May Book Selection

The Book Buddies Book Club will get together for the last meeting of this school year on Monday, May 24th at 3:30pm in the John Clarke Children's Program Room. We will be celebrating another great year of books and reading with an end-of-year party. All who have participated in the book club this year are welcome to attend.

Our May book will be Half Magic by Edward Eager.

"It all begins with a strange coin on a sun-warmed sidewalk. Jane finds the coin, and because she and her siblings are having the worst, most dreadfully boring summer ever, she idly wishes something exciting would happen.

And something does: Her wish is granted.

Or not quite. Only half of her wish comes true.

It turns out the coin grants wishes - but only by half, so that you must wish for twice as much as you want.

Wishing for two times some things is a cinch, but other doubled wishes only cause twice as much trouble. What is half of twice a talking cat? Or to be half-again twice not-here? And how do you double your most heartfelt wish, the one you care about so much that it has to be perfect?"