Date: Wednesday August 20, 5:30-6:30 PM. Registration required.
Location: 2nd Floor Board Room
Who can sign up? Teens entering grades 7 – 12.
How does this program and sign up work:
Sign up and pick up your copy of the book from the 2nd Floor Kid’s Desk: Mon.-Thurs. 10-8:30 PM, Fri. 10-5pm, *Sat. hours are 10-1pm in July and August*
Sign up, read the book, and show up to the in person discussion and you get to keep the book!
To be fair, if you don’t show up, you have to return the book.
Due to high demand for this title, we ask that you pickup your book within 5 days of registering, or your book to keep might go to another teen.
What is this book about?
For fans of Kate DiCamillo and Jack Gantos, a hilarious, wrenching, hopeful novel about finding your friends, healing your heart, and speaking your truth.
Simon O’Keeffe’s biggest claim to fame should be the time his dad accidentally gave a squirrel a holy sacrament. Or maybe the alpaca disaster that went viral on YouTube. But the story the whole world wants to tell about Simon is the one he’d do anything to forget: the story in which he’s the only kid in his class who survived a school shooting.
Two years after the infamous event, twelve-year-old Simon and his family move to the National Quiet Zone—the only place in America where the internet is banned. Instead of talking about Simon, the astronomers who flock to the area are busy listening for signs of life in space. And when Simon makes a friend who’s determined to give the scientists what they’re looking for, he’ll finally have the chance to spin a new story for the world to tell.
From award-winning author Erin Bow, Simon Sort of Says is a breathtaking testament to the lasting echoes of trauma, the redemptive power of humor, and the courage it takes to move forward without forgetting the past.