WebEx Live: Virtual Book Club for Grades 3rd – 5th

Read a book selected last month by 3rd-5th graders, then join in a virtual meeting with other readers your own age to discuss your thoughts on the book. Grades 3-5. Registration is required.

Our reader-chosen book this month is Scritch Scratch by Lindsay Currie.  It is available on Hoopla in e-book and audiobook format or as a physical book from the library.  Here is the description from the publisher:

"For fans of Small Spaces and the Goosebumps series by R.L Stine comes a chilling ghost story based on real Chicago history about a malevolent spirit, an unlucky girl, and a haunting mystery that will tie the two together.

"Claire has absolutely no interest in the paranormal. She's a scientist, which is why she can't think of anything worse than having to help out her dad on one of his ghost-themed Chicago bus tours. She thinks she's made it through when she sees a boy with a sad face and dark eyes at the back of the bus. There's something off about his presence, especially because when she checks at the end of the tour...he's gone.

"Claire tries to brush it off, she must be imagining things, letting her dad's ghost stories get the best of her. But then the scratching starts. Voices whisper to her in the dark. The number 396 appears everywhere she turns. And the boy with the dark eyes starts following her.

"Claire is being haunted. The boy from the bus wants something...and Claire needs to find out what before it's too late.