Thank you so much for a wonderful time reading, discussing, crafting and snacking! Our last book club was great fun - The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin.
It was all about the "game". We played a "memory" game with objects representing some of the characters in Ellen Raskin's The Westing Game - congrats to Emily, who recalled all 10 objects correctly and quickest -- and her mom Michelle who was a very close 2nd! We played "Who Am I?" trying to guess which of the heirs we were through questioning! Some people really knew the book well and only needed one clue to correctly guess!
Thanks too to Debora and Sofia for bringing out a friend - we hope to see Paisley and her mom in September -- as well as ALL of you!
Registration begins Wednesday, Sept 4. Our first session will be Wednesday, September 25. Bring along a FAVORITE book from your summer reading -- and come prepared to tell us all about it and why we should read it too!
We had so much fun button-making we'll bring back the button-maker for the September 25 meeting! Snacks too of course! Suggestions? Post them here! Reading suggestions welcome too of course!
Don't forget that we'll be reading and talking about what we read all summer at London Public Library. If you're between 11 and 17 years of age you can join the Get Caught Reading challenge! Sign up at your library location starting Saturday, June 22. Drop by daily or weekly to tell us what you're reading -- and log the number of pages you read. Whenever you tell us about your reading, you'll get a ballot for our weekly prize draw!
www.londonpubliclibrary.ca/teens
Happy Summer Reading!
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Saturday, May 11, 2013
Our sunflowers and nasturtiums have sprouted up, a great reminder of April's meeting when we painted plant pots and planted seeds after discussing The Secret Garden. We had a great book hunt to find books on India (where Mary was born), on the Yorkshire Dales (where the Craven estate is located) and even for books also set in the Yorkshire Dales, including James Herriot's excellent animal stories. Thanks everyone for a great discussion!
May is our final bookclub for this round -- registration for the Mother Daughter Teen Bookclub begins September 4, with the first bookclub taking place on Wednesday, September 25. The rest of 2013 will see us meeting on the 3rd Wednesday of the month (Oct. 16, Nov. 20, no meeting in Dec).
May is Bring A Friend to Book Club! So if you have a friend that is going to be 12 years old in September 2013, and interested in joining, please bring them along on Wednesday, May 15th! We'll be having a special book club -- making BUTTONS! These are pin-back buttons and mothers and daughters can design their own using recycled materials including old magazines, old books, scrapbooking paper, stickers and more!
THE WESTING GAME: We'll of course discuss Ellen Raskin's The Westing Game, winner of the Newbery in 1979. So many interesting characters to discuss! Turtle, Mr. Hoo, J.J. Ford, Theo and Chris Theodorakis, Otis Amber! And who was responsible for robbing Mr. Westing of his life? A great mystery and so many clues!
You can watch a movie trailer of the 1997 Get A Clue movie, based on The Westing Game: http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi3131375897/
You can learn more about the author Ellen Raskin here -- in fact there's a connection to our runner book from February (we were deciding between From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler and A Wrinkle in Time). Ellen Raskin was a graphic designer and illustrator -- in fact, she was the illustrator of the first edition of A Wrinkle in Time!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Raskin
Finally, can't remember all the characters playing the Westing Game? You can use this handy guide in the Wikipedia entry to prompt your memory! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Westing_Game
Look forward to discussing this very witty mystery with you all, and sharing snacks and crafts next week!
May is our final bookclub for this round -- registration for the Mother Daughter Teen Bookclub begins September 4, with the first bookclub taking place on Wednesday, September 25. The rest of 2013 will see us meeting on the 3rd Wednesday of the month (Oct. 16, Nov. 20, no meeting in Dec).
May is Bring A Friend to Book Club! So if you have a friend that is going to be 12 years old in September 2013, and interested in joining, please bring them along on Wednesday, May 15th! We'll be having a special book club -- making BUTTONS! These are pin-back buttons and mothers and daughters can design their own using recycled materials including old magazines, old books, scrapbooking paper, stickers and more!
THE WESTING GAME: We'll of course discuss Ellen Raskin's The Westing Game, winner of the Newbery in 1979. So many interesting characters to discuss! Turtle, Mr. Hoo, J.J. Ford, Theo and Chris Theodorakis, Otis Amber! And who was responsible for robbing Mr. Westing of his life? A great mystery and so many clues!
You can watch a movie trailer of the 1997 Get A Clue movie, based on The Westing Game: http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi3131375897/
You can learn more about the author Ellen Raskin here -- in fact there's a connection to our runner book from February (we were deciding between From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler and A Wrinkle in Time). Ellen Raskin was a graphic designer and illustrator -- in fact, she was the illustrator of the first edition of A Wrinkle in Time!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Raskin
Finally, can't remember all the characters playing the Westing Game? You can use this handy guide in the Wikipedia entry to prompt your memory! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Westing_Game
Look forward to discussing this very witty mystery with you all, and sharing snacks and crafts next week!
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