Book Clubs

AFTER SCHOOL BOOK CLUB

If you like to read and discuss books, and meet new people, this may be the club for you. Completion of an application form is required (this will be online this fall, 2007). Only 20 students will be participating and acceptance will be in the order received. If you return the form after the first twenty, your name will be put on a waiting list. This is for both male and female students in all grades. We meet once a month from September through April. Each month, students will receive a different book to read within the month?s time. We will discuss the book and have a planned activity.

ONE BOOK, ONE FAMILY

Sixth grade teacher, Mrs. Miller and media specialist, Mrs. Eckery host Irving?s One Book-One Family book club. We are able to conduct this club thanks to the generosity of several restaurants, Wells Fargo, and Lee Booksellers.

We meet once a month at Irving in the Media Center from 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Participants include one student and one parent/guardian. Students are given a paperback book a month for parent and student to read together or alone. They may keep the book. At our meeting, we will hold a book discussion and follow with a light meal. Interested persons may complete the application and return it to Mrs. Eckery. (an application will be online this fall, 2007)

READING ADVISORY COUNCIL

The Reading Advisory Council (RAC) meets with Mrs. Eckery twice a month September through April to discuss, review, and decide on books that might be bought for the Irving Media Center. Members are from 7th and 8th grade and have been recommended by a teacher the previous year. RAC is usually made up of 12 students. When purchased, a sticker is placed on the inside of a book telling others that a member of the Reading Advisory Council recommends it. Some of the books that have been recommended are:

Finding My Voice by Lee, Marie G. 214 p.
As she tries to enjoy her senior year and choose which college she will attend, Korean American Ellen Sung must deal with the prejudice of some of her classmates and pressure from her parents to get good grades.

Fahrenheit 451 by Bradbury, Ray, 179 p.
the temperature at which book paper catches fire and burns.

The Year of the Hangman by Blackwood, Gary L. 261 p.
In 1777, having been kidnapped and taken forcibly from England to the American colonies, fifteen-year-old Creighton becomes part of developments in the political unrest there that may spell defeat for the patriots and change the course of history.

Quiver by Spinner, Stephanie. 177 p.
When her father commands that she produce an heir, the huntress Atalanta gives her suitors a seemingly impossible task in order to uphold her pledge of chastity, as the gods of ancient Greece look on.

A Corner of the Universe by Martin, Ann M., 189 p.
The summer that Hattie turns twelve, she meets the childlike uncle she never knew and becomes friends with a girl who works at the carnival that comes to Hattie's small town.

Daughter of Venice by Napoli, Donna Jo, 274 p.
Frustrated with the restrictions her gender imposes on her life, fourteen-year-old Donata, disguised as a boy, sneaks out of her noble family's house to roam the streets of late sixteenth-century Venice and then must confront the repercussions of her actions.

The Voyage of the Continental by Kirkpatrick, Katherine. 297 p.
In 1866, young orphan Emeline McCullough leaves her mill job in Lowell, Massachusetts, to head for Seattle, Washington, aboard the steamship Continental, writing in her diary about the intrigue, danger, and romance she encounters on her journey.

The Thief Lord by Funke, Cornelia Caroline. 349 p.
A detective hired by their aunt seeks two brothers, having run away from the aunt who plans to adopt the younger one, but they have found shelter with--and protection from--Venice's "Thief Lord."

All-American Girl by Cabot, Meg. 247 p.
A sophomore girl stops a presidential assassination attempt, is appointed Teen Ambassador to the United Nations, and catches the eye of the very cute First Son.