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= ﻿﻿**//Pageturner Book Club//**  = ﻿The Pageturner Book Club is a group of students who enjoy reading and discussing books. We generally meet three times a school year. Sometimes we vote on the book we are going to read and other times Mrs. White, the librarian, choses the title. After allowing four weeks to read the book, we meet in the library for lunch. Students bring their lunch and Mrs. White provides a dessert. Books that we have read in the past include, //Speak, Lovely Bones, Shiver, Twilight, Looking for Alaska,// and //Whale Talk.// We chose books that are of high interest, books with something to say and books that we enjoy. Any student who wishes to join us may do so by letting Mrs. White know. The next book that we are going to read is Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson. media type="youtube" key="anxTRdRr410" height="213" width="308" Here is Mrs. Anderson's description of the story: === “Tell us your secrets,” the girls whisper, one toilet to another. I am that girl. I am the space between my thighs, daylight shining through. I am the bones they want, wired on a porcelain frame. Lia and Cassie were best friends, wintergirls frozen in matchstick bodies. But now Cassie is dead. Lia’s mother is busy saving other people’s lives. Her father is away on business. Her stepmother is clueless. And the voice inside Lia’s head keeps telling her to remain in control, stay strong, lose more, weigh less. If she keeps on going this way – thin, thinner, thinnest – maybe she’ll disappear altogether. In her most emotionally wrenching, lyrically written book since the National Book Award finalist Speak, bestselling author Laurie Halse Anderson explores one girl’s chilling descent into the all-consuming vortex of anorexia. Laurie Halse Anderson's webpage  [|madwomanintheforest]   ﻿Discussion Questions for //Wintergirls//     ===

**The PageTurner Book Club will meet Wednesday, May 11th for our discussion and lunch!**