Breakfast Book Club
Edina
High School
Breakfast Book Club
Breakfast Book Club is excited
to be in its 11th year and invites newcomers and returning members to
join us in reading. As always, bagels will be provided.
BBC, led by Ms. Cosgroveand Ms. Swenson, welcomes students of all ages.
The club provides students with an opportunity to read and talk about
books simply for the joy of it! In addition, students are able to begin
building their personal libraries because the BBC gives each student his/her
own copy of the books we read. In past years, over 100 students have participated
in book club each quarter and the numbers continue to grow. Our funds
will allow us to read five books this year; the first book choice was
announced at our September meeting. In order to accommodate students’
busy schedules, we will hold two meetings per text to discuss what the
books have to say to us.
Our surveys have shown that
the power of actually giving a student a book (a book they can keep!),
a bagel and a place to talk about their ideas improves student engagement
in reading and their sense of belonging at EHS. We’d like to continue
the giving part. If you would like to send a monetary contribution, please
address it to Sara Swenson, care of the EHS Media Center.
2011-2012 Titles
Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman
Safe From the Sea by Peter Geye
Other titles will be revealed
as the year goes along . . .
Previous Years Titles
2010-2011 Titles
Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
Let The Great World Spin by Colum McCann
The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
2009-2010
Titles
The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir by Kao Kalia
Yang
(An Edina Reads selection and author
visit to EHS)
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Moshin Hamid
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who
Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder
2008-2009 Titles
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
by Alexandra Fuller
(This book is also the Edina Reads
selection and in October, 30 book clubbers joined 30 community members
to hear Ms. Fuller speak. Thanks to the Edina
Community Foundation for their financial support!)
Undiscovered Country by Lin Enger
What Was Lost by Catherine O'Flynn
Marley and Me by John Grogan
What Now by Ann Patchett
2007-2008
Until They Bring the Streetcars Back by Stanley Gordon West
(Author visit!)
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
by Muhammad Yunus
The Stolen Child by Keith Donohue
Falling Boy by Alison McGhee
2006-2007
The Big Over Easy: A Nursery Crime by Jasper Fforde
A Student of Living Things by Susan Richards Shreve
The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
Grayson by Lynne Cox
Bringing Down The House by Ben Mezrich
2005-2006
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory
Maguire
The Devil In the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair
that Changed America by Erik Larson
Yeh Yeh's House: A Memoir by Evelina Chao (Author visit)
On April 19, 2006 Book Clubbers participated an in-school field trip,
an author visit with Evelina Chao. Ms. Chao spoke about her book, what
it means to be a writer and what she looks for in a "good book."
Students were also treated to a viola performance.
Book Clubbers who read The Kite Runner last spring heard author
Khaled Hosseini speak on December 1st, 2005. This unique opportunity was
part of the Edina Reads (one community,
one book) program. Thanks to the Edina
Community Foundation for funding this trip.
2004-2005
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All American Meal by Eric
Schlosser
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
2003-2004
The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff
Crow Lake by Mary Lawson
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America by Barbara Ehrenreich
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
9 of 1: A Window to the World by Oliver Chin
2002-2003
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Peace Like A River by Leif Enger
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
The Color Of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother by
James McBride
Step From Heaven by An Na
2001-2002
The Heart of the Old Country by Tim McLoughlin
Getting In by James Finney Boylan
A Trip to the Stars by Nicholas Christopher
It's Not About the Bike by Lance Armstrong
In These Girls, Hope Is A Muscle by Madeleine Blais
The Simpson's and Philosophy: The D'oh of Homer by William Irwin,
Mark Conrad and Aeon Skoble
Corelli's Mandolin by Louis De Berniers
Additional information about the EHS Breakfast Book Club
The Breakfast Book Club is the focus of the 2006 book Reading for Themselves: How to Transform Adolescents into Life Long Readers Through Out-of-Class Book Clubs by Deborah Appleman, instructor at Carleton College.
Breakfast Book Club slide show presentation (for teachers and librarians)
Handout
from NCTE 2003 San Francisco presentation (for teachers and librarians)
Article
about school book clubs--including BBC--published in Education World
Last updated September 2011