The Berkshire Bookworms is an after school book group for students in grades four through six. This group is facilitated by two adult children's literature lovers and was informed by a group of advisors including Susan Hyde, Mindy Hackner and Sue Lynch. Over the course of each year, students meet once per month to discuss a book of their choosing.

Next Meeting: Saturday, February 6 10-11:30am in the boardroom of the Milne Public Library.

We will be discussing Suzanne Collins's book Gregor the Overlander. Please visit the author's website at www.suzannecollinsbooks.com/.

Please direct questions and reservations to Lauren Gotlieb (413-884-6038) and/or Patrice Smith (413-884-6007).

New readers welcome anytime! Hope you'll join us!

Recommended Reading

• Half-a-Moon Inn by Paul Fleischman
• Goosebump Series by R.L Stine
• The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischmen and Peter Sis
• My Life in Dog Years by Gary Paulsen
• Septimus Heap Series by Angie Sage
• The Miraculous Adventures of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo
• Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney
• The Snoopy Festival by Charles M. Schulz
• The Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
• Because of Winn Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
• Jackie and Me by Dan Gutman
• The Giver by Lois Lowry
• Coraline by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean
• Ever by Gail Carson Levine
• 101 Dalmations by Dodie Smith
• Warriors by Erin Hunter
• Summer of the Monkeys by Wilson Rawls
• A Crooked Kind of Perfect by Linda Urban
• The Book of One Hundred Truths by Julie Schumacher
• Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
• Ruby Holler by Sharon Creech
• The Very Ordered Existence of Merilee Marvelous by Suzanne Crowley
• Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
• Harry Potter Series
• Cradle to Cradle by William McDonough
• Books by Mike Lupica
• The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster and Jules Feiffer
• Abel's Island by William Steig
• Secret Order of the Gumm Street Girls by Elise Primavera
• Shakespeare's Secret by Elise Broach
• Seedfolks by Joanna Colter
• The Witches by Roald Dahl
• Fable Heaven by Brandon Mull
• Gooseberry Park by Cynthia Rylant and Arthur Howard
• The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean
• Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
• Jackie Robinson
• When I Became a Writer
• The Grand Escape Series by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor and Alan Daniel
• His Dark Materials Triology by Phillip Pullman
• Foster's War by Carolyn Reeder
• Bryan's Winter by Gary Paulsen

The 2009 Berkshire Bookworm Award goes to...

The Mysterious Benedict Society

by Trenton Lee Stewart

Other titles from 2008-09:

The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo
Emily Windsnap and the Monster from the Deep by Liz Kessler
Flip by David Lubar
A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck
Rules by Cynthia Lord