The last meeting of the Books & Bagels book discussion group for the school year will take place at the time and date listed above.
Please join Mary Jo to discuss Liar & Spy by Rebecca Stead. This title is also available as an eBook in Overdrive as well as print copies and CD audio copies through interlibrary loan in MeL. Please call us, 517-351-2420, ext 6845 if you need assistance getting a copy of Liar & Spy to read.
I'm excited to announce that the activity for this meeting will be painting on canvas using pointillism style like artist Georges Seurat. If you read the book, you'll know why we'll use this style.
Please sign up at the children's desk or call 351-2420, ext 6855 and leave a message.
Thank you to Panera Bagels in Frandor for their continued suppport providing the group with yummy bagels and cream cheese!
Saturday, April 13th
2-3 pm
For children in grades 4-6
Join us for juice and bagels, discussion of the book Breadcrumbs by Anne Ursu, and a fun activity! This fantasy book is full of interesting content that provokes a wide range of responses in readers. Listen to a fascinating interview with Anne Ursu from NPR's
Eight Keys is about Elisa and Franklin - a boy and girl who have always been the best of friends. Elise has always lived in the big house with her loving Uncle and Aunt, because Elise's parents died when she was too young to remember them. There's always been a barn behhind the house with eight locked doors on the second floor.
When Elise and Franklin start middle school, things feel all wrong. Bullying. Not fitting in. Franklin suddenly seems babyish. Then, soon after her 12th birthday, Elise receives a mysterious key left for her by her father. A key that unlocks one of the eight doors upstairs in the barn...
Books and Bagels is for grades 4-6. Registration is required for Books and Bagels.
February's book is A Nest for Celeste by Henry Cole. Join us for a discussion about Celeste, a mouse longing for a real home. Celeste becomes a source of inspiration to teenaged Joseph, assistant to the artist and naturalist John James Audubon, at a New Orleans plantation in 1821.
February's book is A Nest for Celeste by Henry Cole. Join us for a discussion about Celeste, a mouse longing for a real home. Celeste becomes a source of inspiration to teenaged Joseph, assistant to the artist and naturalist John James Audubon, at a New Orleans plantation in 1821.
Eight Keys is about Elisa and Franklin - a boy and girl who have always been the best of friends. Elise has always lived in the big house with her loving Uncle and Aunt, because Elise's parents died when she was too young to remember them. There's always been a barn behhind the house with eight locked doors on the second floor.
When Elise and Franklin start middle school, things feel all wrong. Bullying. Not fitting in. Franklin suddenly seems babyish. Then, soon after her 12th birthday, Elise receives a mysterious key left for her by her father. A key that unlocks one of the eight doors upstairs in the barn...
Books and Bagels is for grades 4-6. Registration is required for Books and Bagels.
Books & Bagels, a book discussion group for 4th-6th grade children, has been an ongoing program here at the East Lansing Public Library since 2002. Many awesome titles have been read in these ten years!
For the full list of over 50 titles that have been read by the Books and Bagels group since 2002, click here.
It's a new school year and the first meeting of Books and Bagels, a book discussion group for children in grades 4-6 will be held Saturday, October 6, from 2-3 pm.
I'm breaking from convention and choosing TWO titles that are very similar - Wonderby R.J. Palacio (also available in eBook format through ELPL) and Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper. YOU CHOOSE which one to read. Or read both if you'd like! Due to budget cuts, free copies of the books will no longer be available to those signing up. Copies may be checked out from our library or inter-library loaned through MeLCat .
Wonder: Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunts and fear of his classmates as he struggles to be seen as just another student. Check out R.J. Palacio's web site: rjpalacio.com and Choose Kind , an anti-bullying campaign inspired by Wonder.
Out of My Mind:
Considered by many to be mentally retarded, a brilliant, impatient fifth-grader with cerebral palsy discovers a
technological device that will allow her to speak for the first time. Check out Sharon Draper's web site: sharondraper.com
Registration isn't required, but it would be appreciated in order to have enough bagels to go around. If you will be attending, please send an email to Mary Jo Gallagher at mgallag@cityofeastlansing.com
Books and Bagels will start back up in October 2012. Until then check out ELPL's Summer Reading Program for events, prizes and more. Here's a list of past Books and Bagels titles if you need a list of great books to read this summer.
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly
Participants are encouraged to bring a parent, grandparent, uncle or aunt to read the book and join the program. Program includes discussion, bagels and a fun activity. Free book while supplies last.
on Mon, 5/13/2013 
on Mon, 4/29/2013 
