please keep in mind that you should only read books approved by your parents.

July meeting has been cancelled.

FOR AUGUST 12th meeting

The Book Thief, Markus Zusak

It’s just a small story really, about among other things: a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist-fighter, and quite a lot of thievery. . . .Narrated by Death, Markus Zusak's groundbreaking new novel is the story of Liesel Meminger, a young foster girl living outside of Munich in Nazi Germany. Liesel scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she discovers something she can't resist- books. Soon she is stealing books from Nazi book-burnings, the mayor's wife's library, wherever they are to be found. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, Liesel learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids, as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19063.The_Book_Thief

http://www.amazon.com/Book-Thief-Markus-Zusak/dp/0375842209/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1306552030&sr=8-1

continue our Adventures of Sherlock Holmes with The Red-Headed League AND The Adventure of the Speckled Band (Sherlock Holmes) Arthur Conan Doyle

read online for free: http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/Arthur_Conan_Doyle/The_Adventures_of_Sherlock_Holmes/

The Original Wizard of Oz, Frank L. Baum

One of the true classics of American literature, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz has stirred the imagination of young and old alike for over four generations. Originally published in 1900, it was the first truly American fairy tale, as Baum crafted a wonderful out of such familiar items as a cornfield scarecrow, a mechanical woodman, and a humbug wizard who used old-fashioned hokum to express that universal theme, "There's no place like home." 

Follow the adventures of young Dorothy Gale and her dog, Toto, as their Kansas house is swept away by a cyclone and they find themselves in a strange land called Oz. Here she meets the Munchkins and joins the Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, and the Cowardly Lion on an unforgettable journey to the Emerald City, where lives the all-powered Wizard of Oz.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/236093.The_Wonderful_Wizard_of_Oz

http://www.amazon.com/Wonderful-Wizard-Oz-Frank-Baum/dp/1613820380/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1306552411&sr=1-1 


Read online for free: http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/L_Frank_Baum/The_Wonderful_Wizard_of_Oz/

Have fun!

Ms. Deb Evans

debsclasses@yahoo.com

http://superfriendsteens.blogspot.com