For Families

Each year, we hold variety of book clubs for South Park students and parents. These events are an opportunity for our students to read a book they might not try on their own, and share their reading with friends and family.

Here are the exciting book clubs we have planned for the 2026-2027 school year!

This club will read the 2027 Bluestem nominated book Right Back at You and participate in the the Right Back at You Project. We'll hold a virtual author visit with author Carolyn Mackler and another school who has read the book, and then we'll pair up to write each other letters as pen pals! Any 4th-5th grade student can join the club. 

 

You've read the bestselling book The Anxious Generation. Now share Jonathan Haidt and Catherine Price's follow-up text with your student. This engaging book written in text and graphic novel form demonstrates the benefits of limiting screens and cell phone use in a way that's fun for kids. Read the book together and then join us for pizza and discussion with other families. 

Wednesday, October 28th 5:00-6:30pm

 

Grades 2-5 will each have a separate book club this winter! Kids can read the book with a parent or other special grown-up and join us during their lunch/recess period for discussion and activities. Dates are TBD. Here are the 2026-2027 book choices!

2nd grade: The World According to Humphrey by Betty Birney

You can learn a lot about life by observing another species. That’s what Humphrey was told when he was first brought to Room 26. And boy, is it true! In addition to having FUN-FUN-FUN in class, each weekend this amazing hamster gets to sleep over with a different student. Soon Humphrey learns to read, write, and even shoot rubber bands (only in self-defense, of course). With lots of friends to help, adventures to enjoy, and a cage with a lock-that-doesn’t- lock, Humphrey's life is almost perfect. If only the teacher, Mrs. Brisbane, wasn’t out to get him!

 

 

 

 

3rd grade: The Very, Very Far North by Dan Bar-el

 

In the Very, Very Far North, past the Cold, Cold Ocean and just below the hill that looks like a baby whale, you’ll find Duane and his friends.

Duane is a sweet and curious young bear who makes friends with everyone he meets—whether they’re bossy, like Major Puff the puffin, or a bit vain, like Handsome the musk ox, or very, very shy, like Boo the caribou. For these arctic friends, every day is a new adventure!

 

 

4th grade: The Fourteenth Goldfish by Jennifer L. Holm

Eleven-year-old Ellie has never liked change. She misses fifth grade. She misses her old best friend. She even misses her dearly departed goldfish. Then one day a strange boy shows up. He’s bossy. He’s cranky. And weirdly enough . . . he looks a lot like Ellie’s grandfather, a scientist who’s always been slightly obsessed with immortality. Could this gawky teenager really be Grandpa Melvin? Has he finally found the secret to eternal youth?

 

 

 

 

5th grade: The Doughnut Fix by Jessie Janowitz

 Tristan isn't Gifted or Talented like his sister Jeanine, and he's always been okay with that because he can make a perfect chocolate chip cookie and he lives in the greatest city in the world. But his life takes a turn for the worse when his parents decide to move to middle-of-nowhere Petersville―a town with one street and no restaurants. It's like suddenly they're supposed to be this other family, one that can survive without bagels and movie theaters.

His suspicions about his new town are confirmed when he's tricked into believing the local general store has life-changing chocolate cream doughnuts, when in fact the owner hasn't made them in years. And so begins the only thing that could make life in Petersville worth living: getting the recipe, making the doughnuts, and bringing them back to the town through his very own doughnut stand.