Reading Rocks! Book Club

Meet on the second Tuesday of the month

Join us monthly to discuss books with strong female characters

Grant R. Brimhall Library Children's Program Room

REGISTRATION REQUIRED: www.tolibrary.org/readingrocks

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December 10, 2024

The green glass sea

by Ellen Klages

Dewey Kerrigan, while living with her scientist father who is working on a top secret government program, has no idea how the Manhattan Project will change the world as she befriends an aspiring artist who is a misfit just like her. Reprint.

January 14, 2025

Guardians of the Taiga

by Hinojosa, Stacy

The creator of the mega-popular YouTube series Dogcraft presents a debut entry in a Minecraft-inspired fantasy series about a girl raised by a pack of wolves who uses her wolf skills to protect the forest and its animals from threatening changes.

February 11, 2025

It ain't so awful, falafel

by Dumas, Firoozeh

Eleven-year-old Zomorod, originally from Iran, tells her story of growing up Iranian in Southern California during the Iranian Revolution and hostage crisis of the late 1970s

March 11, 2025

Roll with it

by Sumner, Jamie

Twelve-year-old Ellie, who has cerebral palsy, finds her life transformed when she moves with her mother to small-town Oklahoma to help care for her grandfather, who has Alzheimer's Disease

April 8, 2025

Totally psychic

by Martin, Brigid

"Paloma Ferrer is psychic. In fact, everyone in her family line has "the gift." Now that Paloma has come into her powers, she dreams of becoming a famous medium to celebrities, just like her beloved grandma. When Paloma's parents move them from Miami to Los Angeles, she hatches a plan to get her career as a medium up and running. But when a reading gone awry leaves Paloma in a sticky situation with a new friend, she'll need more than a crystal ball to find her way out of this mess"

May 13, 2025

Iceberg

by Nielsen, Jennifer A.

Traveling all alone aboard the Titanic, stowaway and aspiring journalist Hazel Rothbury secretly explores the opulent ship with the help of a porter and a sweet first-class passenger until disaster strikes, forcing Hazel to fight to save her friends and herself. Simultaneous eBook.

READING ROCKS! BOOK CLUB

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Grades 6 - 8

Meet on the second Tuesday of the month, 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm

 Grant R. Brimhall Library Children's Program Room

REGISTRATION REQUIRED: www.tolibrary.org/readingrocks

December 10, 2024

The Pear affair

by Judith Eagle

Arriving in Paris to find her beloved old au pair Perrine—Pear—who has gone missing, Penelope enters the darkest, most mysterious parts of the city with the help of a savvy bellboy, where she stumbles upon a sinister plot.

January 14, 2025

Wild bird

by Zahler, Diane

Set in 14th-century Norway during a deadly plague, this sweeping adventure follows Rype, an abandoned girl, as she joins a group of strangers on a journey across Europe in order to survive, searching for a brighter future and a place to call home. Simultaneous eBook.

February 11, 2025

Starfish

by Fipps, Lisa

A debut novel-in-verse follows the experiences of a girl who tries to change her behavior when she is bullied for her weight, before a swimming hobby, a kind therapist and an accepting new neighbor help her embrace her true self. Simultaneous eBook

March 11, 2025

Just like that

by Schmidt, Gary D.

"Following the death of her closest friend in summer 1968, Meryl Lee Kowalski goes off to St. Elene's Preparatory Academy for Girls, where she struggles to navigate the venerable boarding school's traditions and a social structure heavily weighted towardstudents from wealthy backgrounds. In a parallel story, Matt Coffin has wound up on the Maine coast near St. Elene's with a pillowcase full of money lifted from the leader of a criminal gang"

April 8, 2025

The last cuentista

by Higuera, Donna Barba

"A girl named Petra Pena, who wanted nothing more than to be a storyteller, like her abuelita. But Petra's world is ending. Earth has been destroyed by a comet, and only a few hundred scientists and their children - among them Petra and her family - havebeen chosen to journey to a new planet. They are the ones who must carry on the human race. Hundreds of years later, Petra wakes to this new planet - and the discovery that she is the only person who remembers Earth. A sinister Collective has taken over the ship during its journey, bent on erasing the sins of humanity's past. They have systematically purged the memories of all aboard - or purged them altogether. Petra alone now carries the stories of our past, and with them, any hope for our future. Can she make them live again? "

May 13, 2025

Fish in a tree

by Hunt, Lynda Mullaly

Hiding the truth about her inability to read from a highly motivated new teacher, Ally eventually discovers that her dyslexia is nothing to be ashamed of and gains new confidence as she finds alternative ways to learn. By the award-winning author of One for the Murphys. Simultaneous eBook.