Girls' Night Out Book Group

When: Every Second Friday at 5 p.m.
Where: I.H. Ruiz Branch
Contact: Julie Robinson at 816.701.3587

Check out the Girls' Night Out Book Group for smart conversation about young adult novels. Get a copy of featured titles from your nearest library location or reserve a copy in advance at kclibrary.org. Teen readers must RSVP (see below).

2011 Schedule

August 12
The Frog Princess by E.D. Baker.

After reluctantly kissing a frog, an awkward, fourteen-year-old princess suddenly finds herself a frog, too, and sets off with the prince to seek the means--and the self-confidence--to become human again.

September 9
Impossible by Nancy Werlin.

When seventeen-year-old Lucy discovers her family is under an ancient curse by an evil Elfin Knight, she realizes to break the curse she must perform three impossible tasks before her daughter is born in order to save them both.

October 14
All We Know of Heaven by Jacquelyn Mitchard.

When Maureen and Bridget, two sixteen-year-old best friends who look like sisters, are in a terrible car accident and one of them dies, they are at first incorrectly identified at the hospital, and then, as Maureen achieves a remarkable recovery, she must deal with the repercussions of the accident, the mix-up, and some choices she made while she was getting better.

November 11
The Possibilities of Sainthood by Donna Freitas.

While regularly petitioning the Vatican to make her the first living saint, fifteen-year-old Antonia Labella prays to assorted patron saints for everything from help with preparing the family's fig trees for a Rhode Island winter to getting her first kiss from the right boy.

December 9
Toads and Diamonds by Heather Tomlinson.

A retelling of the Perrault fairy tale set in pre-colonial India, in which two stepsisters receive gifts from a goddess and each walks her own path to find her gift's purpose, discovering romance along the way.

For more information or to RSVP, contact Julie Robinson at 816.701.3587.

Previous Reads:
June 2011 Don't Die Dragonfly by Linda Joy Singleton.
May 2011 The Boyfriend List by E. Lockhart.
April 2011 Trixie Belden: The Secret of the Mansion by Julie Campbell.
March 2011 if i stay by Gayle Forman.
February 2011 Jump the Cracks by Stacy DeKeyser.
January 2011 Wicked Girls by Stephanie Hemphill.