Thanks to everyone who came out on Wednesday for our first Mother Daughter Book Club of 2013-2014 season! 

We voted and our October book is...This Dark Endeavour by Kenneth Oppel.  There are copies on my desk at Masonville if you didn't pick up a copy -- so drop by and ask a staff member and they can get you one! 

Our next meeting is October 16, 7 - 8:30 pm when we'll be talking about This Dark Endeavour, making a craft related to the book & having a dark snack!  The perfect spooky October book!

If you'd like to explore Kenneth Oppel's website, there are videos and a sketchbook of Victor Frankenstein featured.   You can also watch the publisher Harper Collins Canada's youtube trailer for the book here.

Look forward to seeing you all next visit.  If you have any questions, or have a friend who'd like to join please feel free to email me at linda.bussiere@lpl.london.on.ca or call the Masonville branch at 519-660-4646.

Remember you can also send me any suggestions for titles for the winter and spring!

Happy reading!

Linda the Librarian

New Mother Daughter Book Club: Wed. Sept. 25, 7 pm: REGISTER now!

Hope everyone had a great summer!  It was wonderful to carry on the conversation about books over the summer with all of you who participated in the Get Caught Reading program.  Congratulations to Sofia M. for winning Top Reader at Masonville!

Our Wednesday September 25 meeting will see a whole new group of mothers and daughters & of course some familiar faces!  For our first meeting, please bring a book (or if you don't have it in hand, just think of one in your head!) so we can talk about our favourite reads over the summer.

We'll be making buttons (!) since we ran out of time in the spring with that activity.  We'll also have snacks and juice on hand.  And we'll be planning for what to read this fall and winter.  If you have a title in mind, check out the London Public Library catalogue to see if there are enough copies (12 is ideal, 14 even better) for us to share this book together.

Some ideas I've received so far are listed below.  Please bring your ideas on Wednesday, September 25!  Looking forward to another great season of Mother Daughter Bookclub at Masonville Library!

Cheers,
Linda the Librarian

SUGGESTED TITLES FOR MOTHER DAUGHTER BOOKCLUB 2013-2014
Divergent by Veronica Roth (16 copies but still 80 holds on this one!!!, we'll have to wait)

Wonder by R.J. Palacio (12 copies but all out, but would work for fall/winter at some point)

The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate (14 copies, a few people mentioned this one)

Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library by Chris Grabenstein (13 copies) whimsical fun story
and a related older title:
Alcatraz versus the Evil Librarians by Brandon Sanderson (12 copies - fantasy (a bag of magic sand) adventure (a boy and his grandpa vs evil librarians!) sounds like a different read!

This Dark Endeavour: The apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein by Kenneth Oppel (15 copies, featured in the library's Teen Scene e-newsletter for September 2013.

Wicked Girls: a novel of the Salem Witch trials by Stephanie Hemphill  (only 4 copies in the system but sounds great!)

The Whole Truth by Kit Pearson (only 6 copies but I could see about getting more - this was a fav of several people!)

My Name is Parvana by Deborah Ellis (16 copies, 3rd of the Breadwinner Trilogy)

The Giver by Lois Lowry  There are 20 + copies of this award winner, so a good possibility.

Strange Fatality: Battle of Stoney Creek by James Elliott (sadly only 2 copies of this recommended title by a mom)

Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater (14 copies,  if you like wolves and the supernatural and metamorphosis you might like this one!)