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Learn, Love, and Laugh @ the Tompkins County Public Library’s Mother–Daughter Book Club!

Books by Emily Rhoads Johnson available for check out in the library:

A House Full of Strangers
J Johnson

Spring and the Shadow Man
J Johnson

Write Me if You Dare!
J Johnson

The Tompkins County Public Library invites all girls ages ten through 13 and the special women in their lives to join the Library’s Mother-Daughter Book Club.

In addition to reading and discussing wonderful books each month, participants will have the benefit of being led by acclaimed children’s author Emily Rhoads Johnson. Rhoads Johnson is the author of Spring and the Shadow Man, A House Full of Strangers and Write Me If You Dare.

The Mother-Daughter Book Club provides a wonderful opportunity for participants to learn about themselves and others by discussing literature. There is no right or wrong answers during Club meetings, simply open discussions where all input is valued.

The group will meet once a month in the Thaler/Howell Room from 1:30 - 2:30.

Registration is not required, but is appreciated. For more information or to register contact Adelle Leise @ 607-272-4557 X 277.

The group will be discussing the following titles on the following dates in the Library’s Thaler/Howell room @ 1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

Penny from Heaven by Jennifer L. Holt book jacket

Date: September 28, 2008
Title: PENNY FROM HEAVEN by Jennifer L. Holm
Location: Thaler/Howell programming room

 


Pictures of Hollis Woods book jacket

Date: October 12, 2008
Title: PICTURES OF HOLLIS WOODS by Patricia Reilly Giff
Location: Thaler/Howell programming room

 

 

Behind the Attic Wall book jacket

Date: November 9, 2008
Title: BEHIND THE ATTIC WALL by Sylvia Cassedy
Location: Thaler/Howell programming room

 

 

Hattie Big Sky book jacket

Date: December 14, 2008
Title: HATTIE BIG SKY by Kirby Larson
Location: Thaler/Howell programming room

 

 

Esperanza Rising book jacket

Date: January 11, 2009
Title: ESPERANZA RISING by Pam Munoz Ryan
Location: Thaler/Howell programming room

 

 

Gone Away Lake book jacket

Date: February 8, 2009
Title: GONE AWAY LAKE by Elizabeth Enright
Location: Thaler/Howell programming room

 

 

Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy book jacket

Date: March 8, 2009
Title: LIZZIE BRIGHT AND THE BUCKMINSTER BOY by Gary D. Schmidt
Location: Thaler/Howell programming room

 

 

Harriet the Spy book jacket

Date: April 12, 2009
Title: HARRIET THE SPY by Louise Fitzhugh
Location: Thaler/Howell programming room

 

Copies of the selected books are available for check out at the library. For more information or to register please contact the youth services department @ 607-272-4557 ext 275.


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