Here's how it works:
Sign up using the form below to be added to our exclusive e-mail list. This is how we will communicate with each other between meetings. You can sign up at any point during the year.
Once you sign up, all you have to do is read! You can request a copy of the current month's book through the TCHS Library Media Center, get a copy from the Lexington Public Library, or check out an e-book or audiobook if available. See our Reading Page for details or contact Mrs. Eldridge.
We will meet periodically throughout the year. Dates and times are listed below. Actual book selections will be based on votes in the sign up form.
Discussions are meant to be informal and fun. It's a great way to meet new people who love great books just as much as you do! Participation is completely up to you. If the current book choice is not for you, feel free to wait until the next time.
Sign ups for the 2024-2025 School Year will begin in August.
September 27th
3:30 - 4:00
Seventeen-year-old Jani and her little sister Zosa secure jobs at a glamorous magical hotel, but when Jani realizes that their staff contracts are unbreakable, she embarks on a mission to unravel the mystery of the magic at the heart of the hotel and free Zosa--and the other staff--from the cruelty of the ruthless maître d'hôtel.
October 25th
3:30 - 4:00
Red Kenny is on a road trip for spring break with five friends: Her best friend--the older brother--his perfect girlfriend--a secret crush--a classmate--and a killer. When their RV breaks down in the middle of nowhere with no cell service, they soon realize this is no accident. They have been trapped by someone out there in the dark, someone who clearly wants one of them dead. With eight hours until dawn, the six friends must escape, or figure out which of them is the target. But is there a liar among them? Buried secrets will be forced to light and tensions inside the RV will reach deadly levels. Not all of them will survive the night.
November 29th
3:30 - 4:00
Salama Kassab was studying as a pharmacy student when revolution broke out in Syria, and now she volunteers at a hospital in Homs, tending to the wounded that come in each day. She is desperate to get out of her beloved country before her sister-in-law, Layla, gives birth, but she is consumed by fear. Salama is so traumatized that her fear has manifested into a physical embodiment in the form of her imagined companion, Khawf, who haunts her every move. Khawf pressures her to leave, but just as she is deciding to leave, she meets Kenan, and everything changes.
January 31st
3:30 - 4:00
After discovering the body of fourteen-year-old Jawad Ali in Jackson Park, seventeen-year-old journalism student Safiya Mirza begins investigating his murder and ends up confronting white supremacy in her own high school.
February 28th
3:30 - 4:00
Over the course of one wild and reckless day, two best friends become something more and the depth of their past, the confusion of the present, and the unpredictability of their future is revealed.
March 27th
3:30 - 4:00
In the year following their son's death, May Chen's parents face racist accusations of putting too much pressure on their son and causing his death by suicide, and May attempts to challenge the racism and ugly stereotypes through her writing, only to realize that she still has a lot to learn and that her actions have consequences for her family as well as herself.
May 1st
3:30 - 4:00
Wren's hometown of Hollow's End is blessed with a miracle crop, including the shimmering, iridescent wheat of Wren's family's farm. But five months ago, the Quicksilver blight arrived, damaging the crops on every farm in Hollow's End, and it soon infects the livestock and then the humans as well. Wren is among the last locals standing, and she joins forces with her ex-boyfriend Derek to discover the cause of the poison. They soon learn the dark truth surrounding the town's magical crops.