Book+Club

=BOOK CLUB=

The library program hosts two book clubs (5th/7th grades and 6th/8th grades) which meet monthly from September-March during the school day. The book club represents a collaboration with the Chicago Public Library, which provides the books to the students via inter-library loan using the students’ library cards. Students select the books they read as a group from the 20 nominees for the annual Rebecca Caudill Young Readers’ Book Award, Illinois’s Children’s Choice Award. The students vote for their favorites in February.

Learn more about the Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award:

 * Official Rebecca Caudill Award site
 * Information about the 20 nominated titles from “Mackin Book Talk!” >

Grades 5, 6, 7 & 8
Book talks, student selection of books, and check-out of //Out of My Mind// by Sharon M. Draper
 * Meeting 1**
 * Monday, November 19**

Discussion and return of //Out of My Mind//; check out of //The Graveyard Book// by Neil Gaiman
 * Meeting 2**
 * Monday, December 10**

Discussion and return of //The Graveyard Book//; check out of //Ninth Ward// by Jewell Parker Rhodes
 * Meeting 3**
 * Monday, January 7**

Discussion and return of //Ninth Ward//; Rebecca Caudill Award VOTING; check out of //The Strange Case of Origami Yoda// by Tom Angleberger
 * Meeting 4**
 * Monday, February 4**

Discussion and return of //The Strange Case of Origami Yoda//; check out of //One Crazy Summer// by Rita Williams-Garcia
 * Meeting 5**
 * Monday, March 4**

Discussion and return of //One Crazy Summer//
 * Meeting 6**
 * Monday, April 1**