<div dir="ltr">I've been partnering with the children's librarian from our public library for years on a shared book club. We meet at the high school during the school year. For years, we met during lunch which entailed two hours of sitting in the library for us two adults--since we have three lunches, we had three separate meetings. It was really too much, so this year we are meeting after school for 45 minutes. We read one book a month that is voted on by the students. We map out the months at our first meeting of the year -- by this I mean what genre we will read for each month. We have found it's good for the kids, and for us, to expose them to different genres. Generally, we include realistic fiction, sci-fi/fantasy, nonfiction, graphic novel, classic, etc. The students help create this list. We meet twice a month, usually the first and third Thursdays of the month. The first meeting of the month is a book discussion and the second meeting of the month is for book selection. My partner and I select titles to talk at the selection meetings, but students are welcome to submit ideas for books, as well. Each student gets two votes; they can cast both for one book or split their votes and vote for two books. We order the copies through ILL. We are very relaxed about reading the book as we don't want it to seem like it's an assignment, but it's so much better when at least some of them have finished the book. Snacks are important!! <div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 10:11 AM Michelle Shippy via AISLE <<a href="mailto:aisle@list.railslibraries.info">aisle@list.railslibraries.info</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I am attempting to start a book club at the high school level. This is my first year in this particular district, so I don't currently have a go-to group of students I can tap into getting this off the ground; I'm hoping this club will help me foster some strong relationships. For those of you who have spear-headed and lead a teen book club, please drop all of your advice in this thread. My plan is to recruit, promote, and choose our first title before the end of this semester and hold our first meeting in late January. 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