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Book Talks

A book talk is a short, casual presentation about a book with the goal of engaging the listener and convincing other people to read it. It’s not a formal book report or review. Have fun and get creative to 'sell' the book to other readers.

Next Meeting:

Changes Monthly. Check {Pages} website for details.

https://www.pagesabookstore.com/store-book-clubs

Book:

Changes Monthly. Check {Pages} website for details.

https://www.pagesabookstore.com/store-book-clubs

Information:

Email info@pagesabookstore.com for information.

Pages: a bookstore // Middle-Grade Book Club

MIDDLE-GRADE BOOK CLUB:

Meets monthly, generally on the third Wednesday of each month at 4:30 pm. Meetings are currently over Zoom or in the {Pages} Courtyard for safety.

Focus is on middle-grade fiction. Book selection is done by voting prior to each meeting so that the following month’s book will be available at the preceding month’s meeting.

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Pages: a bookstore //

Page Turners Book Club

PAGE TURNERS BOOK CLUB: (Check with Pages for status of this particular book club).

A book club just for 8th and 9th graders. Meets monthly, generally on the second Wednesday of each month at 5:00 pm. Meetings may be over Zoom or in-person in the {Pages} Courtyard for safety.

Participants meet to read and talk about books from all genres, selected by group members from books suggested by a {Pages} staff member. Join your friends, meet new friends, and enjoy an hour of “book talk” in the {Pages} courtyard.

WANTED: Students to create their own Book Talks!

Engage with your fellow MBMS classmates and make a 2-3 minute Book Talk on your favorite titles. Please email the MBMS Librarian at comeara@mbusd.org to chat about making your own video to post on this site. Thanks!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hW6Se_8CISc

11/18/20: Fly on the Wall by Remy Lai

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9_hgWb-X50

12/28/20: The Language of Ghosts by Heather Fawcett

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJUKUNcztsE

12/5/20: Fighting Words by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5e0cg4TYQo

12/14/20: Yara's Spring by Jamal Saeed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMrxFOn5VaE

1/12/21: Measuring Up by Lily LaMotte

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o4h_rf3sJ8

10/1/20: Red Fox Road by Frances Greenslade

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZB1x3T1BjVY

*Short Story Collection

11/30/20: Don't Turn Out the Lights by Johnathan Maberry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjUiw4nJG1g

7/24/20: Something to say by Lisa Moore Ramée

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_oiBmViX4k

OR

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLPHnvPSdpc

1/7/21; 5/21/20: Brother's Keeper by Julie Lee

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Mv0KS5miLo

11/12/20: Ikenga by Nnedi Okorafor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmtKC8KGua0

9/29/20: My Life in the Fish Tank by Barbara Dee

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40012192-a-song-only-i-can-hear?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=CmSQYX5xbB&rank=1

*Written synopsis; not a video.

A Song Only I Can Hear by Barry Jonsberg

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52515165-we-dream-of-space?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=ZO8gkLIP9t&rank=1

*Written synopsis; not a video.

We Dream of Space by Erin Entrada Kelley

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcwsWsL34QA

or

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53rUvn9jdOw

9/30/30: Curse of the Night Witch ~ Emblem Island by Alex Aster

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81QUZQts_rY

or

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMlVcJ8DH2Y

(animated trailer)

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8/28/20: City of Secrets (Graphic Novel) by Victoria Ying

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50097166-fins?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=uv3UjrKTF2&rank=1

*Written synopsis; not a video.

Fins: A Sharks Incorporated Novel by Randy Wayne White

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoXl9DsBSwY

4/7/20: Echo Mountain by Lauren Wolk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHgBKrrrHfM

6/9/20: What Lane? by Torrey Maldonado

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytFteCHtJBk

3/30/30: Beast: Face-to-Face with the Florida Bigfoot by Watt Key

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51934297-a-ceiling-made-of-eggshells?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=sllra0eebw&rank=1

*Written synopsis; not a video.

A Ceiling Made of Eggshells by Gail Carson Levine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkzK7UeP8LY

9/2/20: Tornado Brain by Cat Patrick

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53029302-kiki-s-delivery-service?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=de5fgFZAXs&rank=2

*Written synopsis; not a video.

