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What is the Intergenerational Book Club?
Bringing readers of all ages together! In the Intergenerational Book Club, older adults living in Arlington meet with students to discuss a designated book each month. This group is a partnership between Arlington High School and the Council on Aging.
Join Us!
Note: Our meetings are traditionally once a month on Thursdays afternoons in the AHS Media Center. This club will meet online during SY20-21.
Our Google Classroom code is7ilr6nl.
Come to every meeting, or just when the mood strikes! Drop ins are always welcome. Delicious snacks are generously provided by Food Link, Inc.
Books are made available at Robbins Library (for all) and the AHS Media Center (for students) circulation desks. Students can receive community service credit for their participation.
For more information, please contact AHS library teacher Stacy Kitsis (skitsis@arlington.k12.ma.us) or Council on Aging social worker Marci Shapiro-Ide (mshapiro-ide@town.arlington.ma.us).
We look forward to hearing from you!
Intergenerational Book Club In Action
What We're Reading Now
Our book selections for the 2020-2021 school year are as follows:
September 24, 2020: Sharing summer reading
October 22, 2020: The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
November 11, 2020: One of Us Is Lying (Karen M. McManus)
December 17, 2020: A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
January 21, 2021: They Called Us Enemy by George Takei, Justin Eisinger, Steven Scott, and Harmony Becker
February 25, 2021: Educated by Tara Westover
March 18, 2021: Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria by Beverly Tatum (Arlington Reads Together)
April 15, 2021: The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
May 20, 2021: Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
June 10, 2021: End of year meeting (summer reading recommendations!)
School Year 2019-2020
Our book selections for the 2019-2020 school year are as follows:
September 19, 2019: The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant
October 17, 2019: Hey Kiddo by Jarrett Krosoczka
November 21, 2019: Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
December 19, 2019: The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Frost edited by Harold Bloom (selections)
January 16, 2020: Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
February 13, 2020: When I Was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago (Arlington Reads Together)
March 19, 2020: The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien (online)
March 26, 2020: Open Discussion (online)
April 2, 2020: Family History Show and Tell (online)
April 16, 2020: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz (online)
April 30, 2020: Sharing Poetry in Honor of National Poetry Month (online)
May 21, 2020: Bull by David Elliott (online)
Past Reading Lists
SY 2018-2019 Book List:
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
Keep Quiet by Lisa Scottoline
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
Refugee by Alan Gratz (Arlington Reads Together)
It's Kind of Funny Story by Ned Vizzini
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Annie Barrows and Mary Ann Shaffer
Feed by M.T. Anderson
SY 2017-2018 Book List:
Miracle at St. Anna by James McBride
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
Wonder by R.J. Palacio (Arlington Reads Together)
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Strangers in Their Own Land by Arlie Russell Hochschild
SY 2014-2015 Book List:
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Zafon
Let The Great World Spin by Colum McCann
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susan Clarke
Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
SY 2011-2012 Book List:
Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
12 Angry Men by Reginald Rose
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
Distant Waves by Suzanne Weyn
Graceling by Kristin Cashore
SY 2010-2011 Book List:
Candide by Voltaire
Blank Confessions by Pete Hautemen
Witch & Wizard by James Patterson
Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland
Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok
1984 by George Orwell
Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
The Magicians by Lev Grossman
SY 2019-2010 Book List:
My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
The Tenth Circle by Jodi Picoult
Empire Falls by Richard Russo
Rabbit Run by John Updike
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
Crank by Ellen Hopkins
Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Schafer and Annie Barrows
Purple Hibiscus by Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie
Smoke Signals by Sherman Alexie
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
Call of the Wild by Jack London
SY 2008-2009 Book List:
The Centaur by John Updike
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
The Martian Chronicle by Ray Bradbury
The End of Faith by Sam Harris
White Fang by Jack London
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
SY 2007-2008 Book List:
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
When Bad Things Happen to Good People by Rabbi Kushner
New Boy by Judge Julian Houston
The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
SY 2006-2007 Book List:
Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins
The Tenth Circle by Jodi Picoult
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger
Crow Lake by Mary Lawson
Bless Me Ultima by Frederico Anaya
In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
Saving the Fish from Drowning by Amy Tan
Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick
SY 2005-2006 Book List:
Snow in August by Pete Hamill
Everything is Illuminated by Jonnathon Safran
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
The Known World by Edward P. Jones
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Gavin Marquez
Montana 1948 by Larry Watson
Invitation to a Beheading by Vladimir Nabakov
The Life of Pi by Yann Martel
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit by Daniel Quinn
Siddhartha by Heran Hesse
The Tin Drum by Gunter Gras
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
The Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
Source: Photographed by Livia Freeman for the AHS Yearbook (2020)
Book Club Pandemic Edition
Source: Screenshot taken with permission (December 2020)
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