book clubs (discussion groups)

Presents a guide to creating and managing a book club for young adults, including information on facilitating reading instruction in small group contexts, engaging students with challenging books, and teaching reading comprehension through discussion. Includes lesson plans and index.

Isis moves in with her sister Egypt and Egypt's husband Rashad hoping for a new start, and when Egypt asks for Isis's help in starting a family, Isis's old feelings for Rashad resurface and threaten to destroy them all.

A guide to creating and facilitating literature circles in middle and high school classrooms that are designed to help students read actively, interpret and evaluate texts, ask questions, and lead discussion groups.

Offers a month-by-month guide for creating book club get togethers, featuring fiction and nonfiction reading selections and recipes for easy-to-prepare cocktails, finger foods, sit-down dinners, and snacks based on the books.

Five women and one man in California's Central Valley begin a six-month series of romantic entanglements after forming a Jane Austen book discussion club.

The authors presents a language arts curriculum that incorporates literature-based discussions to help teen and pre-teen girls deal with specific issues and develop confidence.

Presents a guide to leading a book discussion group, for parents and children, with information on how to foster bonds between kids and books, and examples from book discussions on how to engage reader's in the elements of story's theme, setting, character, and conflict.

Juliet Ashton, a thirty-year-old author, writes to her publisher expressing her desire to stop covering the aftermath of WWII, but Guernsey farmer Dawsey Adams invites neighbors to write to Juliet with their stories, which puts her off at first but eventually helps her find inspiration for her next book, and her life.

Explains how to organize a book club for kids and presents resources and activities for use with fifty books at grade levels 1-5, 4-7, 6-8, and 9 and up; each book profile includes a synopsis, author background, the author's Web site, a recipe, activities, discussion topics, a list of film adaptations, and further reading suggestions.