Kiko's Delivery Service by Eiko Kadono

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIPjOcpuy2Y

10/23/20: Not Your All American Girl by Madelyn Rosenberg and Wendy Wan-Long Shang

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVr7d5DAtbs

2/7/20: Wink by Rob Harrell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMdUYfsCsXI

9/26/19: Superman Smashes the Klan by Gene Luen Yang

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCffry_06L0

9/17/20: The Girl and the Ghost by Hanna Alkaf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gtx4fy_6aww

7/13/20: Turtle Boy by M. Evan Wolkenstein

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQPjif9Q83g

10/27/20: The Puppet's Payback by Mary Downing Hahn

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52765790-it-s-girls-like-you-mickey

*Written synopsis; not a video.

It's Girls Like You, Mikey by Patti Kim

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSpKjNqXUNI

9/4/20: Paola Santiago and the River of Tears by Tehlor Kay Mejia

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49251295-city-of-gold

*Written synopsis; not a video.

City of Gold by Will Hobbs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-X--9zKlUTM

7/21/20: American as Paneer Pie by Supriya Kelkar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMVKx-G5nnM

10/29/20: Seance Tea Party by Reimena Lee (Graphic Novel)

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45449847-how-to-disappear-completely?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=1WFfB8Cz5C&rank=1

*Written synopsis; not a video.

How to Disappear Completely by Ali Standish

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cc2qH76osu4

3/2/20 -- Prairie Lotus by Linda Sue Park

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPqhfFZvkFo

9/10/20 -- Parked by Danielle Svetcov

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vi55EI2wI0M

6/2/20 -- The Magnificent Monsters of Cedar Street by Lauren Oliver

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mIMQMx4Iag

4/26/20 -- Snapdragon by Kat Leyh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ix0EAqrWlk

8/16/19 -- The Peacock Detectives by Carly Nugent

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPS3K1-Rv2E

6/20/20 -- Efren Divided by Ernesto Cisneros

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHFVH4hGF_Y

10/9/20 -- The Only Black Girls in Town by Brandy Colbert

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YUImoDdFQA

8/31/20 -- Show Me A Sign by Ann Clare LeZotte

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOjC55UnDP4

8/10/20 -- Catherine's War; Clean Getaway

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krKoQfXMMr4

6/23/20 -- Leaving Lymon by Lesa Cline-Ransome

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGLFBmjra5M

1/17/20 -- Castaway by Naomi Shihab Nye

https://youtu.be/EuE2p-Krz6I

9/17/20 -- All Together Now (Graphic Novel); In the Red (Science Fiction); Home for Goddesses and Dogs (Realistic Fiction)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gT4eM2u1zDg

9/15/20 -- The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora; Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiEJ9TF-hHA

9/7/20 -- 96 Miles by J.L. Esplin

https://youtu.be/5Dcw21_aP7U

9/6/20 -- Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls

#1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXO6dwr4Z-o

*There are several more videos by the Author about this title to view if desired.

8/16/20 -- The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl by Stacy McAnulty

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybt4HUaMtC4

8/4/20 -- From the Desk of Zoe Washington by Janae Marks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEq_KZHZ2vw

6/2020 -- The List of Things That Will Not Change by Rebecca Stead

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDSLZRyetxs

6/23/20 -- The One and Only Bob by Katherine Applegate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ua74tKP3MiY

5/18/20 -- Suzanne Collins reads from The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gITXGmlmzI

5/16/20 -- The Blackbird Girls by Anne Blankman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IJw35hTD8o

5/17/20 -- Gloom Town

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7YBs7TOOJs

4/10/20 -- Things You Can't Say by Jenn Bishop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfQsc6mjQWw

11/12/19 -- Look Both Ways by Jason Reynolds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXmDLri6Gxo

10/17/19 -- They Called Us Enemy by George Takei

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9lJ4wzn7h8

8/1/19 -- Allies Book Talk by Alan Gratz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCy7gjdMvjU

2/11/19 -- New Kid Book Talk by Jerry Craft

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYGGs2lxtjY

OR

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzJJTCpfkJM

The Giver by Lois Lowry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkxkisRUmMM

A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park

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