Middle School Lunch Book Club

The quarterly Middle School Lunch Book Club met today to discuss their chosen book, a complex steampunk/fantasy/science fiction work entitled The Glass Sentence, by S.E. Grove. Description: "In 1891, in a world transformed by 1799's Great Disruption--when all of the continents were flung into different time periods--thirteen-year-old Sophia Tims and her friend Theo go in search of Sophia's uncle, Shadrack Elli, Boston's foremost cartologer, who has been kidnapped." The book is first in an immensely imaginative and thought-provoking trilogy.

Twelve students read the book and joined the lively discussion, talking about maps, memory, time travel, trustworthiness, and all the ins and outs of the book. Kerri Hunt also read the book and joined us, and suggested the activity we distributed, creating our own memory maps of Overlake. For the activity we distributed campus maps and a sheet of thought bubbles to cut out and place where important things happened for the student. Because the students were so interested in the discussion, we had to make the activity take-home, but so much the better! The next book club meeting will be in February.