Announcing our July/August Book Club pick for Middle Grade readers: The Last Fallen Star by Graci Kim! Check our website and social media accounts for our reading plans and discussion starters.
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Announcing our May/June Book Club pick for Middle Grade readers: Cece Rios and the Desert of Souls by Kaela Rivera! Check our website and social media accounts for our reading plans and discussion starters.
Announcing our April Book Club pick for Middle Grade readers: Soul Lanterns by Shaw Kuzki! Check our website and social media accounts for our reading plans and discussion starters.
Announcing our March Book Club pick for Middle Grade readers: Red, White, and Whole by Rajani LaRocca! Check our website and social media accounts for our reading plans and discussion starters.
Discover discussion starters for City of the Plague God by Sarwat Chadda, our February 2021 Middle Grade Book Club pick! Check our website and social media accounts for updates.
Announcing our February Book Club pick for Middle Grade readers: City of the Plague God by Sarwat Chadda! Check our website and social media accounts for our reading plans and discussion starters.
Discover discussion starters for Before the Ever After by Jaqueline Woodson, our January 2021 Middle Grade Book Club pick! Check our website and social media accounts for updates.
Announcing our first book club pick for middle grade readers: Before the Ever After by Jaqueline Woodson! Check our website and social media accounts for our reading plans and discussion starters.
Before the Ever After
by Jaqueline Woodson
For as long as ZJ can remember, his dad has been everyone’s hero. As a charming, talented pro football star, he’s as beloved to the neighborhood kids he plays with as he is to his millions of adoring sports fans. But lately life at ZJ’s house is anything but charming. His dad is having trouble remembering things and seems to be angry all the time. ZJ’s mom explains it’s because of all the head injuries his dad sustained during his career. ZJ can understand that–but it doesn’t make the sting any less real when his own father forgets his name. As ZJ contemplates his new reality, he has to figure out how to hold on tight to family traditions and recollections of the glory days, all the while wondering what their past amounts to if his father can’t remember it. And most importantly, can those happy feelings ever be reclaimed when they are all so busy aching for the past?
