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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Book cover for "Happy Birthday Bad Kitty"
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5 stars
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RECOMMENDED FOR 1ST THROUGH 3RD GRADE
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Get ready to party! It's Bad Kitty's birthday, and guess who's on the guest list? Chatty Kitty, Strange Kitty, Stinky Kitty, and her other neighborhood "pals". join the fun in this riotous companion to Bad Kitty and Bad Kitty Gets a Bath!

22. Hatchet

Book cover for "Hatchet"
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Series:
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 "Henry and Mudge and the happy cat"
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Average Rating:
5 stars
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RECOMMENDED FOR KINDERGARTEN THROUGH 1ST GRADE
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Henry's family takes in a stray cat, the ugliest cat they have ever seen, and an amazing relationship blossoms between it and their big dog Mudge.
Book cover for "I Survived the California Wildfires, 2018"
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Series:
I survived volume 0020
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
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RECOMMENDED FOR 3RD THROUGH 5TH GRADE
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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.
Book cover for "Judy Moody & Stink"
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Average Rating:
4.4 stars
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RECOMMENDED FOR 1ST THROUGH 3RD GRADE
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During a weekend trip to Ocracoke Island, siblings Judy and Stink Moody take part in a pirate treasure-hunting game, in which various clues lead them to silver coins, or "pieces of eight," hidden across the island.
Book cover for "The lemonade war"
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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.
Book cover for "A long walk to water"
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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...

29. Matilda

Book cover for "Matilda"
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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 "Mercy Watson to the rescue"
Star rating for Mercy Watson to the rescue
Series:
Mercy Watson volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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RECOMMENDED FOR 1ST THROUGH 3RD GRADE
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After Mercy the pig snuggles to sleep with the Watsons, all three awaken with the bed teetering on the edge of a big hole in the floor.
Book cover for "Number the stars"
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4.4 stars
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RECOMMENDED FOR 3RD THROUGH 5TH GRADE
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In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.
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 "Out of my mind"
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Series:
Out of my mind volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
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RECOMMENDED FOR 5TH GRADE AND UP
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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. A brilliant, impatient fifth-grader with cerebral palsy, considered by many to be mentally retarded, discovers a technological device that will allow her to speak for the first time.
Book cover for "The Parker inheritance"
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Average Rating:
3.7 stars
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RECOMMENDED FOR 5TH GRADE AND UP
Description:
Twelve-year-old Candice Miller is spending the summer in Lambert, South Carolina, in the old house that belonged to her grandmother, who died after being dismissed as city manager for having the city tennis courts dug up looking for buried treasure--but when she finds the letter that sent her grandmother on the treasure hunt, she finds herself caught up in the mystery and, with the help of her new friend and fellow book-worm, Brandon, she sets out...
Book cover for "Pete the cat and the cool caterpillar"
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Average Rating:
4.6 stars
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RECOMMENDED FOR KINDERGARTEN THROUGH 1ST GRADE
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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!
Book cover for "Prisoner B-3087"
Star rating for Prisoner B-3087
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
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RECOMMENDED FOR 5TH GRADE AND UP
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Based on the life of Jack Gruener, this book relates his story of survival from the Nazi occupation of Krakow, when he was eleven, through a succession of concentration camps, to the final liberation of Dachau.
Book cover for "Sacagawea"
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Average Rating:
4 stars
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RECOMMENDED FOR 5TH GRADE AND UP
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"What did 33 men in the 1800s need to find their way through the wilderness on a trip across America? They needed a woman--and they found one in Sacagawea, the Native American teenage mother who helped the Lewis and Clark expedition survive. She and her baby braved floods, hunger, storms, and snakes to help the expedition that opened the West. Sacagawea: Courageous Trailblazer! tells the life story of this amazing pioneer who endured hardship in her...
Book cover for "Sadiq and the Bridge Builders"
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Series:
Sadiq volume 5.
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RECOMMENDED FOR 1ST THROUGH 3RD GRADE
Description:
A young Somali American and his classmates design a model city to withstand floods, using river walls, floodgates, gutters, and rain gardens.
Book cover for "The screaming staircase"
Star rating for The screaming staircase
Series:
Lockwood & Co volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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RECOMMENDED FOR 5TH GRADE AND UP
Description:
Follows three young operatives of a Psychic Detection Agency as they battle an epidemic of ghosts in London.
Book cover for "Serafina and the Black Cloak"
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Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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RECOMMENDED FOR 5TH GRADE AND UP
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In 1899, a twelve-year-old rat catcher on North Carolina's Biltmore estate teams up with the estate owner's young nephew to battle a great evil and, in the process, unlocks the puzzle of her past.