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Book Discussion Groups

New Titles Added The History of Love, Nicole Krauss Someone Knows My Name, Lawrence Hill Then We Came to the End, Joshua Ferris The Drowning Tree, Carol Goodman Love Songs in Minor Keys, Joseph Cavano

General | Kids and Teens

• MHLS Resources:
  • Book Club in a Bag Program: Library Staff | Patrons
  • Providing Books for Your Discussion Group (using Millennium)
• Book Club Cookbook's Invite An Author program
• Reading Group Choices: Access to discussion guides from large to independent publishers
• Reading Group Guides: on-line community for reading groups; access to discussion guides
• Great Books Foundation: the official site of the most respected foundation in the field of book discussions. Includes information about junior discussion groups, newsletters, training opportunities & events
• African American Literature Book Club:founded in 1997. Includes book excerpts, author profiles, on-line discussions of African American literature
• Oprah Book Club: Click on Oprah's Books on the left. Must sign up for a free member ship at oprah.com to join the book club. Includes a "kids corner".
• Fiction-L suggested titles
• Professional Collection Materials.
• Web sites for Reading Groups
• LitLovers LitClub : Includes reading guides, international recipes, starting/managing clubs, icebreakers, choosing titles and more
• Publishers' resources for discussions
• Book Discussion Moral Dilemma Questions
• Online Book Clubs
  • BookSprouts.com
  • DearReader.com
  • Senior Net: Basic registration is free. Access the book club by clicking Enrichment Centers from the home page, then Book Clubs. On-line discussions & author responses.
  • Tips for Starting and Running an Online Book Club, Book-Clubs-Resource.com
• Readers' Advisory Resources
  
  Kids and Teens

• Authors
  • Author phone chats
  • Find local authors
  • Visits from authors
• Beyond Book Clubs (thinking out-of-the-box re teen groups; RoseMary Honnold, VOYA April 2008)
• Book Club Cookbook's Invite An Author program (authors may do phone chats w/club)
• Book Club in a Bag program (MHLS) (Some titles are appropriate for teens. See MHLS Resources, top of page)
• Book discussion groups for kids ( from Multnomah County Library, created with Oregon State LSTA funds)
  • Starting a club
  • Common questions about clubs
  • Guidelines for running groups
  • Universal questions to ask about any book
  • Discussion guides for over 200 titles
• Fiction-L title suggestions (By age & topic)
• Great Books Foundation: (Includes information about junior discussion groups, newsletters, training opportunities & events)
• Great Stories Club (Grants from ALA for reading & discussion programs targeting undeserved teens; book lists, resources& funds provided)
• Kids starting own book clubs
  • Do-It-Yourself Bookclub for Elementary Age (Carmel Clay Public Library)
  • Kidsread.com (Ideas for starting/running clubs, choosing titles, discussion questions)
  • Teenreads.com
• LitLovers (Book club ideas, preschool to teens)
• Moral Dilemma Questions (for discussion groups, as extra activity)
• Professional Collection Materials (MHLS) - Reading Clubs
• Random House Guides
• Title Guides
  • Specific guides in Mid-Hudson Professional Collection
  • HarperCollins - PreK-8
  • Scholastic
  • KidsRead
• Teen Reading Clubs (No Limits Read! Young Adult Reading Club and Programming Manual by Lisa Youngblood. Published by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission, 2002. "Chapter III."