I am starting a book club in my school?

Any suggestion of a really good book. Something that is fun to read but still have a lot to discuss about. Also something that doesnt have a lot of pages since I am not so sure how fast people read and I want them to read at least one book a month. Also do you have a great ideas what we can do in the book club, like I dont know just to spicen the club up and not let it be all reading. I was thinking about bringing some writers since my teacher know some, but anything else?I am starting a book club in my school?
maybe instead of certain books to be read, let the club members pick from the style that appeals to them.



one thing that may be fun is to have a day where you dress up as your favorite character.



another idea is to write a short book as a club. brainstorm and agree on the theme, charterers names etc. try to get your short story published. it would be fun and you will learn alot about the book writing process



enjoy!
How old are you hon? That helps a lot.



Then I would choose The Road by Cormac Mc Carthy. It really makes you think. And it won this year's Pulitzer Prize. Not very long or hard to read, but something you will never forget. Pax- CI am starting a book club in my school?
I highly suggest reading Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom. It's a fairly short read and a very heartwarming story (which was tragically turned into a very crappy movie).
I recommend the children's novel written as a story poem in rhyme, 46 pages titled THE SILK ROAD KIDS' 10TH CENTURY ADVENTUE IN KHAZARIA POEMS %26amp; LYRICS BOOK, by Anne Hart. (lulu.com) publisher.



Or the 174-page novel titled: The Perfect Mitzvah Gift Book (novel of 10th century Khazaria) by Anne Hart, ASJA Press, http://www.iuniverse.com. This novel is longer and is written as a diary novel in first person from the point of view of a 15-year old girl and a 13-year old boy, brother and sister, traveling with their parents from Kiev to Jerusalem in the year 965 CE, just as their Khazar Empire has been destroyed by prince Svyatoslav of Kiev, and they must walk from their Khazaria homeland to the Middle East in disguise. Browse the book free at: http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_鈥?/a>



A Perfect Mitzvah Gift Book: Time Travel with the Kagan's Kids to 10th Century Kiev, "When Jews Of Eastern Europe Had No Hope Other Than The Grace Of The Almighty, The Coming Of The Meshiach, Or The Arrival Of The Khazars."

By Anne Hart



The publisher's Web site reads:



Let this first person proto-Bar or Bat Mitzvah gift story book novel, although fiction, guide you through the walkways of anthropology and ethnology in this Kagan's Kids of Khazaria Time-Travel Adventures, the perfect book for a Mitzvah gift for thirteen to fifteen-year old readers and also for their parents.



Book Description



There may not have been any concept of Bar or Bat Mitzvah in 10th century Kiev 'yet,' but that wouldn't stop the nearly grown children of the Kagan of the Khazars from arranging the appropriate rite of passage and blessing for the changing of the societies around them which they knew鈥攖he pagan Vikings, Rus, and Pechenegs surrounding Kiev, the Volga Finnic peoples of the Urals, the eternal Silk Road, Christian Byzantium to the south, the Caucasus Mountaineers, the grassland steppes, the rabbi-scholars of Constantinople and Spain, the Turks arriving from Central Asia, and the Islamic Caliphate of Persia and Baghdad to the East. Each encounter began a new concept and framework for their time-travel adventures.



The garden of the Khazars is a storyteller's paradise, especially during the time that their ruler's family, friends, and associates turned Jewish, and the Kagan of the Khazars got tied up in the belly of a Viking Ship, rescued by his thirteen-year-old son, and his daughter, the teenage, time-traveling Princess Tarbagatay rode between the fourth and tenth centuries with the Queen of the Steppes. Welcome to anthropology through fiction and my series for all storytellers on tall tales of Medieval Khazaria.



Let this first person proto-Bar or Bat Mitzvah gift story book novel, although fiction, guide you through the walkways of anthropology and ethnology in my Kagan's Kids of Khazaria Time-Travel Adventures, the perfect book for a Mitzvah gift for thirteen to fifteen-year old readers and also for their parents. The author of many multicultural and multiethnic novels reveals the nuances of anthropology through fiction鈥攕tories, novels, and plays鈥攍et this novel and the treat that follows be your mentor to open doors to new opportunities, choices, roads, and destinations.I am starting a book club in my school?
What you need to make sure is that the books you choose are books normally read by people your age. No matter how fantastic the book is, if it doesn't interest other students, no one will care enough to go to the club, and then theres no point for the club at all.



