Bookshop Tonight!

Bookshop returns tonight at 5:30pm.  We will be discussing Absolutely Almost by Lisa Graff.


Haven't read the book but still want to join? No problem!  There is still space so new members are welcome to come even if they haven't read the book yet. 


At this meeting we will also hand out copies of next months book, Monday February 2nd at 5:30pm we will be discussing The Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell by Chris Colfer. 


Can't make it to the meeting tonight? Starting tomorrow copies of The Land of Stories will be available at the 3rd floor Children's Desk.

Bookshop Starts 01/05/15!

Stop in and pick up your copy of Absolutely Almost by Lisa Graff now! If you don't or can't finish it by our meeting NO WORRIES! Pick up a copy at the 3rd floor Children's Desk and join us at the meeting anyway. At the meeting we'll get introduced, talk about the book (no spoilers for those who haven't finished), talk about the projects we will be doing, do a quick and simply intro project, get the February book and pick out the March title! See you at the meeting!

Bookshop begins Monday January 5th!

Bookshop Returns!

Bookshop will return in January!

We will be discussing Absolutely Almost by Lisa Graff. Copies of this title will be available soon, so check back here for more information as we get ready to re-launch!
For now you can read many great reviews, a summary and view additional resources at Lisa Graff's official website.

Mare's War

Bookshop read the book Mare's War by Tanita S. Davis in February. A pair of sisters are sour about spending the summer on a cross country roadtrip with their unconventional grandmother, Mare. Over the course of the trip, Mare tells her granddaughters about how she ran away from home as a teenager in Louisiana and joined the Women's Army Corps. As she describes the challenges she faced as a woman and an African American in the war, her granddaughter's view of their kooky grandma begins to shift.

Over the course of two sessions, Bookshoppers put together a trailer for the book. Enjoy!

Fun with Scratch

In January we read and discussed the book Harry Sue by Susan Stauffacher.

  Bookshoppers had played around with Scratch, a programming language for kids developed at the MIT Media Lab, in our previous session, and this time they were tasked with making an animation in response to the book. Scratch really gives kids the freedom to create characters and scenes that look and feel the way they want them, and with that comes the hard work of figuring out how to move a character across the screen, or develop a scene that matches ones vision.

Here's Jonah's clever take on the Wizard of Oz theme that runs through Harry Sue.

Life As We Knew It

This month Bookshoppers read Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer, in which the moon gets dunted every-so-slightly closer to earth by a meteor. Choas ensues.

This book is about a disaster, but also about the long, uneventful, difficult, and quieter-than-you'd-think days and weeks that follow a disaster.

After a good discussion (which included a fair share of creepy moon stories and gross medical stories) we began our project.

The bookshoppers used Storybird.com to create storybooks loosely related to Life As We Knew It. Storybird allows users to tell a story using stunning illustrations. The real challenge was concentrating on the text, telling the stories we wanted to tell with our own words and the visuals provided for us. They did a terrific job.

Most of these stories are about the moon in one way or another. All of them are spectacular.

The Moon Journey by Naima

Moon by Jonah

Life As We Knew It by Elliot

Stan's Epic 5-Page Adventure by Kai

Life As We Knew It by Maya