Last month, author Michael Fry visited our tween book club to discuss his
novel Odd Squad: Bully Bait. Kids and parents both enjoyed the
experience. For September’s tween book club
pick I looked for a book that:
· was related to the start of school year
· reminded the kids about our wonderful author visit
at the last book club meeting
· was an easy read that tweens could get
through painlessly while getting used to school/homework again
· superheroes!
Lunch Lady and the
Author Visit Vendetta is Jarrett J. Krosoczka’s third graphic novel in the popular
Lunch Lady series. I
highly recommend any of the Lunch Lady books. In Author Visit Vendetta, a world famous
writer with evil designs visits Hector, Terrence, and Dee’s school. The
lunch lady/superhero in disguise must get to the bottom of his sinister
plans and save the school from attack bunnies.
The tween book club loved this month’s pick. The tweens engaged in a extensive conversation about lunch lady’s super evil fighting gadgets such as spork phones, fishstick nunchucks and spatu-copters. A few of the kids verbally designed their own elaborate kitchen utensil gadgets in super awesome detail. The club also had a interesting discussion about what evil superpower they would give attack bunnies.
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| cyclops bunny |
While we were talking and snacking on graham crackers, the club members made their own “attack bunnies”. I borrowed this idea from DC Public Library's graphic novel club . Attack bunny shapes were cut out of felt using a peep template . Craft supplies (sharpies, sequence, glitter, glue, etc.) were then set out on the tables and the kids went to town constructing their own diabolical attack peeps.
We do have a young tween book club participant who does not like crafts. For the kids
who preferred an alternate activity, I set out Lunch Lady finish the story worksheets.
In the book, the lunch lady and students defeated the evil bunnies by throwing stinky socks at them. I devised a "stinky sock bomb game" for the kids to play. Evil bunnies were hand drawn on three sheets of construction paper. Then they were cut out and attached to three empty water bottles with superglue. The kids took turn throwing rolled up socks (yes, they were clean and not "stinky") and knocking down the diabolical bunny bottles.
I ended the book club by passing out October’s book club pick. We will be reading Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book. I showed this book trailer to get the kids excited about reading it:
In the book, the lunch lady and students defeated the evil bunnies by throwing stinky socks at them. I devised a "stinky sock bomb game" for the kids to play. Evil bunnies were hand drawn on three sheets of construction paper. Then they were cut out and attached to three empty water bottles with superglue. The kids took turn throwing rolled up socks (yes, they were clean and not "stinky") and knocking down the diabolical bunny bottles.
I ended the book club by passing out October’s book club pick. We will be reading Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book. I showed this book trailer to get the kids excited about reading it:
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