Parent Volunteers are needed for the WCMS READS Events!

The WCMS Library will again be hosting its WCMS READS Eventsonce each month in the WCMS Library at 2:15. This event is an opportunity for students and volunteers to get together for book discussion, food and fun! Students and volunteers will select a book from a list (see below) to read on their own, and then will meet with others who have read the same book. The WCMS Library will provide the books, refreshments and some general discussion questions. Volunteers may wish to create their own questions. Volunteers can participate when convenient and are not required to attend every session, though they are certainly welcome to! Each month, a new group of students will be selected to participate.

Please contact Kathleen Mook, WCMS Librarian, at if you would be interested in leading a discussiongroup and which title(s) you prefer. All volunteers must complete the required background check. Please let me know what days of the week you are available.

Hope to see you there!

Doll Bones by Holly Black

Zach, Alice and Poppy, friends from a Pennsylvania middle school who have long enjoyed acting out imaginary adventures with dolls and action figures embark on a real-life quest to Ohio to bury a doll made from the ashes of a dead girl.

Winner of the Newbery Medal

Someone Was Watching by David Patneaude

When his baby sister disappears from the river near their summer home, eight grader Chris fights the assumption that she has drowned and uncovers evidence that something entirely different has happened to her.

Woodsrunner by Gary Paulsen

From his 1776 Pennsylvania homestead, thirteen-year-old Samuel, who is a highly-skilled woodsman, sets out toward New York City to rescue his parents from the band of British soldiers and Native Americans who kidnapped them after slaughtering most of their community.

Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson

At age eight, David watched as his father was killed by an Epic, a human with superhuman powers. Now, ten years later, he joins the Reckoners – the only people who are trying to kill the Epics and end the tyranny.

Waiting for Normal by Leslie Connor

Twelve-year-old Addie tries to cope with her mother's erratic behavior and being separated from her beloved stepfather and half-sisters when she and her mother go to live in a small trailer by the railroad tracks on the outskirts of Schenectady, New York.