Club news:
- Fri May 5 meet in PAWS room 2402
- Fri May 12 meet in PAWS room 2402
- Fri May 19 meet in cafeteria courtyard
- book prize given to club member who attended most meetings
- Summer reading ideas: watch this LMC screencast with ideas for getting your hands on books this summer
What we've been reading:
- Staff book club is reading Last Night At the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo
- Genre: historical
- Summary: Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can’t remember exactly when the question took root, but the answer was in full bloom the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing neon sign of a lesbian bar called the Telegraph Club. America in 1954 is not a safe place for two girls to fall in love, especially not in Chinatown. Red-Scare paranoia threatens everyone, including Chinese Americans like Lily. With deportation looming over her father—despite his hard-won citizenship—Lily and Kath risk everything to let their love see the light of day.
- Author shares cool blog posts about how she researched San Francisco, early space scientists, lesbians, male impersonators, and Chinese Americans to write this book.
- Emma asked for suggestions for her little sister: books for a rising 5th graer who has autism
- A Wrinkle In Time by Madeline L'Engle
- Percy Jackson series has a character with AHDH
- Anything But Typical by Nora Raleigh Baskin
- Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys
- Genre: historical
- Summary: World War II is drawing to a close in East Prussia and thousands of refugees are on a desperate trek toward freedom, many with something to hide. Among them are Joana, Emilia, and Florian, whose paths converge en route to the ship that promises salvation, the Wilhelm Gustloff. Forced by circumstance to unite, the three find their strength, courage, and trust in each other tested with each step closer to safety. Just when it seems freedom is within their grasp, tragedy strikes. Not country, nor culture, nor status matter as all ten thousand people—adults and children alike—aboard must fight for the same thing: survival. Told in alternating points of view and perfect for fans of Anthony Doerr's Pulitzer Prize-winning All the Light We Cannot See, Erik Larson's Dead Wake, and Elizabeth Wein's Printz Honor Book Code Name Verity, this masterful work of historical fiction is inspired by the real-life tragedy that was the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff—the greatest maritime disaster in history.
- Sophia *wins* Book Club today for finishing reading this book while at book club! Percy awards Sophia a badge, and Mrs. Caldicott said she gets double points.