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  • Homeschool Book Club (10 – 12): Brambleheart
    Homeschool Book Club (10 – 12): Brambleheart
    September 12, 2023 by
    On Thursday, October 5th, the Homeschool Book Club will be discussing Brambleheart: A Story About Finding Treasure and the Unexpected Magic of Friendship by Henry Cole at 11:30-12:30 pm. In the Hill, animals work as Weavers, Smelters, and Carvers—but Twig doesn’t know who he wants to be. […]...
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  • Homeschool Book Club (7 – 9): Bee & Flea and the Compost Caper
    Homeschool Book Club (7 – 9): Bee & Flea and the Compost Caper
    September 12, 2023 by
    On Tuesday, October 17th at 11:30 – 12:30 p.m., the Homeschool Book Club for 7 – 9 year olds will be discussing Bee & Flea and the Compost Caper by Anna Humphrey. This hilarious hop through the compost heap is the first book in a primary chapter […]...
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  • Homeschool Book Club (7 – 9): Cornbread and Poppy
    Homeschool Book Club (7 – 9): Cornbread and Poppy
    August 24, 2023 by
    On Tuesday, Sept. 12th at 11:30 – 12:30 p.m., the Homeschool Book Club for 7 – 9 year olds will be discussing Cornbread & Poppy #1 by Matthew Cordell. This new early reader series is about two best friends, Cornbread and Poppy, who are as different from […]...
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  • Homeschool Book Club (10 – 12): I Survived: The Children's Blizzard 1888
    Homeschool Book Club (10 – 12): I Survived: The Children’s Blizzard 1888
    August 24, 2023 by
    On Thursday, Sept. 7th, the Homeschool Book Club will be discussing I Survived: The Children’s Blizzard 1888 (book #16) by Lauren Tarshis at 11:30-12:30 pm. Can you imagine…Eleven-year-old John Hale has already survived one brutal Dakota winter, and now he’s about to experience one of the deadliest […]...
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  • Homeschool Book Club (9 – 11): The One and Only Ivan
    Homeschool Book Club (9 – 11): The One and Only Ivan
    July 25, 2023 by
    On August 22nd, the Homeschool Book Club will be discussing The One & Only Ivan at 12:00-1:00 pm. This unforgettable novel from renowned author Katherine Applegate celebrates the power of unexpected friendship. Inspired by the true story of a captive gorilla known as Ivan, this illustrated book […]...
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  • Homeschool Book Club (6 – 8): Ivy & Bean
    Homeschool Book Club (6 – 8): Ivy & Bean
    July 25, 2023 by
      On Wednesday, August 23rd at 12:00 – 1:00 p.m., the Homeschool Book Club for 6 – 8 year olds will be discussing Ivy & Bean #1 by Annie Barrows. This book introduces Ivy and Bean, two spunky friends who never meant to like each other. Bean […]...
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  • Homeschool Book Club (6 – 8): Wind Riders: Rescue on Turtle Beach
    Homeschool Book Club (6 – 8): Wind Riders: Rescue on Turtle Beach
    June 21, 2023 by
    On Wednesday, July 26th at 12:00 – 1:00 p.m., the Homeschool Book Club for 6 – 8 year olds will be discussing Wind Riders: Rescue on Turtle Beach by Jen Marlin. Wind Riders: Rescue on Turtle Beach is the first book in an illustrated chapter book series […]...
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  • Homeschool Book Club (9 – 11): Mr. Lemoncello’s Very First Game
    Homeschool Book Club (9 – 11): Mr. Lemoncello’s Very First Game
    June 15, 2023 by
    On July 25th, the Homeschool Book Club will be discussing Mr. Lemoncello’s Very First Game, by Chris Grabenstein at 12:00-1:00 pm. Before Mr. Lemoncello became everyone’s favorite game maker, he was a kid who liked to roll the dice. . . . In this PREQUEL to the […]...
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  • Homeschool Book Club (6 – 8): Lola Levine is Not Mean!
    Homeschool Book Club (6 – 8): Lola Levine is Not Mean!
    May 31, 2023 by
    On Tuesday, June 20th at 11:30-12:30, the Homeschool Book Club for 6-8 year olds will be discussing “Lola Levine is Not Mean!” by Monica Brown. Lola likes writing in her diario, sipping her mom’s cafe con leche, eating her dad’s matzo ball soup, and playing soccer with […]...
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  • Homeschool Book Club (9 – 11): Wishtree
    Homeschool Book Club (9 – 11): Wishtree
    May 23, 2023 by
    On June 13th, the Homeschool Book Club will be discussing Wishtree, by Katherine Applegate at 11:30-12:30. An oak tree and a crow help their neighbors embrace their differences in this beautiful, nuanced, New York Times-bestselling middle-grade novel from Newbery Medalist author Katherine Applegate. Trees can’t tell jokes, […]...
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  • Homeschool Book Club (9 – 11): Wild River
    Homeschool Book Club (9 – 11): Wild River
    May 8, 2023 by
    On May 23rd, the Homeschool Book Club will be discussing Wild River, by Rodman Philbrick at 11:30-12:30. Daniel Redmayne is fast asleep on the first night of a white water rafting trip, when he’s awoken by screams. The dam has failed and the river is surging, and […]...
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  • Homeschool Book Club (6 – 8): Good as Gold
    Homeschool Book Club (6 – 8): Good as Gold
    May 3, 2023 by
    On Tuesday, May 30th at 11:30-12:30, the Homeschool Book Club for 6-8 year olds will be discussing Good as Gold: Book 14 from The Whatever After Series. This is a fractured fairy tale for fearless kids! Guess where we are this time? The magic mirror has sent […]...
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  • Homeschool Book Club (9 – 11): Always, Clementine
    Homeschool Book Club (9 – 11): Always, Clementine
    April 24, 2023 by
    On May 9th, the Homeschool Book Club will be discussing Always, Clementine, by Carlie Sorosiak. This is a humor-filled, heart-tugging tale of a genius mouse named Clementine who is secretly freed from a lab and is in search of a real home—and a way to free her […]...
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  • Homeschool Book Club (6 – 8): Dory Fantasmagory
    Homeschool Book Club (6 – 8): Dory Fantasmagory
    April 13, 2023 by
    On Tuesday, May 2nd at 11:30-12:30, the Homeschool Book Club for 6-8 year olds will be discussing Dory Fantasmagory by Abby Hanlon. Move over, Junie B. Jones and Ivy & Bean! Here comes a lovably energetic little sister with a BIG personality—and an imagination to match! As […]...
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  • Homeschool Book Club (9 – 11): Wilderlore
    Homeschool Book Club (9 – 11): Wilderlore
    April 3, 2023 by
    On April 11th, the Homeschool Book Club will be discussing “Wilderlore: The Accidental Apprentice”, by Amanda Foody. Thankfully, as an apprentice to the town’s mushroom farmer, Barclay need only work hard and follow the rules to one day become the head mushroom farmer himself. No danger required. […]...
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