We’re back! It’s a new year for Brown Bag Book Club for kids in grades 3 to 5. Bring food in a brown bag and be ready for talking! Drinks and treats will be served, so get your book and join us! Books can be picked up in the Children’s Room. This month we’re reading Jake Drake, Class Clown by Andrew Clements. Don’t forget to register.
Knock, knock. Who’s there?… Read more Brown Bag Book Club (Grades 3-5) Thursday, 1/18/24 at 6 PM
We’re back! It’s a new year for Brown Bag Book Club for kids in grades 3 to 5. Bring food in a brown bag and be ready for talking! Drinks and treats will be served, so get your book and join us! Books can be picked up in the Children’s Room. This month we’re reading Jake Drake, Class Clown by Andrew Clements. Don’t forget to register.
Knock, knock. Who’s there?… Read more 
The book of the month is “Gallant,” by V. E. Schwab.
Everything casts a shadow. Even the world we live in. And as with every shadow, there is a place where it must touch. A seam, where the shadow meets its source.
All Olivia Prior has of her past is her mother’s journal—which seems to unravel into madness. Then, she receives an invitation to come home—to Gallant. Yet when she… 
The book of the month is ‘War Horse’ by Michael Morpurgo.
Separated by war. Tested by battle. Bound by friendship.
During the dark years of World War I, a service horse, named Joey, is purchased by the Army and made to serve the war effort in the embattled nation of France. Amid the chaos of The Great War, his previous owner, 15-year-old Albert, rediscovers the bond they once shared and… 
We meet monthly to discuss a title chosen by the group. Why not join in, take an hour and talk about the book. Hear what others have to say and enjoy the conversations. Books to be discussed are available for loan at the main circulation desk.
For October: Anxious People by Fredrik Backman.
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove comes a charming, poignant… 
The book of the month is ‘A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder’ by Holly Jackson.
The case is closed. Five years ago, schoolgirl Andie Bell was murdered by Sal Singh. The police know he did it. Everyone in town knows he did it.
But having grown up in the same small town that was consumed by the murder, Pippa Fitz-Amobi isn’t so sure. When she chooses the case as the… 
The book of the month is ‘Clap When You Land’ by Elizabeth Acevedo.
In a novel-in-verse that brims with grief and love, National Book Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Acevedo writes about the devastation of loss, the difficulty of forgiveness, and the bittersweet bonds that shape our lives.
Camino Rios lives for the summers when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this time, on… 
The book of the month is ‘A Northern Light’ by Jennifer Donnelly.
Sixteen-year-old Mattie Gokey has big dreams but little hope of seeing them come true. Desperate for money, she takes a job at the Glenmore, where hotel guest Grace Brown entrusts her with the task of burning a secret bundle of letters. But when Grace’s drowned body is fished from the lake, Mattie discovers that the letters could reveal… 
We meet monthly to discuss a title chosen by the group. Why not join in, take an hour and talk about the book. Hear what others have to say and enjoy the conversations. Books to be discussed are available for loan at the main circulation desk. Register here.
For August: Clara and Mr. Tiffany by Susan Vreeland.
It’s 1893, and at the Chicago World’s Fair, Louis Comfort Tiffany makes his…