Kids Reading Club Prompts

Chronal Engine by Greg Leitich Smith

New month, new book! Check out this month’s first book club title, Chronal Engine by Greg Leitich Smith!

The book can be downloaded as an ebook from Hoopla:

https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/12017188

When Max, Emma, and Kyle are sent to live with their reclusive grandfather for the summer, they’re dismayed to learn he thinks there’s a time machine in the basement.

But when Grandpa Pierson predicts the exact time of his own heart attack, and when Emma is kidnapped by what can only be a time traveler, they realize he was telling the truth about the Chronal Engine. And if they want their sister back, they’ll have to do it themselves.

So Max and Kyle, together with their new friend Petra, pack up their grandpa’s VW and follow Emma and the kidnapper back in time, to Late Cretaceous Texas, where the sauropods and tyrannosaurs roam. Can the trio find Emma and survive the hazards of the Age of Dinosaurs, or are they, too, destined to become part of the fossil record?

Check out the blog on Monday for the first book club question!

By Ashley, ago

The Fairy-Tale Detectives by Michael Buckley

Do you love fairy-tale re-tellings? Get ready for this week’s new Kids Reading Club title, The Fairy-Tale Detectives by Michael Buckley!

Download the book as an ebook from Hoopla:

https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/12462583

Orphaned sisters Sabrina and Daphne are sent to live with their mysterious grandmother, Relda Grimm, who lives in a town in rural New York State that experiences an extraordinary number of unexplained and unusual crimes. In this book, the girls are pitted against a giant who has been rampaging through town. But who set the giant loose?

Check back on Monday for the first question!

By Ashley, ago