Club news:
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THANK YOU Emma N and folx for the generous donation of 4 boxes of hot chocolate mix!
- Today (Fri Dec 1) is the LAST day to order Starbooks Book Club insulated tumber
- $18 on the school webstore
- Book Club sponsors will have a few extra
- After our current supply of paper cups runs out, we will go green and not use disposible goods. Bring your Starbooks tumber or another cup for hot chocolate
- Little Free Library plans are in the works! Stay tuned for news about a book drive to fill it.
- Future Book Club activities:
- Books and Ladders game
- Banned Books puzzle
- "It's really just our Lit curriculum!"
- "Explain your outrage!"
- "To establish that [banning books] is bad you have to acknolwedge the thing exists."
What we've been reading:
- Mrs. Caldicott unboxed 14 new books and shared quickly about each book -- look for these new titles on the LMC shelves very soon!
- All Our Hidden Gifts by Caroline O'Donoghue
- Genre: supernatural
- Summary: Maeve's strangely astute tarot readings make her the talk of the school, until a classmate draws a chilling and unfamiliar card - and then disappears. After Maeve finds a pack of tarot cards while cleaning out a closet during her in-school suspension, she quickly becomes the most sought-after diviner at St. Bernadette's Catholic school. But when Maeve's ex-best friend, Lily, draws an unsettling card called The Housekeeper that Maeve has never seen before, the session devolves into a heated argument that ends with Maeve wishing aloud that Lily would disappear. When Lily isn't at school the next Monday, Maeve learns her ex-friend has vanished without a trace. Shunned by her classmates and struggling to preserve a fledgling romance with Lily's gender-fluid sibling, Roe, Maeve must dig deep into her connection with the cards to search for clues the police cannot find - even if they lead to the terrifying Housekeeper herself. Set in an Irish town where the church's tight hold has loosened and new freedoms are trying to take root, this sharply contemporary story is witty, gripping, and tinged with mysticism.
- ? Trials of the Gods by Rick Riordan
- Sphia summed up a plot line: "Do this quest and I'll throw in a recommendation letter to college." "She said, "I'd take that bribe."