Teen book club to launch at Marshall Public Library

POCATELLO – The Marshall Public Library is launching a caller book nine for section teenagers.

The Young Reader’s Choice Award book nine allows teenagers to publication from nan astir celebrated books among young readers. Best of all, they get to support nan books for free afterward.

The Pacific Northwest Library Association’s Young Reader’s Choice Award receives book nominations from crossed nan Pacific Northwest. YRCA has book nominations for different divisions, and teenagers ballot to prime nan winners.

Gracie Marsden, nan young big librarian astatine nan Marshall Public Library, wanted to big a book nine for YRCA. She worked pinch nan Friends of nan Marshall Public Library to unafraid backing to acquisition 20 copies of each book successful nan intermediate and elder divisions to springiness to participants, free of cost.

Every month, book nine participants will publication a different book from nan database of nominations and meet astatine nan extremity of nan period to talk it.

“We talk astir things we liked astir it, possibly things we didn’t for illustration astir it, and conscionable get to fangirl astir nan books together,” Marsden said.

Book nine members will besides beryllium free to take which months they will participate.

“Teens tin decide, ‘Oh, you know, nan books for October possibly don’t liking me, but nan ones for November do,’ truthful they tin prime and take perfectly which ones they want to participate in,” Marsden said.

In March, YRCA will big a banquet to observe nan completion of nan book club. At nan banquet, participants successful nan YRCA book nine tin taxable their ballot for nan Young Reader’s Choice Award.

The YRCA book nine is unfastened to sixth-grade students done teenagers 18 years old. To participate, teenagers tin registry astatine nan Marshall Public Library website.