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Haddon, Mark. The curious incident of the dog in the night-time [kit] : [a book discussion kit] / Mark Haddon.

Title: The curious incident of the dog in the night-time [kit] : [a book discussion kit] / Mark Haddon. 2011.

Despite his overwhelming fear of interacting with people, Christopher, a mathematically-gifted, autistic fifteen-year-old boy, decides to investigate the murder of a neighbor's dog and uncovers secret information about his mother.

ArchivalResource: 10 identical v. in tote bag 31 x 37 x 11 cm. + 1 notebook with discussion guide, author information, discussion group tips.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/706710927 View

L'Engle, Madeleine. A wrinkle in time [kit] : [a book discussion kit] / Madeleine L'Engle.

Title: A wrinkle in time [kit] : [a book discussion kit] / Madeleine L'Engle. 2012.

Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government.

ArchivalResource: 8 identical v. in tote bag 31 x 37 x 11 cm. + 1 notebook with discussion guide, author information, discussion group tips.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/775799275 View

Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849. Nevermore [kit] : prose and poems : [book discussion kit] / Edgar Allen Poe ; [introduction by John Michael].

Title: Nevermore [kit] : prose and poems : [book discussion kit] / Edgar Allen Poe ; [introduction by John Michael]. 2010.

A collection of stories, poems, and an essay by Edgar Allan Poe.

ArchivalResource: 10 identical v. in tote bag 31 x 37 x 11 cm. + 1 notebook with discussion guide, author information, discussion group tips.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/501822450 View

Klise, Kate. Regarding the fountain [kit] : a tale, in letters, of liars and leaks [a book discussion kit] / Kate Klise ; illustrated by M. Sarah Klise.

Title: Regarding the fountain [kit] : a tale, in letters, of liars and leaks [a book discussion kit] / Kate Klise ; illustrated by M. Sarah Klise. 2012.

When the principal asks a fifth-grader to write a letter regarding the purchase of a new drinking fountain for their school, he finds that all sorts of chaos results.

ArchivalResource: 8 identical v. in tote bag 31 x 37 x 11 cm. + 1 notebook with discussion guide, author information, discussion group tips.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/775799382 View

DuPrau, Jeanne. The city of Ember [kit] : [book discussion kit] / Jeanne DuPrau.

Title: The city of Ember [kit] : [book discussion kit] / Jeanne DuPrau. 2009.

In the year 241, twelve-year-old Lina trades jobs on Assignment Day to be a Messenger to run to new places in her decaying but beloved city, perhaps even to glimpse Unknown Regions.

ArchivalResource: 8 identical v. in tote bag 45 x 37 x 17 cm. + 1 unabridged audiobook (6 sound discs [6 hr., 51 min.] : digital, 4 3/4 in.) + 1 notebook with discussion guide, author information, discussion group tips.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/367589640 View

Ozick, Cynthia. The Shawl [kit] : [book discussion kit] / Cynthia Ozick.

Title: The Shawl [kit] : [book discussion kit] / Cynthia Ozick. 2009.

A short story and a novella intertwine to offer a study of the Holocaust and its aftermath as Rosa Lublin witnesses the brutal death of her baby daughter in a concentration camp and, thirty years later, must struggle to cope with her emotional devastation.

ArchivalResource: 10 identical v. in tote bag 31 x 37 x 11 cm. + 1 unabridged audiobook (2 sound discs (2 hrs.) : digital, 4 3/4 in.) + 1 notebook with discussion guide, author information, discussion group tips.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/297439857 View

Bennett, Alan. The uncommon reader [kit] : [book discussion kit] / Alan Bennett.

Title: The uncommon reader [kit] : [book discussion kit] / Alan Bennett. 2009.

Obliged to borrow a book when her corgis stray into a mobile library, the Queen discovers a passion for reading, setting the palace upon its head and causing the royal head of Great Britain to question her role in the monarchy.

ArchivalResource: 10 identical v. in tote bag 31 x 37 x 11 cm. + 1 unabridged audiobook (3 sound discs (2 hr., 42 min.) : digital, 4 3/4 in.) + 1 notebook with discussion guide, author information, discussion group tips.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/297439629 View

Haddix, Margaret Peterson. Among the hidden [kit] : [book discussion kit] / Margaret Peterson Haddix.

