Do you love to read?  Yes?!!

Do you love to talk about the books you’ve read?  Yes?!

Join the Proctor School MCBA Book Club!!

                                           

Here are the details:

• ·         Each month we will be reading one of the books on the Massachusetts Children’s Book Award nominee list.  As you know, you have to read at least 5 titles on the list before April to vote.  For more info on the MCBA, visit https://www.salemstate.edu/mcba/
• ·         The club will meet up twice a month.  The first time, we will talk about the first few chapters of the book, our first impressions, questions, connections, etc. The next time we meet will be a wrap up session to talk about how the book ended, final impressions, thoughts, critiques, thumbs up or thumbs down. 
• ·         Related activities will be done during our book club meeting related to the theme of the book.  Activities may be connected to art, music, science, etc.
• ·         If you have already read the book for the month, you are still welcome to join us and be part of the group…just no spoilers J
• ·         Finally, you can choose which months you would like to participate.  Join the months that interest you or take a risk and read a book/genre that you don’t think you’ll like….you just might surprise yourself! 

I hope you’ll join me and chat about one of my favorite things….books with many of my favorite people…Proctor readers! 

Any questions?  Come and see me in the library or email me at kdefrank@topsfieldps.org

                                                                                               

Mrs. DeFrank

November’s Proctor Book Club Selection

 (see meeting dates below)

Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 

by Kate DiCamillo

It begins, as the best superhero stories do, with a tragic accident that has unexpected consequences. The squirrel never saw the vacuum cleaner coming, but self-described cynic Flora Belle Buckman, who has read every issue of the comic book Terrible Things Can Happen to You!, is the just the right person to step in and save him. What neither can predict is that Ulysses (the squirrel) has been born anew, with powers of strength, flight, and misspelled poetry—and that Flora will be changed too, as she discovers the possibility of hope and the promise of a capacious heart. From #1 New York Times best-selling author Kate DiCamillo comes a laugh-out-loud story filled with eccentric, endearing characters and featuring an exciting new format—a novel interspersed with comic-style graphic sequences and full-page illustrations, all rendered in black-and-white by up-and-coming artist K. G. Campbell. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16052012-flora-and-ulysses

Meeting Dates/Times

Meeting 1: Tuesday, November 9^th 8:00-8:45am

***Come with first 12 chapters read already…they are very short chapters!!***

Meeting 2: Wednesday, November 25^th 8:00-8:45am

If you would like to be part of the November Book Club, either fill out the bottom of this paper and leave it in the library or email Mrs. DeFrank kdefrank@topsfieldps.org

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I’d like to be part of the November Book Club!  _________________________(name)

I’ll read the first (very short) chapters of the book before we meet on 11/9/15 at 8:00am in the library.