We’re starting a book group for 4th and 5th graders. Here’s how it will work:

Participants will read 3 books and attend 3 meetings. We’ll read: Andrew Clements’ No Talking, Patricia McKissack’s A Friendship for Today, and Linda Urban’s A Crooked Kind of Perfect. These books are nominees in this year’s California Young Reader Medal competition. Participants will need to read a different book every two weeks. Meetings will be held during lunch/recess in the library. The 4th grade group will meet with 5th grade teacher Carrie Oretsky, librarian Lisa Hobbs, and Crocker parent Deb Collard. The 5th grade group will meet with 4th grade teacher Karen Kucharski, Lisa and parent Victoria Varieur.

If your 4th or 5th grader would like to be involved they should talk to their teacher or Lisa (lisa_a_hobbs@yahoo.com). We’ll take a maximum of 12 students in each group. Books will be provided. This book group will let us test drive the idea of having a book group at school. If it works well, we’ll look into how we might include more students and read a wider variety of books.