The St. Joseph Public Library is proud to offer juvenile book club kits for public use. Each kit includes fifteen copies of a single title.
The juvenile book club collection features both fiction and non-fiction titles at various reading levels, generally appropriate for children ages seven through twelve.
- A juvenile book club kit is a bag of 15 books checked out to one person.
- All 15 books must be checked out and returned as a complete unit.
- Each juvenile book club kit may be checked out for up to 6 weeks.
- Juvenile book club kits may not be renewed.
- The kits need to be returned at any St. Joseph Public Library branch during regular business hours; they may NOT be returned in the book drop.
The juvenile book club kits are housed at the Washington Park Library, but you may pick up a juvenile book club kit at any of the four St. Joseph Public Library branches by placing a hold.
Call the Washington Park Library at 232-2052 (or any St. Joseph Public Library branch) to let a librarian know the book club kit that you would like to receive and they will place a hold for you.
We currently offer sixteen titles in the juvenile book club collection and hope to add more each year. If you have suggestions for titles to include in our juvenile book club collection, please contact Karen Schultz at kschultz@sjpl.lib.mo.us or call Washington Park Library at 232-2052.
To place a hold on a juvenile book club kit, please call the Washington Park Library at 232-2052 or any St. Joseph Public Library branch.
Visit us on the web at sjpl.lib.mo.us to check the availability of juvenile book club kits through our library catalog. A list of Book Club Kit Titles is below.
TITLE | AUTHOR | LEXILE | ||
Al Capone Does My Shirts | Choldenko, Ginnifer | 600 Lexile | ||
The Battle of the Labyrinth | Riordan, Rick | 590 Lexile | ||
Flat Stanley: His Original Adventure! | Brown, Jeff | 640 Lexile | ||
Hatchet | Paulsen, Gary | 1020 Lexile | ||
The Island of the Blue Dolphins | O’Dell, Scott | 1000 Lexile | ||
The Lightning Thief | Riordan, Rick | 740 Lexile | ||
Mr. Popper’s Penguins | Atwater, Richard | 910 Lexile | ||
The One and Only Ivan | Applegate, Katherine | 570 Lexile | ||
The Red Pyramid | Riordan, Rick | 650 Lexile | ||
The Sea of Monsters | Riordan, Rick | 740 Lexile | ||
Stone Fox | Gardiner, John Reynolds | 550 Lexile | ||
The Titan’s Curse | Riordan, Rick | 630 Lexile | ||
The Watsons Go to Birmingham– 1963 | Curtis, Christopher Paul | 1000 Lexile | ||
Where the Red Fern Grows: The Story of Two Dogs and a Boy | Rawls, Wilson | 700 Lexile | ||
Who Was Mark Twain? | Prince, April Jones | 910 Lexile | ||
Who Was Martin Luther King, Jr.? | Bader, Bonnie | 750 Lexile | ||
Who Was Walt Disney? | Stewart, Whitney | 720 Lexile |