book clubs (discussion groups)

Five women and one man in California's Central Valley begin a six-month series of romantic entanglements after forming a Jane Austen book discussion club.

The authors presents a language arts curriculum that incorporates literature-based discussions to help teen and pre-teen girls deal with specific issues and develop confidence.

Presents a guide to leading a book discussion group, for parents and children, with information on how to foster bonds between kids and books, and examples from book discussions on how to engage reader's in the elements of story's theme, setting, character, and conflict.

Juliet Ashton, a thirty-year-old author, writes to her publisher expressing her desire to stop covering the aftermath of WWII, but Guernsey farmer Dawsey Adams invites neighbors to write to Juliet with their stories, which puts her off at first but eventually helps her find inspiration for her next book, and her life.

Explains how to organize a book club for kids and presents resources and activities for use with fifty books at grade levels 1-5, 4-7, 6-8, and 9 and up; each book profile includes a synopsis, author background, the author's Web site, a recipe, activities, discussion topics, a list of film adaptations, and further reading suggestions.

When four very different small-town Delaware high school girls are forced to join a mother-daughter book club over summer vacation, they end up learning about more than just the books they read.

A guide to family-oriented book clubs for librarians that describes four types of family-oriented book clubs and offers advice on how to set up and maintain a book club in the library setting.

Flor, Ruby, Olivia, and Niki each find a special book on their doorstop, so they begin a book club in which they discover the title they are discussing relates to their summer experiences.

When twelve-year-old Bronte moves to a small California beach town, her idea to form a book club in order to make friends turns out to be a good one, after a rocky start.