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Article: Book clubs for kids.(Family time)(Brief article)
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- Good Housekeeping
- Article date:
- July 1, 2006
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When these 12-year-olds get together, topic A is books, not boys. Their junior reading group revolves around the Bea con Street Girls, a tween series featuring characters the book club members all relate to. Club founder Caroline Bailey, who lives outside Boston, and three of her best friends have been meeting every month for the past two years, and, says Caroline's mom, "the girls have really bonded."
A little bribery may be necessary to lure reluctant readers. Sandra Lingo, a middle school librarian in Cincinnati, serves pizza and ice cream to the seventh-and eighth-grade members of her all-boy book group. She also arranges ...