Title: Among the hidden [kit] : [book discussion kit] / Margaret Peterson Haddix. 2009.

In a future where the Population Police enforce the law limiting a family to only two children, Luke has lived all his twelve years in isolation and fear on his family's farm, until another "third" convinces him that the government is wrong.

ArchivalResource: 8 identical v. in tote bag 31 x 37 x 11 cm. + 1 notebook with discussion guide, author information, discussion group tips.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/367592523 View

Suzuki, David, 1936-. The sacred balance [kit] : rediscovering our place in nature, updated and expanded : [book discussion kit] / David Suzuki with Amanda McConnell & Adrienne Mason.

Title: The sacred balance [kit] : rediscovering our place in nature, updated and expanded : [book discussion kit] / David Suzuki with Amanda McConnell & Adrienne Mason. 2009.

Ten years after this important book was first published, David Suzuki re-examines our place in the natural world in light of the recent sweeping environmental changes and advances in scientific knowledge.

ArchivalResource: 10 identical v. in tote bag 31 x 37 x 11 cm. + 1 notebook with discussion guide, author information, discussion group tips.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/297537494 View

Hiaasen, Carl. Flush [kit] : [a book discussion kit] / Carl Hiaasen.

Title: Flush [kit] : [a book discussion kit] / Carl Hiaasen. 2012.

With their father jailed for sinking a river boat, Noah Underwood and his younger sister, Abbey, must gather evidence that the owner of this floating casino is emptying his bilge tanks into the protected waters around their Florida Keys home.

ArchivalResource: 8 identical v. in tote bag 31 x 37 x 11 cm. + 1 notebook with discussion guide, author information, discussion group tips.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/775798896 View

Strout, Elizabeth. Olive Kitteridge [kit] : [book discussion kit] / Elizabeth Strout.

Title: Olive Kitteridge [kit] : [book discussion kit] / Elizabeth Strout. 2009.

At the edge of the continent, in the small town of Crosby, Maine, lives Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher who deplores the changes in her town and in the world at large but doesn't always recognize the changes in those around her.

ArchivalResource: 8 identical v. in tote bag 31 x 37 x 11 cm. + 1 unabridged audiobook (9 sound discs [10 hrs.] : digital, 4 3/4 in.) + 1 notebook with discussion guide, author information, discussion group tips.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/367612454 View

Hoffman, Alice. The red garden [kit] : [a book discussion kit] / Alice Hoffman.

Title: The red garden [kit] : [a book discussion kit] / Alice Hoffman. 2011.

A young wounded civil war solider is saved by a passionate neighbor, a woman meets a fiercely human historical character, a poet falls in love with a blind man, and a mysterious traveler comes to town in the year when summer never arrives. At the center of everyone's life is a mysterious garden where only red plants can grow, and where the truth can be found by those who dare to look.

ArchivalResource: 9 identical v. in tote bag 31 x 37 x 11 cm. + 1 unabridged audiobook (6 sound discs [7.5 hr.] : digital, 4 3/4 in.) + 1 notebook with discussion guide, author information, discussion group tips.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/732074544 View

Jones, Lloyd. Mister Pip [kit] : [book discussion kit] / Llyod Jones.

Title: Mister Pip [kit] : [book discussion kit] / Llyod Jones. 2009.

On a copper-rich tropical island shattered by war, on which survival is a daily struggle, eccentric Mr. Watts, the only white man left after the other teachers flee, spends his day reading to the local children from Charles Dickens's classic Great Expectations.

ArchivalResource: 8 identical v. in tote bag 31 x 37 x 11 cm. + 1 notebook with discussion guide, author information, discussion group tips.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/367599101 View

French, Tana. The likeness [kit] : [book discussion kit] / Tana French.

Title: The likeness [kit] : [book discussion kit] / Tana French. 2009.

