CHS Breakfast Bookclub

This Month's Book Club Selection:

Hawksong by Amelia Atwater Rhodes

Join us on February 5th in the LRC at 7am

On the Menu: hot cocoa & bagels and lots of discussion

CHS Breakfast Book Club News

Welcome and Congratulations to our newly elected officers: Liz Fortner - President, Gary Kurowski - Vice President, Laura Dalla Costa - Secretary, Edgar Hernandez and Haley Soutar - Publicity

• Book Club is off to a great start, we more that tripled our membership from last year. Way to go WE-GO!

• We sponsored our very first author visit in the past two years, welcoming Holly Black author of Tithe, Valiant, and The Good Neighbors her latest book and first graphic novel. Holly spent an entertaining hour at CHS discussing where she gets her inspiration to write novels about fairies living in the 21st Century.

• Planning and discussions are on the way about Read Across America in March and a possible Coffee House in April to kick off National Poetry Month.

• Our first drawing of the year was held to select a winner for the Abe Award drawing; congratulations to Kaylee Sayner

• Each month CHS Book Club will select a participating Abe Award reader to win a $10.00 gift certificate to Borders Book Store. Read those Abe Award titles to win!

Our next book club meeting is on November 7th, look for your 7:00 am pass in your advisory on November 5th.

Abe Lincoln Award Nominee - The Tenth Circle by Jodi Piocult

Trixie an average looking freshman begins dating a handsome, popular, junior. Life is good until Jason breaks up with Trixie. She and her friend make a plan to get Jason back but the plan backfires changing Trixie and Jason's life forever. Read The Tenth Circle, you won't be disappointed!

CHS Breakfast Book Club - Summer Read

The Tenth Circle by Jodi Picoult will keep you in mystery until the very end. Trixie is going to be a freshman in high school when she meets a very handsome upper classman at a summer party. Jason is everything Trixie isn't; popular, outgoing, and a super jock. Life was good until Jason breaks up with Trixie and she enters into self destructive behavior. As Trixies' life unfolds so does the mystery. Jodi Pocoult keeps you unraveling the mystery until the very end. Read: The Tenth Circle this summer and enjoy!

Book of the Month: Maximum Ride

Please join us on May 9th for our last continental breakfast and discussion for 2007-2008 school year.