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Book Discussion Groups

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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
  • 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."