May 2010

UPCOMING EVENTS

• 5th/6th Grade Book Club: One Day and One Amazing Morning on Orange Street by Joanne Rocklin (5/16/12)

  The last remaining orange tree on a Southern California street brings together neighbors of all ages as they face their problems and anxieties, including the possibility that a mysterious stranger is a threat to their tree.

• Current Affairs / Non Fiction Book Club: Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress – and a Plan to Stop It by Lawrence Lessig (5/17/12)

  Using examples that resonate as powerfully on the Right as on the Left, “Republic, Lost” not only makes clear how the economy of influence defeats the will of the people, but also offers cogent strategies to correct our course–from a constitutional convention to a Regent Presidency.

• Poetry Night (5/24/2012)

  Bring a poem or two to share, your own or someone else’s.

• Fiction Book Club: Swamplandia! by Karen Russell (6/7/12)

  Karen Russell is young and talented, and has been given just about every age-appropriate honor there is–Best Young American Novelists, 20 Under 40, 5 Under 35. The bewitching “Swamplandia!” is a tremendous achievement for anyone, period. . . . Effortless prose and [a] small, beautifully drawn cast of characters . . . as densely organic as the swamp in which it is set.”
  –Keith Staskiewicz, ” Entertainment Weekly,