March Meeting - March 8th at 7:00 PM
The February meeting was snowed out! How appropriate since we were to discuss "The Long Winter" by Laura Ingalls Wilder. We have moved the "The Long Winter" to be the March book and we can all take turns telling our snowstorm stories!!!
February's book - "The Long Winter" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The selection for February will be The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
This is the story of Laura Ingalls and her family as they struggle during their first winter on their new homestead in Dakota territory. The winter sees blizzard after blizzard with no end in sight and by December no trains can bring supplies to their new, little town. Laura's family and all the townspeople must struggle to get through the winter with little food, no coal, and neverending days of blizzards. When the town's food supply get dangerously low, Almanzo Wilder and Cap Garland take a dangerous trip to secure wheat for the townspeople. Will they get back before the next blizzard?
This is the story of Laura Ingalls and her family as they struggle during their first winter on their new homestead in Dakota territory. The winter sees blizzard after blizzard with no end in sight and by December no trains can bring supplies to their new, little town. Laura's family and all the townspeople must struggle to get through the winter with little food, no coal, and neverending days of blizzards. When the town's food supply get dangerously low, Almanzo Wilder and Cap Garland take a dangerous trip to secure wheat for the townspeople. Will they get back before the next blizzard?
January Book - "Mary Cassatt" by Robyn Montana Turner
Our selection for January is "Mary Cassatt" by Robyn Montana Turner. Mary Cassatt was born in Allegheny, PA in 1844 and started her art career in the 1860's when few women chose that path and now her beautiful painting are known around the world. This book is te story of her remarkable life.
December Book - "Hoot" by Carl Hiassen
In December, we discussed the book Hoot by Carl Hiassen.
Roy Eberhardt is the new kid--again. This time around it's Trace Middle School in humid Coconut Grove, Florida. But it's still the same old routine: table by himself at lunch, no real friends, and thick-headed bullies like Dana Matherson pushing him around. But if it wasn't for Dana Matherson mashing his face against the school bus window that one day, he might never have seen the tow-headed running boy. And if he had never seen the running boy, he might never have met tall, tough, bully-beating Beatrice. And if he had never met Beatrice, he might never have discovered the burrowing owls living in the lot on the corner of East Oriole Avenue. And if he had never discovered the owls, he probably would have missed out on the adventure of a lifetime. Apparently, bullies do serve a greater purpose in the scope of the universe. Because if it wasn't for Dana Matherson...
Roy Eberhardt is the new kid--again. This time around it's Trace Middle School in humid Coconut Grove, Florida. But it's still the same old routine: table by himself at lunch, no real friends, and thick-headed bullies like Dana Matherson pushing him around. But if it wasn't for Dana Matherson mashing his face against the school bus window that one day, he might never have seen the tow-headed running boy. And if he had never seen the running boy, he might never have met tall, tough, bully-beating Beatrice. And if he had never met Beatrice, he might never have discovered the burrowing owls living in the lot on the corner of East Oriole Avenue. And if he had never discovered the owls, he probably would have missed out on the adventure of a lifetime. Apparently, bullies do serve a greater purpose in the scope of the universe. Because if it wasn't for Dana Matherson...
November Book is "Clementine" by Sara Pennypacker
We decided on "Clementine" by Sara Pennypacker since she will be a guest speaker on November 21, 2009 at the Pittsburgh Black, White, and Read All Over lecture at the Carnegie Library Lecture Hall.
A summary of the book: "While sorting through difficulties in her friendship with her neighbor Margaret, eight-year-old Clementine gains several unique hairstyles while also helping her father in his efforts to banish pigeons from the front of their apartment building."
A summary of the book: "While sorting through difficulties in her friendship with her neighbor Margaret, eight-year-old Clementine gains several unique hairstyles while also helping her father in his efforts to banish pigeons from the front of their apartment building."
October Selection - "The Trumpet of the Swam" by E. B. White
Join us on Monday October 12th at 7:00 PM to discuss this classic book. Stop into the children's department to pick up your copy today!
Although he lacks a voice in the traditional "Ko-hoh!" sense, trumpeter swan Louis learns to speak to the world with a trumpet stolen from a music store by his father. With the support of an unusual boy named Sam, who helps Louis learn how to read and write, the swan has some rather unswanlike adventures and ultimately wins the love--and the freedom--of a beautiful swan named Serena.
Although he lacks a voice in the traditional "Ko-hoh!" sense, trumpeter swan Louis learns to speak to the world with a trumpet stolen from a music store by his father. With the support of an unusual boy named Sam, who helps Louis learn how to read and write, the swan has some rather unswanlike adventures and ultimately wins the love--and the freedom--of a beautiful swan named Serena.
September's Selection - A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
We had a delightful time eating yummy cookies and cupcakes with tea and lemonade while discussing "A Little Princess".
If you missed the bookclub meeting but read the book please post your thoughts on our blog. Here is a description of the book:
"A Little Princess" is one of Frances Hodgson Burnett's most loved stories. It is the story of young Sara Crewe who while growing up in a well to do household suddenly finds herself impoverished when her father, Captain Crewe, dies penniless in India. Sara is forced to abandon her life of privilege for a life of bare existence at Miss Minchin's boarding school. To survive those hard times she imagines herself to be a little princess as she awaits her rescue from a mysterious benefactor.
If you missed the bookclub meeting but read the book please post your thoughts on our blog. Here is a description of the book:
"A Little Princess" is one of Frances Hodgson Burnett's most loved stories. It is the story of young Sara Crewe who while growing up in a well to do household suddenly finds herself impoverished when her father, Captain Crewe, dies penniless in India. Sara is forced to abandon her life of privilege for a life of bare existence at Miss Minchin's boarding school. To survive those hard times she imagines herself to be a little princess as she awaits her rescue from a mysterious benefactor.
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