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Reading Together All Year
Start a book club in your school or community! This package includes everything you need to get started and run eight months of engaging book clubs.
Getting Started With Bookclubs
What’s included?
You’ll receive a welcome packet including our philosophy of parent engagement, alignment to Joyce Epstein’s Six Types of Parent Involvement, a parent survey, 10 reasons to have a parent book club and more! These sessions are all about community building. You’ll read and discuss Seedfolks by Paul Fleischman and The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh. To help you organize and facilitate your meetings, we’ve included meeting agendas, discussion questions, community building activities and more.
Seedfolks by Paul Fleischman
ALA Best Book for Young Adults ∙ School Library Journal Best Book ∙ Publishers Weekly Best Book ∙ IRA/CBC Children's Choice ∙ NCTE Notable Children's Book in the Language Arts
A Vietnamese girl plants six lima beans in a Cleveland vacant lot. Looking down on the immigrant-filled neighborhood, a Romanian woman watches suspiciously. A school janitor gets involved, then a Guatemalan family. Then muscle-bound Curtis, trying to win back Lateesha. Pregnant Maricela. Amir from India. A sense of community sprouts and spreads.
Newbery-winning author Paul Fleischman uses thirteen speakers to bring to life a community garden's founding and first year. The book's short length, diverse cast, and suitability for adults as well as children have led it to be used in countless one-book reads in schools and in cities across the country.
Seedfolks has been drawn upon to teach tolerance, read in ESL classes, promoted by urban gardeners, and performed in schools and on stages from South Africa to Broadway.
The Pact
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A remarkable story about the power of friendship. Chosen by Essence to be among the forty most influential African Americans, the three doctors grew up in the streets of Newark, facing city life’s temptations, pitfalls, even jail. But one … Continued
