The Losers Club / Andrew Clements.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Yearling, [2018]Copyright date: ©2017Edition: First Yearling editionDescription: 234 pages ; 20 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780399557583
- 039955758X
- 1544410115
- 9781544410111
- A Junior Library Guild selection (JLG.)
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book | Main Library | Children's Fiction | CLEMENTS ANDREW | Available | 33111011212467 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The beloved New York Times bestselling author of the modern classic Frindle celebrates books and the joy of reading with a new school story to love!
Sixth grader Alec can't put a good book down.
So when Principal Vance lays down the law--pay attention in class, or else --Alec takes action. He can't lose all his reading time, so he starts a club. A club he intends to be the only member of. After all, reading isn't a team sport, and no one would want to join something called the Losers Club, right? But as more and more kids find their way to Alec's club--including his ex-friend turned bully and the girl Alec is maybe starting to like--Alec notices something. Real life might be messier than his favorite books, but it's just as interesting.
With The Losers Club, Andrew Clements brings us a new school story that's a love letter to books and to reading and that reminds us that sometimes the best stories are the ones that happen off the page--our own!
Winner of the Rhode Island Children's Book Award (2019)
Winner of the International Reading Association and Children's Book Council: Children's Choices List (2018)
Winner of the Garden State Children's Book Award (2020)
2021 Grand Canyon Reader Award Nominee
A Kansas William White Master List Selection (2018 & 2019)
An Arkansas Charlie May Simon Children's Book Award Nominee (2019)
A California Young Reader Medal Nominee (2019)
A Nebraska Golden Sower Award Nominee (2019)
A Virginia Young Readers Program Award Nominee (2019)
A Minnesota Maud Heart Lovelace Award Nominee (2019)
A Missouri Mark Twain Award Nominee (2019)
An Oregon Reader's Choice Award Nominee (2019)
Praise for The Losers Club !
* "Clements's latest is engaging and funny. A laugh-out-loud first purchase for all middle grade collections, and a solid read-aloud choice for classrooms." -- School Library Journal , Starred Review
"Clements is out to celebrate reading in all its obsessiveness, and...tosses in shout-outs to a passel of other writers. [The Losers Club] gives fried bookworms everywhere the satisfaction of knowing that friends may desert them (if only temporarily) but books never will. "-- The New York Times
Praise for Andrew Clements!
"Clements is a genius." -- The New York Times
"We have never read an Andrew Clements book that we haven't loved." -- The Washington Post
"A Yearling book."
Alec, a sixth-grade bookworm always in trouble for reading instead of listening and participating in class, starts a book club, solely to have a place to read, and discovers that real life, although messy, can be as exciting as the stories in his favorite books.
Sixth grader Alec can't put a good book down. So when Principal Vance lays down the law-pay attention in class, or else-Alec takes action. He can't lose all his reading time, so he starts a club. A club he intends to be the only member of. After all, reading isn't a team sport, and no one would want to join something called the Losers Club, right? But as more and more kids find their way to Alec's club-including his ex-friend turned bully and the girl Alec is maybe starting to like-Alec notices something. Real life might be messier than his favorite books, but it's just as interesting. With The Losers Club, Andrew Clements brings us a new school story that's a love letter to books and to reading and that reminds us that sometimes the best stories are the ones that happen off the page-our own! Praise for The Losers Club! * Clements's latest is engaging and funny. A laugh-out-loud first purchase for all middle grade collections, and a solid read-aloud choice for classrooms.-School Library Journal, Starred Review Clements is out to celebrate reading in all its obsessiveness, and ... tosses in shout-outs to a passel of other writers. (The Losers Club) gives fried bookworms everywhere the satisfaction of knowing that friends may desert them (if only temporarily) but books never will.-The New York Times Praise for Andrew Clements! oClements is a genius.o -The New York Times oWe have never read an Andrew Clements book that we haven't loved.o -The Washington Post.
Ages 8-12.
Accelerated Reader MG 5.5 7.0.
Includes bibliographical references.
A Junior Library Guild selection (JLG.)