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 * Recommended Reading List** (annotated)

Brenda's recommendations for the recommended reading list.

Kunzel, B. & Hardesty, C. (2006). //The Teen-centred book club. Readers into leaders//. Westport, CN: Libraries Unlimited.

This comprehensive book is a guide for teachers interested in setting up book clubs for tweens and teens, nine to thirteen-year-olds. In an easy to read style it covers the what, how and why of organizing clubs. It also provides suggestions for different types of clubs, troubleshooting and evaluating your club.

The Book club. (2009, October, 26). An international book club for twitterers. follow @thebookclub. Retrieved from: [|https://twitter.com/#!/thebookclub]

While this club is deactivated, a quick look at the set-up and types of discussion questions posted opens a range of possibilities for teachers of older students. For example: "Do you ever abandon books before finishing them? If no, why not? If yes, what was the last one you left unfinished? #thebookclub" The Book club.(2009a, October 26). [Twitter post]. Retrieved from: [|https://twitter.com/#!/thebookclub/status/5167633465]

"Alright, bookies, question for today: share your favourite first sentence in a book. go!" [Twitter post]. The Book club. (2009b, Sept. 21). Retrieved from: [|https://twitter.com/#!/thebookclub/status/4157598055]


 * Selway, L. (2003, April). //Leading a professional book club: Staff development to build understanding and grapple with difficult issues.// Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL. Retrieved from: []** - Linda Ganser Selway writes of her personal experiences co-facilitating a professional book club in her school.

[|Anime Club] (a bit of a stretch as books are not central to the article but motivating this group of readers is) -cosplay, gaming, conventions (hard-to-reach teen group)

[|The Evolving Book Club] Dempsey, B. (2011). The Evolving Book Group. //Library Journal,// 136(14) 24 - 26. " One of the most profound ways to experience any book is to share feelings about it with others in a program libraries do especially well: the book discussion group. Like the format of the book, discussion groups are evolving and reaching new markets. What hasn't changed is their inherent charisma--readers love to talk about what they've read.

 "The joy and mystery of reading is that each of us reads a different book from everyone else…even when it's the same book," says Nancy Pearl, author of the // Book Lust // readers' advisory (RA) titles and // LJ // 's 2011 Librarian of the Year. "We bring all of our life experiences to the reading of a book, any book, and each person's history is different from everyone else's."  Pearl feels that, in fact, each reader "creates" a book that's unique and that good discussions arise because of the differences in how we interpret what we've read. It's "not so much (or at all) in terms of whether or not we liked the book but rather how we understand the behavior of the characters and their choices," she says. "

"Not Your Ordinary Book Group (ow.ly/5V1j3) has a unique structure: it meets in the physical library monthly and also connects readers daily online through a blog." "The virtual component allows enormous flexibility without losing the sense of community."

"LibraryThing (and LibraryThing for Libraries)--the free, popular social network for readers--includes a variety of Web 2.0 tools that libraries can parlay into online book discussion groups. In its forum system (called, not surprisingly, "Groups"), libraries can start their own online book group, taking it public for the entire LibraryThing community to engage with or keep it private and invite specific members to join." [|One Great Idea] (Seattle Reads project) "i ntrigued with the power of books to unite diverse audiences."

"expanded the book club concept to encompass the entire city, launching a book discussion that incorporated all the branches, bookstores, and even cultural organizations."

" The library called on local book groups to include the book in their schedules and organized library events and readings."

" Today, One Book programs are held in libraries, colleges, bookstores, and cultural centers across North America, Australia, and the UK"

"The Center for the Book at LC has a One Book web site ([|www.loc.gov/loc/cfbook/onebook]) that tracks One Book programs on three continents and allows visitors to see programs by state or book choice."

"Beyond the Book ( [|www.beyondthebookproject.org] ) is a Canadian research project that aims to calculate the effect of mass readings. Its focus is whether this literary phenomenon really attracts new readers and marginalized populations." [|The High School Book Club - Now with Kindles]

Harland, P., Plante, A., Marker, J., Falter, C. Thompson, K. Guilmett, K. & Hogan, M. (2010). The High School Book Club--Now With Kindles!  //Teacher Librarian,//, 37(5) p. 57- 59. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">The group is student run: students choose the books, lead the conversations, and decide when we meet. We currently meet monthly in the librarian's office where we share snacks, openly discuss any issue the students are facing, and laugh a lot."

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">"During fall 2009, our library received a grant to purchase twenty Kindles. We decided, as a pilot project to encourage student use, we would put our next book club title on the Kindle and observe any changes in the students' reading behavior."

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">-students helped choose titles for kindles, discussion (both + and -) re: using kindles from student perspective

" <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">Because of the Kindles, our already flourishing book club has become more dynamic and engaged."

[|The book club exploded] " <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">One leader, 12 readers, and a few well-thumbed copies of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. That's all a book club once required. No more. The runaway popularity of book clubs has brought with it a whole new set of possibilities. Thematic discussion? A fiction/nonfiction mix? Videoconferencing? Multimedia exploration? With these and other approaches, librarians nationwide are successfully restructuring chitchat about beloved classics or recent best sellers to deliver a richer and more vibrant experience for everyone."

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">-some interesting ideas, e.g. thematic clubs, but from the perspective of adult clubs at public libraries.

[|How I learned to run a really popular book club] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">"The 2000 Programme for International Student Assessment (International Reading Association, 2003), a comparison of student achievement, found that "motivation to read and amount of time spent reading are important contributors to the gap between good and poor readers" (pp. 6-7)." <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">"Block and Mangieri (2002) found that over the last two decades, teachers have only marginally increased their abilities to promote recreational reading. Reading at Risk:<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> A Survey of Literary Reading in America (as cited in Azzam, 2005) finished on a somber note: "If the decline in reading continues at this rate, 'literary reading as a leisure activity will virtually disappear in half a century'" (p. 88)." <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">-describes districts extracurricular book club called Bookfest <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">-new clubs, treasure hunt, make it fun, prizes, incentives, multimedia, party, food, trips, sleepover <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">-middle-school TL [|Book clubbing!]

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">Book Clubbing! presents step-by-step instructions and a series of activities to form what Littlejohn calls "flexible book clubs" that allow the participants to choose what they read." (I'll try to get a copy of this book) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">The first couple of chapters are available online [|here]. I haven't tried printing any of it yet. [|The Eagles book club] "Doing some research on Book Clubs, I found that there were not too many in highschools but they were quite popular in Public Libraries" "The answer was unanimous: they wanted to be able to pick their own books. In the end, students read books based on their own interest and could actually exchange them with each other" -weekly lunchtime club, Canadian, high school, step by step how to set up and run

[|Two for the road] (this one is very forward thinking - collaboration between 2 American TLs- great use of web tools) " <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">Whether talking over Twitter, posting on their shared blog, or co-teaching over Skype, school librarians John Schumacher (below) and Shannon Miller (right) give whole new meaning to the concept of collaboration--and they're extending their digital pas de deux into the summer"

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">-gr. 4 - 6 summer reading club, promotional animoto, designated text for each gr. level, TL's moderate on-line discussion, contest - submit photos of yourself reading in the strangest places, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">**Community Book Club** - I thought this might be helpful as it is an actual study done over two years. It talks about changes in literacy practices, etc. Don't know that - will have to look at the whole collection of what we gather. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">Creating Transformational Spaces: High School Book Clubs with Inner City Adolescent Females

SLJournal article "Care and Feeding of a High School Book Club"

Info on starting book clubs with young children (I like the questions included) @http://robin.hubpages.com/hub/How-to-Start-a-Book-Club-for-Grade-School-Children