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It's a popular notion these days that young people don't read much anymore, and that, for folks between 12 and 20, the idea of settling in with a good book just can't compete with the attractions of social media and the latest iPhone app.
Well, hold the phone. Literally. A new middle school book club — the Nook Book Club — is going strong at the Maryville Public Library. In fact, it's almost going a little too strong for Youth Librarian Jill Emerson.
When Emerson started the club for kids in fifth through eight grade, she thought at first that only six or seven youngsters, most likely girls, would show up for meetings. Instead, more than two dozen teens and pre-teens of both sexes have been trooping into the library basement at 4 p.m. on the second Thursday of each month ready to play games, answer book-related trivia questions and talk about what they've been reading.
Currently club participants are reading "The Hunger Games," a science fiction novel that is one third of a trilogy by young-adult author Suzanne Collins. The book's heroine, 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen, lives in a post-apocalyptic world in which a tyrannical government forces boys and girls to fight to the death...
For the complete story, pick up a copy of today's Maryville Daily Forum, or subscribe to the Daily Forum's e-edition.
It's a popular notion these days that young people don't read much anymore, and that, for folks between 12 and 20, the idea of settling in with a good book just can't compete with the attractions of social media and the latest iPhone app.
Well, hold the phone. Literally. A new middle school book club — the Nook Book Club — is going strong at the Maryville Public Library. In fact, it's almost going a little too strong for Youth Librarian Jill Emerson.
When Emerson started the club for kids in fifth through eight grade, she thought at first that only six or seven youngsters, most likely girls, would show up for meetings. Instead, more than two dozen teens and pre-teens of both sexes have been trooping into the library basement at 4 p.m. on the second Thursday of each month ready to play games, answer book-related trivia questions and talk about what they've been reading.
Currently club participants are reading "The Hunger Games," a science fiction novel that is one third of a trilogy by young-adult author Suzanne Collins. The book's heroine, 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen, lives in a post-apocalyptic world in which a tyrannical government forces boys and girls to fight to the death...
For the complete story, pick up a copy of today's Maryville Daily Forum, or subscribe to the Daily Forum's e-edition.
