Off the Page: A Teen Book Club
A book discussion for grades 8-12.
Love to read? Meet at Culver's and add your voice to the banter while enjoying frozen custard - the library's treat!
This discussion group is free and open to all. Signup is required. Sign up online here, by telephone at 224-543-1486, or in person at the Youth Desk in the library.
A print copy of this month's book (yours to keep) is reserved for you when you register. Pick up your copy at the Youth Desk.
Current Discussions
February
Didn't See That Coming by Jesse Q. Sutanto
A hilariously fresh and romantic send-up to You’ve Got Mail about a gamer girl with a secret identity and the online bestie she’s never met IRL until she unwittingly transfers to his school
Monday, February 17, 7 PM • REGISTER
March
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Ready Player One takes place in the not-so-distant future--the world has turned into a very bleak place, but luckily there is OASIS, a virtual reality world that is a vast online utopia. People can plug into OASIS to play, go to school, earn money, and even meet other people (or at least they can meet their avatars), and for protagonist Wade Watts it certainly beats passing the time in his grim, poverty-stricken real life.
Monday, March 17, 7 PM • REGISTER
April
Lore by Alexandra Bracken
Every seven years there is a hunt offering mortal descendants of gods the opportunity to claim their divinity by killing any of nine immortals made mortal for one night. Lore Perseous has no desire to participate in the Agon, embittered because her family was killed by a rival who then ascended to godhood. When a childhood friend asks her to help, and a wounded god offers an alliance, Lore overlooks the steep cost of this decision in exchange for vengeance.
Monday, April 21, 7 PM • REGISTER
