Bringing Books and Stories for Everyone
The Franklin Grand Isle Bookmobile began hosting virtual book clubs for local students in January 2021. These book clubs offer young readers a chance to interact with new genres and other readers. The use of zoom has allowed the bookmobile to bring these opportunities to more communities and reach more students. Since beginning our book clubs, we have had meaningful discussion with local youth, and provided them with extra learning opportunities.
All students that sign up for our book club receive a free copy of the book we are reading to keep. Meetings include discussions about the book, games, writing prompts, and the occasional movie.
This book club is a wonderful opportunity to connect virtually with local youth and discuss the important and necessary topics.
What are we reading?
Middle School Club
With just one step, 16-year-old Alexandra Jennings’s world changes—literally. Dreading her first day at a new school, Alex is stunned when she walks through a doorway and finds herself stranded in Medora, a fantasy world full of impossibilities. Desperate to return home, she learns that only one man can help her—but he’s missing. While waiting for him to reappear, Alex attends Akarnae Academy, Medora’s boarding school for teenagers with extraordinary gifts. She soon starts to enjoy her bizarre new world and the friends who embrace her as one of their own, but strange things are happening at Akarnae, and Alex can’t ignore her fear that something unexpected—something sinister—is looming. An unwilling pawn in a deadly game, Alex’s shoulders bear the crushing weight of an entire race’s survival. Only she can save the Medorans, but what if doing so prevents her from ever returning home? Will Alex risk her entire world—and maybe even her life—to save Medora?
Join the club today and find out what happens!
Young Adult Club
“Internment sets itself apart…terrifying, thrilling and urgent.”–Entertainment Weekly
Rebellions are built on hope.
Set in a horrifying near-future United States, seventeen-year-old Layla Amin and her parents are forced into an internment camp for Muslim American citizens.
With the help of newly made friends also trapped within the internment camp, her boyfriend on the outside, and an unexpected alliance, Layla begins a journey to fight for freedom, leading a revolution against the camp’s Director and his guards.
Heart-racing and emotional, Internment challenges readers to fight complicit silence that exists in our society today.
Join the club today to see what happens!
Look at what we have already read!
