Book Club Kits for Kids

Books available as part of the Book Club Kits for Kids program offered by Wake County Public Libraries. Each kit contains 15 paperback copies of the title, a discussion guide & a tote bag to keep it all together. To Learn More Visit: https://guides.wake.gov/BookClubKits/Kids

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Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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RECOMMENDED FOR 1ST THROUGH 3RD GRADE
Description:
Dink Duncan and his two friends investigate the apparent kidnapping of famous mystery author Wallis Wallace.
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Average Rating:
3.6 stars
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RECOMMENDED FOR 3RD THROUGH 5TH GRADE
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Ten-year-old India Opal Buloni describes her first summer in the town of Naomi, Florida, and all the good things that happen to her because of her big ugly dog Winn-Dixie.
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Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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RECOMMENDED FOR 3RD THROUGH 5TH GRADE
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Kidsnatched from her orphanage by a BFG (Big Friendly Giant), who spends his life blowing happy dreams to children, Sophie concocts with him a plan to save the world from nine other man-gobbling cannybull giants.
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Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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RECOMMENDED FOR 5TH GRADE AND UP
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Discusses the international competition to create the first atomic bomb.
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Average Rating:
4.4 stars
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RECOMMENDED FOR 5TH GRADE AND UP
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In the year 241, twelve-year-old Lina trades jobs on Assignment Day to be a Messenger to run to new places in her decaying but beloved city, perhaps even to glimpse Unknown Regions.
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Average Rating:
4.6 stars
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RECOMMENDED FOR 3RD THROUGH 5TH GRADE
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The author recounts in graphic novel format her experiences with hearing loss at a young age, including using a bulky hearing aid, learning how to lip read, and determining her "superpower."
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Average Rating:
3.8 stars
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RECOMMENDED FOR 1ST THROUGH 3RD GRADE
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Eight-year-old Jack and his younger sister Annie find a magic tree house, which whisks them back to an ancient time zone where they see live dinosaurs.
Book cover for "Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library"
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Average Rating:
4.7 stars
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RECOMMENDED FOR 3RD THROUGH 5TH GRADE
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Twelve-year-old Kyle gets to stay overnight in the new town library, designed by his hero (the famous gamemaker Luigi Lemoncello), with other students but finds that come morning he must work with friends to solve puzzles in order to escape.
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Average Rating:
4.4 stars
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RECOMMENDED FOR 5TH GRADE AND UP
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Twelve-year-old María Luisa O'Neill-Morales (who really prefers to be called Malú) reluctantly moves with her Mexican-American mother to Chicago and starts seventh grade with a bang--violating the dress code with her punk rock aesthetic and spurning the middle school's most popular girl in favor of starting a band with a group of like-minded weirdos.
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Front desk volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
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RECOMMENDED FOR 5TH GRADE AND UP
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Recent immigrants from China and desperate for work and money, ten-year-old Mia Tang's parents take a job managing a rundown motel in Southern California, even though the owner, Mr. Yao is a nasty skinflint who exploits them; while her mother (who was an engineer in China) does the cleaning, Mia works the front desk and tries to cope with demanding customers and other recent immigrants--not to mention being only one of two Chinese in her fifth grade...

11. Ghost

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Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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RECOMMENDED FOR 5TH GRADE AND UP
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Aspiring to be the fastest sprinter on his elite middle school's track team, gifted runner Ghost finds his goal challenged by a tragic past with a violent father.
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Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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RECOMMENDED FOR 5TH GRADE AND UP
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After seventh-grader Jerome is shot by a white police officer, he observes the aftermath of his death and meets the ghosts of other fallen black boys including historical figure Emmett Till.

13. Hatchet

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Brian's saga volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
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RECOMMENDED FOR 5TH GRADE AND UP
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Headed for Canada to visit his father for the first time since his parents' divorce, thirteen-year-old Brian is the sole survivor of a plane crash, with only the clothes he has on and a hatchet to help him live in the wilderness.
Book cover for "I Survived the California Wildfires, 2018"
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I survived volume 0020
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
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RECOMMENDED FOR 3RD THROUGH 5TH GRADE
Description:
California continues to be ravaged by devastating wildfires. Lauren Tarshis's heart-pounding story tells of two children who battle the terrifying flames and — despite the destruction — find hope in the ashes.

The people of Northern California were used to living with the threat of wildfires. But nothing could have prepared them for the devastating 2018 fire season, the deadliest in 100 years and the most destructive in history.In...
Book cover for "Inside out & back again"
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Average Rating:
3.6 stars
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RECOMMENDED FOR 5TH GRADE AND UP
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Through a series of poems, a young girl chronicles the life-changing year of 1975, when she, her mother, and her brothers leave Vietnam and resettle in Alabama.
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Average Rating:
4.1 stars
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RECOMMENDED FOR 3RD THROUGH 5TH GRADE
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Evan and his younger sister, Jesse, react very differently to the news that they will be in the same class for fourth grade and as the end of summer approaches, they battle it out through lemonade stands, each trying to be the first to earn one hundred dollars.
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Average Rating:
4.2 stars
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RECOMMENDED FOR 5TH GRADE AND UP
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When the Sudanese civil war reaches his village in 1985, eleven-year-old Salva becomes separated from his family and must walk with other Dinka tribe members through southern Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya in search of safe haven. Based on the life of Salva Dut, who, after emigrating to America in 1996, began a project to dig water wells in Sudan. When the Sudanese civil war reaches his village in 1985, eleven-year-old Salva becomes separated from his...

18. Matilda

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Average Rating:
5 stars
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RECOMMENDED FOR 3RD THROUGH 5TH GRADE
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Matilda applies her untapped mental powers to rid the school of the evil, child-hating headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, and restore her nice teacher, Miss Honey, to financial security.
Book cover for "The one and only Ivan"
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Average Rating:
4.4 stars
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RECOMMENDED FOR 3RD THROUGH 5TH GRADE
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When Ivan, a gorilla who has lived for years in a down-and-out circus-themed mall, meets Ruby, a baby elephant that has been added to the mall, he decides that he must find her a better life.
Book cover for "Pete the cat and the cool caterpillar"
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Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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RECOMMENDED FOR KINDERGARTEN THROUGH 1ST GRADE
Description:
When Pete the cat meets a super cool caterpillar, he thinks he has found a new best friend. But when one day his caterpillar goes missing, Pete has to find out what happened to his new friend. Pete is in for one wild surprise at the end!