I did the same thing you're doing, and after failing once, I realized the books really need to be picked by all the members of the club. You can suggest the books but no one is going to buy a book they think is a chore to read. Remember, you are asking people to buy or rent the book.



The key is to make the club something beyond that of which we get in English class. That means it has to be fun. Spiciness is good. Start off with simple books that are easily discussed and very popular in the young adult circle.



On that pivotal first meeting, talk about what you want to accomplish with the club, but allow a lot of time for people to discuss what they're interested in accomplishing and what they would like for a book. Tell people to take the week and consider seriously what books they would like to read in the club and on the second week talk about it some more. Then on the third week, vote.



Spiciness in our club consisted of:

*Regression day (once, we did it for a month) where people bring in their favorite childhood picture book, read it to the class, and then have a discussion (if possible). Lots of laughing and memories.

*Celebrity (meaning popular teacher on campus) Discusser who reads the books and joins in on the conversations.

*Movie day where you watch the movie that goes with the book and you discuss how wrong the movie is.

*Tea Parties (where you get dressed up and...have a tea party!)

*Days where we talked about things we were actually reading in English class to help each other out and get prepared for test or whatever.



Learning from experience, here are some things to expect:

*You're club will be all girls. Don't ask me why, but guys don't do book clubs...ever...

*People will suggest some really stupid books that could never provide enough literary sustenance to support an actual discussion.

*There will always be one person who decks out of the club for a couple of weeks because they can't stand whatever in the next novel.

*Someone will suggest Harry Potter (or now Twilight). While theres stuff to discuss about Harry Potter, Twilight would lead to nothing but sequels and sighs over Edwards and frustrations about the lack of Bella's common sense and/or backbone.

*Most discussions will lead to personal stuff. I guess its bound to happen when you get a group of girls together in one room and ask them to discuss things. It can get really serious (and if you have a book with some sad crap in it or serious issues, I'm serious when I say bring some tissue).



P.S.: As I'm sure you know, food at any club event is like putting a bug zapper out on a humid summer night. Buy a couple a pizzas through school funds (I know its hard because you have to go through all that bureaucracy crap, but its totally worth it!) during that first meeting and you'll have billions of people show up.



Some books I suggest:

*Feed by M.T.

*The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

*The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

*Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt

*Enders Game by Orson Scott Card

*Diary by Chuck Palahnuik

*To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

*The Secrete Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

*Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
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i was thinking about you're problem and i think that you should have about 5-7 books with a summary of each of them and then as a group you vote on which one to read.

Some books i suggest for your book club are:

1.East by Edith Pattou

2.What My mother Doesn鈥檛 Know by Sonya Sones

3.Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah

4.Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella

5.A million little pieces by James Frey

6.The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

7.Truesight by David Stahler Jr.

and if i had to pick just one book out of those for you're slub to read i probably would pick #5 or #3 because both are based on true stories and are inspiring and would be good for discussion

If you're leaning torward a short book go for #3

But if you're leaning torward a longer book go for #5

also you can go to amazon.com for summaries on all the books i told you about

A Million Little Pieces Link is:

http://www.amazon.com/Million-Little-Pie鈥?/a>

Chinese Cinderalla's link is:

http://www.amazon.com/Chinese-Cinderella鈥?/a>

ok so hope i helped

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The House That Jack Built, The Sugar Cookie Murder,

The Cat Who Came To Breakfast, The Chocolate Bear Trap,

The Invitaion To Murder, Robin Hood, Sir Lancelot and

if you cand find it, Murder, m=murder, LIttle Star. This last one involves a girl, around your age (perhaps) who is a movie star.
lol idk.

can i b in ur book club when i go to cali next yr?? pls mari!! hahja
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Child Called It



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Twlight



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Great idea good luck
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