Virtual Book Club for Teens
Swanton Public Library offers virtual, do-it-at-home book clubs for students in grades 5 through 12.
The best part? Everyone who participates gets to keep the book.
Teens can pick up a free book and activity packet at the library, read at home, and complete as much or as little of the packet as they would like.
How it Works
Each Virtual Book Club packet includes:
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A free book to keep
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A blank review form
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Discussion questions
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A small craft or activity connected to the book
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Optional online discussion through SPL Youth
All we ask is that participants read the book. The rest is flexible.
Current Book Selections
Grades 5 through 8
Gallowgate
by K. R. Alexander
Sebastian Wight is cursed. As a boy with the forbidden ability to traverse the lands of the dead, he must not only harness his newfound powers to fight the monster that stalks him, but also to navigate a creepy world of hunting ghosts and ghouls with his eccentric classmates. And that's only the start of his concerns. They're also tangled on a boy who barely looks at him twice... and the deadly family history that brought him to the halls of Gallowgate Academy in the first place. For Sebastian Wight, fighting the dead might be hard... but it's dealing with the living that may bring him down.
Current Book Selections
Grade 9 through 12
The Girl Who Was Supposed to Die
by April Henry
'Take her out back and finish her off.’ She doesn’t know who she is. She doesn’t know where she is, or why. All she knows when she comes to in a ransacked cabin is that there are two men arguing over whether or not to kill her. And that she must run
Join the Conversation
Participants can visit SPL Youth to discuss the books or comment on the questions and activities.
Prefer not to go online? Fill out the review sheets included in the packet and return them to the library. Staff can post comments for you.
Participants who post online or return something from the packet, even a picture of the completed craft, can receive a small prize at the library.