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HENRY F. SCHRICKER LIBRARY/MEDIA CENTER
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Check out our Book Club Selections!
We're changing how we're doing book club! Instead of having one book at a time, we are now offering a larger selection, so that you can choose the one(s) that interest you the most.
Find Layla - Meg Elison
Realistic fiction about a 14-year-old girl who must take care of herself and her brother in a home that is unfit to live in. She likes to remain unseen, but after relentless bullying, she decides enough is enough.
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Discussion Dates: Friday, Nov. 14 (up to pg. 98) & Tuesday, Nov. 25 (entire book)
American Born Chinese - Gene Luen Chang
Graphic novel about how the legend of the Monkey King helps a Chinese American teen cope with the difficulties of moving to a new school.
Genre: Graphic Novel
Discussion Dates: Friday, Nov. 21 & Thursday, Dec. 4
We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson
Classic gothic horror novella about Merricat, her sister, and her uncle--three survivors of a tragedy, and their lives together in a creepy mansion.
Genre: Gothic
Discussion Dates: Monday, Nov. 18 & Tuesday, Dec. 2
The Afterlife of Holly Chase - Cynthia Hand
This fantasy is a modern re-telling of Dickens's A Christmas Carol, in which Holly is the ghost of Christmas past. Things change, though, when the Scrooge for this Christmas is very different than the rest.
Genre: Fantasy
Discussion Dates: Monday, Dec. 9 & Friday, Dec. 12
Book Club is open to any EHS Student! See Mrs. VanAllen in the Media Center for more information.
Come into the library to see a display of the rest of this school year's Book Club selections!
(Books provided by the RBBSC Foundation Grant, thanks to the generosity of the Wahl Family Charitable Trust.)
See Our Book Club Members!
Are you looking for book recommendations? Do you want to read, but just don't have the motivation? Book Club might be the place for you! We meet during Plus Times on the above provided dates.
See Our Writing Club Members!
Do you enjoy writing stories? Want to become an author or journalist one day? Then join Writing Club! We meet every first and third Friday of the month and occasionally during plus time!
For more information, contact Mrs. VanAllen at nvanallen@rbbschools.net or come see us in the library!
Check Out Our Writing Club!
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| Definition: | (verb) Wear off or die down. |
| Synonyms: | lessen |
| Usage: | The doctor told me that the pain should subside during the night and that I should feel much better by morning. |
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