Tween Book Club - Spring 2023
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March 2nd Selection - Clean Getaway by Nic Stone
For the life of him, William "Scoob" Lamar can't seem to stay out of trouble--and now the run-ins at school have led to lockdown at home. So when G'ma, Scoob's favorite person on Earth, asks him to go on an impromptu road trip, he's in the RV faster than he can say FREEDOM. With G'ma's old maps and a strange pamphlet called the 'Travelers' Green Book' at their side, the pair takes off on a journey down G'ma's memory lane. But adventure quickly turns to uncertainty: G'ma keeps changing the license plate, dodging Scoob's questions, and refusing to check Dad's voice mails. And the farther they go, the more Scoob realizes that the world hasn't always been a welcoming place for kids like him, and things aren't always what they seem--G'ma included.
- eBook (first come, first serve) - https://idl.overdrive.com/media/4837096
- Audiobook (first come, first serve) - https://idl.overdrive.com/media/4788140
April 6th Selection - When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
Shortly after a fall-out with her best friend, sixth grader Miranda starts receiving mysterious notes, and she doesn’t know what to do. The notes tell her that she must write a letter—a true story, and that she can’t share her mission with anyone. It would be easy to ignore the strange messages, except that whoever is leaving them has an uncanny ability to predict the future. If that is the case, then Miranda has a big problem—because the notes tell her that someone is going to die, and she might be too late to stop it. *A Newbery Medal Winner
- eBook (first come, first serve) - https://idl.overdrive.com/media/199821
- Audiobook (first come, first serve) - https://idl.overdrive.com/media/207764
May 4th Selection - Attack of the Black Rectangles by A.S. King
When Mac first opens his classroom copy of Jane Yolen's The Devil’s Arithmetic and finds some words blacked out, he thinks it must be a mistake. But then when he and his friends discover what the missing words are, he's outraged. Someone in his school is trying to prevent kids from reading the full story. But who? Even though his unreliable dad tells him to not get so emotional about a book (or anything else), Mac has been raised by his mom and grandad to call out things that are wrong. He and his friends head to the principal's office to protest the censorship... but her response doesn't take them seriously. So many adults want Mac to keep his words to himself. Mac's about to see the power of letting them out.
- Audiobook (always available) - https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/15348738
- eBook (first come, first serve) - https://idl.overdrive.com/idl-westfieldwashington/content/media/8265803
- Audiobook (first come, first serve) - https://idl.overdrive.com/idl-westfieldwashington/content/media/9113103
Followed by Tween Book Club - Summer 2023