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🚨 PROJECT LIT BOOK CLUB UPDATES

- MIDDLE SCHOOL -

The current book our MS Book Club is reading is It's All or Nothing Vale by Andrea Beatriz Arango! Our book club meeting for this book will be on Friday, October 31 from 8:20-9:20am in the Inner Library. Book summary from the book's Goodreads page below: 

A poignant novel in verse where, after a life-changing accident, one girl finds her way back to her life’s passion. From the Newbery Honor Award-winning author of Iveliz Explains It All.

All these months of staring at the wall?

All these months of feeling weak?

It’s ending—

I’m going back to fencing.

And then it’ll be

like nothing ever happened.

No one knows hard work and dedication like Valentina Camacho. And Vale’s thing is fencing. She’s the top athlete at her fencing gym. Or she was . . . until the accident.

After months away, Vale is finally cleared to fence again, but it’s much harder than before. Her body doesn’t move the way it used to, and worst of all is the new number Myrka. When she sweeps Vale aside with her perfect form and easy smile, Vale just can’t accept that. But the harder Vale fights to catch up, the more she realizes her injury isn’t the only thing holding her back. If she can’t leave her accident in the past, then what does she have to look forward to?

In this moving novel from the Newbery Honor-winning author of Iveliz Explains It All, one girl finds her way back to her life’s passion and discovers that the sum of a person's achievements doesn’t amount to the whole of them.

SIGN UP HERE FOR OUR 10/31 BOOK CLUB MEETING BY 10/24!!! 

Email Ms. Byrd (kathryn.byrd@dcinternationalschool.org) with any questions you have regarding MS Project LIT book club (~monthly)

🚨 PROJECT LIT BOOK CLUB UPDATES

- HIGH SCHOOL -

Our HS Project LIT book club is currently reading Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The book club meeting for this book will take place on Friday, October 10 from 10:30 am- 12:00pm in the Inner Library. Check your email for updates on Project LIT! Book summary below:

Unsettling and indelible, Of Love and Other Demons is an evocative, majestic tale of the most universal experiences known to woman and man.

On her twelfth birthday, Sierva Maria, the only child of a decaying noble family in an eighteenth-century South American seaport, is bitten by a rabid dog. Believed to be possessed, she is brought to a convent for observation. And into her cell stumbles Father Cayetano Delaura, who has already dreamed about a girl with hair trailing after her like a bridal train. As he tends to her with holy water and sacramental oils, Delaura feels something shocking begin to occur. He has fallen in love, and it isn't long until Sierva Maria joins him in his fevered misery. 

SIGN UP HERE FOR OUR 10/10 BOOK CLUB MEETING BY 10/3!!!