This group is for readers ages 12 & Up. The group facilitator is former staff member Mack Oliver (writerdancer10@gmail.com).
Upcoming meeting: Sunday, September 15, 2019 at 5 p.m. Also, selection meeting and 7th anniversary!
***Please note date change.***
***PREVIOUS SELECTION*** Sunday, August 4, 2019
***PREVIOUS SELECTION*** Sunday, July 14, 2019
***PREVIOUS SELECTION*** Sunday, June 9, 2019
***PREVIOUS SELECTION*** Sunday, May 12, 2019
***PREVIOUS SELECTION*** Sunday, April 14, 2019
***PREVIOUS SELECTION*** Sunday, March 10, 2019
***PREVIOUS SELECTION*** Sunday, February 10, 2019
***PREVIOUS SELECTION*** Sunday, January 13, 2019
PLUS launch of our Teen Advisory Council immediately following discussion
***PREVIOUS SELECTION*** Sunday, December 9, 2018
***PREVIOUS SELECTION*** Sunday, November 11, 2018
***PREVIOUS SELECTION*** Sunday, October 14, 2018
***PREVIOUS SELECTION*** Sunday, September 9, 2018
***PREVIOUS SELECTION*** Sunday, August 12, 2018
***PREVIOUS SELECTION*** Sunday, July 8, 2018
***PREVIOUS SELECTION*** Sunday, June 10, 2018
***PREVIOUS SELECTION*** Sunday, May 13, 2018
***PREVIOUS SELECTION*** Sunday, April 8, 2018
***PREVIOUS SELECTION*** Sunday, March 11, 2018
***PREVIOUS SELECTION*** Sunday, February 11, 2018
***PREVIOUS SELECTION*** Sunday, January 14, 2018
***PREVIOUS SELECTION*** Sunday, December 10, 2017
PREVIOUS SELECTION: Sunday, November 12, 2017
***PREVIOUS SELECTION*** and 5-Year Anniversary Party!
Sunday, October 15, 2017
***PREVIOUS SELECTION*** Sunday, September 10, 2017
***PREVIOUS SELECTION*** Sunday, August 13, 2017
***PREVIOUS SELECTION*** Sunday, July 9, 2017
***PREVIOUS SELECTION*** Sunday, June 11, 2017
***PREVIOUS SELECTION*** Sunday, May 14, 2017
***PREVIOUS SELECTION*** Sunday, April 9, 2017
***PREVIOUS SELECTION*** Sunday, March 12, 2017
***PREVIOUS SELECTION*** Sunday, February 12, 2017
***PREVIOUS SELECTION*** Sunday, January 8, 2017
***PREVIOUS SELECTION*** Sunday, December 12, 2016
***PREVIOUS SELECTION*** Sunday, November 6, 2016
***PREVIOUS SELECTION*** Sunday, October 9, 2016
***PREVIOUS SELECTION*** Sunday, September 11, 2016
***PREVIOUS SELECTON*** Sunday, August 14, 2016
***PREVIOUS SELECTION*** Sunday, July 10, 2016
***PREVIOUS SELECTION*** Sunday, June 12, 2016
***PREVIOUS SELECTION*** Sunday, May 8, 2016
***PREVIOUS SELECTION*** Sunday, April 10, 2016
***PREVIOUS SELECTION*** Sunday, March 13, 2016
***PREVIOUS SELECTION*** February 14, 2016
****PREVIOUS SELECTION**** Sunday, January 10, 2016
****PREVIOUS SELECTION**** Sunday, December 13, 2015
***PREVIOUS SELECTION*** Sunday, November 8, 2015
***PREVIOUS SELECTION*** Sunday, September 13, 2015
***PREVIOUS SELECTION*** Sunday, August 9, 2015
***PREVIOUS SELECTION*** Sunday, July 12, 2015
***PREVIOUS SELECTION*** Sunday, March 8, 2015
***PREVIOUS SELECTION*** Sunday, February 8, 2015
***PREVIOUS SELECTION***
***PREVIOUS SELECTION*** Sunday, December 14, 2014
***PREVIOUS SELECTION*** Sunday, November 9, 2014
***PREVIOUS SELECTION*** Sunday, October 12, 2014
***PREVIOUS SELECTION*** Sunday, September 14, 201
***PREVIOUS SELECTION*** Sunday, August 10, 2014
***PREVIOUS SELECTION*** Sunday, July 13, 2014
***PREVIOUS SELECTION*** Sunday, June 1, 2014
***PREVIOUS SELECTION*** Sunday, May 11, 2014
***PREVIOUS SELECTION*** Sunday, April 13, 2014
***PREVIOUS SELECTION*** Sunday, March 9, 2014
***PREVIOUS SELECTION*** Sunday, February 9, 2015
***PREVIOUS SELECTION*** Sunday, January 12, 2014
***PREVIOUS SELECTION*** Sunday, December 8, 2013
***PREVIOUS SELECTION*** Sunday, November 10, 2013
***PREVIOUS SELECTION*** Sunday, October 13, 2013
***PREVIOUS SELECTION*** Sunday, September 8, 2013
This will also be our selection meeting and is the group's one year anniversary!
