Remember this is the last few days to VOTE for your favorite book nominated for the 2022 Illinois Teen Choice Award. Students who vote are eligible to win a FREE copy of any of the nominated titles. Already, about 5 Book Club members have gotten their FREE books.
Share your love of reading with younger students as we join Hawthorn School District 73 in running K-8 books discussion groups
4-5 p.m. Fri Mar 4 at Hawthorn Middle School North
Ms. Tolva will drive an activity bus for anyone who needs transportation
Meet in front of school at 3:40 p.m.
Thank you to Book Club members who already said they would help out with these grade levels/titles:
Your responsibility would be to join the adult in each room to lead a book discussion about the book. Encourage the younger students to speak up about their favorite/least favorite parts of the book. What personal connections did they make with the book?
Also ask about what other books they like to read? Share your reading journey, too!
Summary: Galaxy "Alex" Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale's freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school early and into a world of shady drug-dealer boyfriends, dead-end jobs, and much, much worse. In fact, by age twenty, she is the sole survivor of a horrific, unsolved multiple homicide. Some might say she's thrown her life away. But at her hospital bed, Alex is offered a second chance: to attend one of the world's most prestigious universities on a full ride. What's the catch, and why her? Still searching for answers, Alex arrives in New Haven tasked by her mysterious benefactors with monitoring the activities of Yale's secret societies. Their eight windowless "tombs" are the well-known haunts of the rich and powerful, from high-ranking politicos to Wall Street's biggest players. But their occult activities are more sinister and more extraordinary than any paranoid imagination might conceive. They tamper with forbidden magic. They raise the dead. And, sometimes, they prey on the living.
