Every month we have two book clubs for kids here at the Provo City Library! These book clubs are just for kids ages 9-12 and a caregiver. This month, our Girls Read book club will meet February 24 and our Guys Read book club will meet February 26. You can register now, using the library's online calendar!
Girls Read is reading:
By Jacqueline Woodson
New York: Nancy Paulsen Books, 2014. Memoir/poetry. 336 pgs.
As a child, Jacqueline Woodson never felt settled at home. In the 1960s and 1970s, she lived in South Carolina and in New York City, in the midst of the Civil Rights movement and with the shadow of Jim Crow laws looming overhead. As she searches to find herself, Jacqueline finds her voice as a writer and she begins to tell stories that will shape her future. Told entirely in verse, this memoir is a touching and thoughtful story about growing up and finding your way. A National Book Award Winner, Newbery Honoree, and Coretta Scott King Award winner, this unique book of poetry reveals Jacqueline Woodson's passion for storytelling by telling her own story.
Guys Read is reading:
By Jerry Craft
New York: Harper, 2019. Comic. 249 pgs.
Jordan Banks knows that 7th Grade is going to be a big change for him. He'll be the new kid at a prestigious private school - a place where his classmates have butlers and drivers and his homeroom teacher keeps calling the black students by the wrong name because she can't tell them apart. As one of only a handful of Black students at school, Jordan definitely stands out and faces microaggressions and sometimes overt racism. In the midst of it all, he also finds a new group of friends and a new sense of confidence. In 2020, New Kid was the first graphic novel to win the Newbery medal and has become one of the most important kids' graphic novels.
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