Meeting Date

Reading

Focus

October 8

A Week in the Woods, by Andrew Clements

Prejudice: What is prejudice?

November 12

Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William Mckinley and Me, Elizabeth, by E. L. Konigsberg

Friendship: How do we keep our own individuality when we give to a friendship?

December 10

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Winter Holidays: How do religions use symbols of light and darkness?

January 14

In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson, by Bette Bao Lord

Chinese Americans: How does an immigrant become an American and still keep her own cultural identity?

February 11

Poetry for Young People: Langston Hughes

African Americans: What is the African-American experience, according to Langston Hughes?

March 10

Families, by Susan Kuklin

Families: Is there any limit to the variety of families?

April 14

Baseball in April, by Gary Soto

Latino Americans

May 12

The Higher Power of Lucky, by Susan Patron

Inner-strength: How can I find a "higher power?"