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February Girls Read/Guys Read

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Did you know that we have two parent/child book clubs every month at the Provo City Library? They are for children ages 9-12 and a caregiver. This month, they will meet February 26 (girls) and February 28 (guys). Preregister is available under the Kids Corner/Program Registration tab on the library website. We have two great books to discuss this month:
Girls
By Richard Peck
Dial Books for Young Readers, 1998. Fiction.

During the Great Depression, Joey and his younger sister Mary Alice take a yearly trip from their home in Chicago to visit their odd Grandma Dowdel and her sleepy small town. The quickly learn that Grandma's life is not so quite after all, and it certainly isn't boring. This episodic novel is told through surprising and hilarious stories that bring one of the greatest characters of children's literature (Grandma Dowdel) to life. This book was the only book selected to receive a Newbery Honor in 1998, meaning it basically came second only to...

Guys


By Louis Sachar
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998. Fiction

This perennial favorite novel won the Newbery Award in 1998 and has remained remarkably popular since. This is the story of Stanley Yelnats, whose whole family has had bad luck his whole life ever since his family was cursed because of his "no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather." Stanley's luck officially runs out when he is sent to a boy's correction camp called Camp Green Lake where there is no lake and the boys are made to dig holes in the desert all day. But as he digs, Stanley discovers more than he bargained for in the hands of a missing buried treasure, an old legend, and his first real friend.



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