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march
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Join Ms. Ashley for our seven-week after-school winter book club at the Gunn Library! You will read and discuss the adventurous and captivating novel, Aru Shah and The End of
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Join Ms. Ashley for our seven-week after-school winter book club at the Gunn Library! You will read and discuss the adventurous and captivating novel, Aru Shah and The End of Time, by Roshani Chokshi.
“While twelve-year-old Aru Shah’s classmates are jetting off to family vacations in exotic locales, she’ll be spending her autumn break at home, in the Museum of Ancient Indian Art and Culture, waiting for her mom to return from her latest archeological trip. Until she unwittingly frees the Sleeper, an ancient demon whose duty it is to awaken the God of Destruction. Her classmates and beloved mother are frozen in time, and it’s up to Aru to save them…But how is one girl in Spider-Man pajamas supposed to do all
that?”
Each week we will discuss the assigned chapters while enjoying a snack! A copy of the book will be available at the circulation desk upon registration. Please pick up your book before the first meeting and begin reading the assigned weekly chapters.
Time
March 11 (Monday) 3:30 pm - April 8 (Monday) 3:30 pm
Location
Gunn Memorial Library
5 Wykeham Road, Washington CT, 06794
Organizer
Gunn Memorial LibraryPhone: (860) 868-7586
april
Event Details
Join Ms. Ashley for our seven-week after-school winter book club at the Gunn Library! You will read and discuss the adventurous and captivating novel, Aru Shah and The End of
Event Details
Join Ms. Ashley for our seven-week after-school winter book club at the Gunn Library! You will read and discuss the adventurous and captivating novel, Aru Shah and The End of Time, by Roshani Chokshi.
“While twelve-year-old Aru Shah’s classmates are jetting off to family vacations in exotic locales, she’ll be spending her autumn break at home, in the Museum of Ancient Indian Art and Culture, waiting for her mom to return from her latest archeological trip. Until she unwittingly frees the Sleeper, an ancient demon whose duty it is to awaken the God of Destruction. Her classmates and beloved mother are frozen in time, and it’s up to Aru to save them…But how is one girl in Spider-Man pajamas supposed to do all
that?”
Each week we will discuss the assigned chapters while enjoying a snack! A copy of the book will be available at the circulation desk upon registration. Please pick up your book before the first meeting and begin reading the assigned weekly chapters.
Time
March 11 (Monday) 3:30 pm - April 8 (Monday) 3:30 pm
Location
Gunn Memorial Library
5 Wykeham Road, Washington CT, 06794
Organizer
Gunn Memorial LibraryPhone: (860) 868-7586
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Up for discussion in April is Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver. Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single
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Up for discussion in April is Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver.
Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father’s good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. Demon braves the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses. Through all of it, he reckons with his invisibility in a popular culture where even the superheroes have abandoned rural people in favor of cities.
Transposing the Victorian epic novel of Charles Dickens’s David David Copperfield on the effects of institutional poverty and its damage to children, Barbara Kingsolver enlists Dickens’ faith in the transformative powers of a good story. Demon Copperhead speaks for a new generation of lost boys, and all those born into beautiful, cursed places they can’t imagine leaving behind.
Time
(Friday) 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Location
Gunn Memorial Library
5 Wykeham Road, Washington CT, 06794
Organizer
Gunn Memorial LibraryPhone: (860) 868-7586