WebEx Live: Virtual Book Club for Grades 6-8

Read a book selected last month by your peers, then join in a virtual meeting with other readers your own age to discuss your thoughts on the book or just to visit. Grades 6-8. Registration is required.

Our reader-chosen book this month is Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus by Dusti Bowling.  If you haven't read it yet, you're in for a treat!  Here is a teaser from the publisher's website: 

“'Whoa! What happened to your arms?'

"Aven Green gets that question a lot. She loves to tell people that she lost her arms in an alligator wrestling match, or a wildfire in Tanzania, but the truth is she was born without them. And when her parents take a job running Stagecoach Pass, a rundown western theme park in Arizona, Aven moves with them across the country knowing that she’ll have to answer the question over and over again.

"Her new life takes an unexpected turn when she bonds with Connor, a classmate who also feels isolated because of his own disability, and they discover a room at Stagecoach Pass that holds bigger secrets than Aven ever could have imagined.

"It’s hard to solve a mystery, help a friend, and face your worst fears. But Aven’s about to discover she can do it all . . . even without arms."

We have reserved copies to check out for the first ten registrants (pick up at MEO Central Library youth department).  The book is also available on Hoopla in audiobook and on Overdrive/Libby as an ebook.  It can also be checked out in physical form from a local branch!

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