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Kids Book Club Welcomes Readers Ages 8-12 Rodman Public Library invites children, ages 8-12, to join the Kids Book Club, which meets at 4:15 p.m. on the third Wednesday of each month at the Main Library.
Kids Book Club meetings include a brief discussion of the book, a fun activity and a snack. Books are available for extended checkout. Registration is required for each session and opens six to eight weeks prior to each meeting. Links to registration pages for each meeting are included on this page for your convenience. For more information, call 330-821-2665, ext. 223.
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Meeting: July 20
When master prankster Miles Murphy moves to sleepy Yawnee Valley, he challenges the local mystery prankster in an epic battle of tricks but soon the two join forces to pull off the biggest prank ever seen.
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Meeting: August 17
After his parents are lost at sea and further disaster strikes, Nathaniel Fludd is tasked with ensuring that a phoenix's egg is safely hatched, but he also must keep his pet gremlin out of trouble and rescue his cousin and guardian from the Bedouin or risk the extinction of all the world's mythical creatures.
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Meeting: September 21
Sixth-grader Ben Pratt's life is full of changes that he does not like, but when the school janitor gives him a tarnished coin with some old engravings and then dies, Ben is drawn into an effort to keep his school from being destroyed.
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Meeting: October 19 With their magic being unpredictable, Nory, Elliott, Andres, and Bax are sent to the upside-down magic room at Dunwiddle Magic School.
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Meeting: November 16
Hating change and missing both her best friend and her dead goldfish, 11-year-old Ellie encounters a boy who strongly resembles her immortality-obsessed grandfather, in a story that introduces the work of famous historical scientists.
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Meeting: December 21
Willy Wonka's famous chocolate factory is opening at last! But only five lucky children will be allowed inside. And the winners are: Augustus Gloop, an enormously fat boy whose hobby is eating; Veruca Salt, a spoiled-rotten brat whose parents are wrapped around her little finger; Violet Beauregarde, a dim-witted gum-chewer with the fastest jaws around; Mike Teavee, a toy pistol-toting gangster-in-training who is obsessed with television; and Charlie Bucket, Our Hero, a boy who is honest and kind, braveand true, and good and ready for the wildest time of his life.
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Have questions? Contact the Rodman Library Children's Department at 330-821-2665, ext. 223.
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