***PREVIOUS SELECTION*** Sunday, August 11, 2013
***PREVIOUS SELECTION*** Sunday, July 14, 2013
***PREVIOUS SELECTION*** Sunday, June 9, 2013
**Previous selection**
Sunday, May 12th at 5:00 pm
In this Junior Library Guild Selection, Broach weaves an intriguing literary mystery full of historical insights and discoveries, as a young girl tries to uncover the connections between a missing diamond, a mysterious neighbor, and a link to Shakespeare.
**Previous selection**
Sunday, April 14th at 5 pm
**This will also be our selection meeting for summer picks**
When 12-year-old Elise, orphaned since age nine, becomes disheartened by middle school, with its bullies, changing relationships, and higher expectations, keys to long-locked rooms and messages from her late father help her cope.
**Previous selection**
Sunday, March 10th at 5 pm
Ten-year-old Willy needs to win the big dogsled race in order to pay the back taxes on his grandfather's farm--but that means beating the huge Indian mountain man, Stone Fox.
**Previous selection**
Sunday, February 10th at 5 pm
The acclaimed short-story author and poet transports readers from the teeming streets of India to the rolling Himalayas, in this lyrical, exotic, and rich middle-grade fantasy.
**Previous selection**
Sunday, January 13th at 5 pm
Harriet, would-be writer and avid observer of life, records everything she sees and hears. But what is she to do after her treasured notebook falls into the wrong hands?
**Previous selection**
Sunday, December 9th at 5 pm
This meeting will also include a holiday shindig and selection meeting.
Now in paperback, the first installment of a Regency era trilogy starring a feisty heroine with a taste for adventure. Twelve-year-old Katherine Ann Stephenson has just discovered that she’s inherited her late mother’s magical talents, and despite Stepmama’s stern objections, she’s determined to learn how to use them. But with her eldest sister Elissa’s intended fiance, the sinister Sir Neville, showing a dangerous interest in Kat’s magical potential; her other sister, Angeline, wreaking romantic havoc with her own witchcraft; and a highwayman lurking in the forest, Kat’s reckless heroism will be tested to the utmost. If she can learn to control her new powers, will Kat be able to rescue her family and win her sisters their true loves? In this charming blend of Jane Austen–era culture, magical whimsy, and rollicking adventure, readers will find a true friend in the refreshingly unladylike Kat Stephenson.
***Previous selection***
Sunday, November 11th at 5 pm
Almost everybody who has grown up in Chicago knows about the Thorne Rooms. Housed in the deep inside the Chicago Art Institute they are a collection of 68 exquisitely crafted miniature rooms. Each room is set in a different historic period, and every detail is perfect. Some might even say, the rooms are magic. Imagine—what if on a field trip, you discovered a key that allowed you to shrink so that you could sneak inside and explore the rooms' secrets? What if you discovered that others had done so before you? And that someone had left something important behind? Fans of Chasing Vermeer, The Doll People, and The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs Basil E. Frankweiler will be swept up in the magic of this classic feeling debut!
Upcoming Meeting: Sunday, January 13, 2019 @ 5:00pm
PLUS launch of our Teen Advisory Council immediately following discussion