Six months after the events of In the Woods, Detective Cassie Maddox is still trying to recover. She's transferred out of the murder squad and started a relationship with Detective Sam O'Neill, but she's too badly shaken to make a commitment to him or toher career. Then Sam calls her to the scene of his new case: a young woman found stabbed to death in a small town outside Dublin. The dead girl's ID says her name is Lexie Madison--the identity Cassie used years ago as an undercover detective--and she looks exactly like Cassie--From publisher description.

ArchivalResource: 10 identical v. in tote bag 31 x 37 x 11 cm. + 1 unabridged audiobook (20 sound discs (22.5 hrs.) : digital, 4 3/4 in.) + 1 notebook with discussion guide, author information, discussion group tips.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/297444647 View

Ferraris, Zoe. Finding Nouf [kit] : [book discussion kit] / Zoe Ferraris.

Title: Finding Nouf [kit] : [book discussion kit] / Zoe Ferraris. 2009.

When sixteen-year-old Nouf goes missing and is found drowned in the desert outside Jeddah, Nayir--a desert guide hired by her prominent family to search for her--feels compelled to find out what really happened.

ArchivalResource: 8 identical v. in tote bag 45 x 37 x 17 cm. + 1 notebook with discussion guide, author information, discussion group tips.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/367601186 View

Pennypacker, Sara. The talented Clementine [kit] : [book discussion kit] / Sara Pennypacker ; pictures by Marla Frazee.

Title: The talented Clementine [kit] : [book discussion kit] / Sara Pennypacker ; pictures by Marla Frazee. 2009.

Eight-year-old Clementine, convinced that she has no talents, tries to find a way to avoid participating in the class talent show.

ArchivalResource: 8 identical v. in tote bag 31 x 37 x 11 cm. + 1 notebook with discussion guide, author information, discussion group tips.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/367601229 View

Tinti, Hannah. The good thief [kit] : [a book discussion kit] / Hannah Tinti.

Title: The good thief [kit] : [a book discussion kit] / Hannah Tinti. 2011.

Growing up in a New England orphanage unaware of his family and of how he had lost his left hand as an infant, twelve-year-old Ren is terrified of the future, until a young man shows up claiming to be his long-lost brother, with whom he embarks on an adventure-filled odyssey of scam artists, petty criminals, and resurrection men.

ArchivalResource: 9 identical v. in tote bag 31 x 37 x 11 cm. + 1 notebook with discussion guide, author information, discussion group tips.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/711780092 View

Yang, Gene Luen. American born Chinese [kit] : [book discussion kit] / Gene Luen Yang ; coloring by Lark Pien.

Title: American born Chinese [kit] : [book discussion kit] / Gene Luen Yang ; coloring by Lark Pien. 2009.

Alternates three interrelated stories about the problems of young Chinese Americans trying to participate in the popular culture.

ArchivalResource: 8 identical v. in tote bag 45 x 37 x 17 cm. + 1 notebook with discussion guide, author information, discussion group tips.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/367597532 View

Rowling, J. K. The tales of Beedle the Bard [kit] : [book discussion kit] / J.K. Rowling.

Title: The tales of Beedle the Bard [kit] : [book discussion kit] / J.K. Rowling. 2008.

The Tales of Beedle the Bard, a wizarding classic, first came to Muggle readers' attention in the book known as Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Now, thanks to Hermione Granger's new translation from the ancient runes, we present this stunning edition with an introduction, notes, and illustrations by J.K. Rowling, and extensive commentary by Albus Dumbledore ...

ArchivalResource: 10 identical v. in tote bag 31 x 37 x 11 cm. + 1 notebook with discussion guide, author information, discussion group tips.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/297426242 View

Earley, Tony. Jim the boy [kit] : a novel [book discussion kit] / Tony Earley.

Title: Jim the boy [kit] : a novel [book discussion kit] / Tony Earley. 2010.

Describes the life of a young boy in a small southern town in the early twentieth century as he begins to explore the confusing adult world that surrounds him and begins to take his own first steps toward maturity.

ArchivalResource: 10 identical v. in tote bag 31 x 37 x 11 cm. + 1 notebook with discussion guide, author information, discussion group tips.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/501820000 View