YASL Book Club Information
Throughout the year, YASL facilitates book clubs to help our members discuss some of the most popular new books for children and young adults. These events are a great opportunity to learn more about trends in youth literature, to cover some reading requirements for SI 624 (Media for Children and Young Adults), or to take a break from academic course work to read something for fun! If you have any ideas for future book club titles, feel free to contact us!
October Book Club - ceLEBRATING baNNED bOOKS week
Tuesday, October 14th (during study break) at 5:30 p.m., BAR LOUIE (MAP)
For the October book club, we'll be celebrating Banned Books Week, which takes place in 2014 from September 21 to 27. (Check out the ALA's Banned Books Week section of its website for more information). This year's theme is comic books, but any book that has been banned would be a great selection for October's book club! To check out some lists of frequently banned books, head over to the ALA's website or the official Banned Books Week website.
January BOOK Club - The Higher Power of Lucky
January 19, 2015 at noon, Blue tractor
For the January book club, we'll be reading The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron. We have the Book-Club-To-Go checked out from AADL, so if you're interested in obtaining a copy, please let Krista ([email protected]) know and we'll get you one!
2013-2014 book club selections
If you're curious about what books we've read in the past, check out our list of past book club selections.
December 2013
Alvin Ho: Allergic to girls, school, and other scary things
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April 2014
Escape from mr. lemoncello's library
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2012-2013 Book Club Selections
DECEMBER 2012 |
Publisher's Weekly, December 12, 2011:
"Adult author Wright, in her first book for children, presents a hard-hitting and highly personal view of the Wilmington race riots of 1898 through 11-year-old narrator Moses. Though the story initially meanders, the pace builds as Wright establishes the Wilmington, N.C., setting, with its large black middle class, and Moses’s family life, which is primarily influenced by his slave-born grandmother, “Boo Nanny,” and his Howard University–educated father, an alderman and a reporter at the Wilmington Daily Record, “the only Negro daily in the South.” Wright sketches a nuanced view of racial tension and inequality from Moses’s sheltered yet optimistic perspective, such as a bike shop’s slogan contest that is only open to white children, or the farmer who fires Moses after he helps another okra picker determine his true pay. A Daily Record editorial ignites racial backlash and catalyzes a series of attacks on hard-won rights, thrusting Moses and his father into the violence of the riots. This thought-provoking novel and its memorable cast offer an unflinching and fresh take on race relations, injustice, and a fascinating, little-known chapter of history." |
October 2012
Wonder
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