Book Club

MONDAY (Jan. 16, 23, 30, Feb. 6, 13, 20, 27)

By sixth grade, Miranda and her best friend, Sal, know how to navigate their New York City neighborhood. They know where it's safe to go, and they know who to avoid. Like the crazy guy on the corner.

TUESDAY (Jan. 17, 24, 31, Feb. 7, 14, 21, 28)

AFTER-SCHOOL BOOK CLUB
WEDNESDAY (Jan 18, 25, Feb. 1, 8, 15, 22, 29)

AFTER-SCHOOL BOOK CLUB
THURSDAY (Jan. 19, 26, Feb. 2, 9, 16, 23, Mar. 1)

I'll admit it: I'm a cheesy mouse from time to time. I'm a romantic! That''s why Valentine's Day is one of my favorite holidays. This year I had a date with a very special rodent?Patty Spring! But then I got a call from my private investigator friend. He had a mystery to solve, and needed my help. Holey cheese, what was a gentlemouse to do?

“The Birchbark House” by Louise Erdrich was chosen for the 2010 Summer Book Club. It spotlights the life of Omakayas, a young Ojibwe girl of seven winters living in the village of LaPointe on an island in Lake Superior around 1849. She lives with her parents, grandmother, older sister, and two younger brothers. The book explores clans, natural medicines, hunting and gathering food, the right to name people with special meanings, legends, preserving land to live on, membership within tribes, and the devastation of smallpox, with some similarities to our own Mohawk stories and traditions.

Summer Book Club 2009

The summer book club is presently full with 24 children ranging in age from 5 to 11 years. There are 12 children in each group (Monday/Wednesday & Tuesday/Thursday). The group starts at 9:00 a.m. and ends at 12:00 p.m. We are reading Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell. Two chapters are read per session which allows for explanations, questions to be asked and raised, and for the children to obtain full understanding of the content.