Our Kickoff starts September 19th at 7:00pm! (Sign Up Required)

 Join us for lively discussions, activities, friendship and fun! For girls ages 8 – 12 accompanied by your mother or another caring adult. Sign up and pick up your booklist at the Larsen-Sant Library! We will meet at 7:00 p.m. (Please note age requirements. No younger siblings please.)

October 17th | at 7:00 | Freckle Juice

Nicky has freckles. They cover his face, his ears, and the whole back of his neck. Sitting behind him in class, Andrew once counted eighty-six of them and that was just a start! If  Andrew had freckles like Nicky, his  mother would never know if his neck was dirty.
One day after school, Andrew works up enough courage to ask Nicky where he got his freckles. When know-it-all Sharon overhears, she offers Andrew her secret freckle juice recipe for fifty cents. It's a lot of money, but Andrew is desperate. At home he carefully mixes the strange combination of ingredients. Then the unexpected happens...

November 21st | at 7:00 | Pie

When Alice's Aunt Polly (the Pie Queen) passes away, she takes with her the secret to her world-famous pie-crust recipe. Or does she? In her will, Polly leaves the recipe to her extraordinarily fat, remarkably disagreeable cat, Lardo . . . and then leaves Lardo in the care of Alice. Suddenly, the whole town is wondering how you leave a recipe to a cat. Everyone wants to be the next big pie-contest winner and it's making them PIE-CRAZY. It's up to Alice and her friend Charlie to put the pieces together and discover the not-so-secret recipe for happiness: Friendship. Family. And the pleasure of doing something for the right reason.

January 16th | at 7:00 | Palace Beautiful

When sisters Sadie and Zuzu Brooks move to Salt Lake City, they discover a secret room in the attic of their new house with a sign that reads "Palace Beautiful" along with an old journal. With their new neighbor, dramatic Belladonna Desolation (actually Kristin Smith), they take turns reading the story of a girl named Helen living during the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918.

February 20th | at 7:00 | Emma Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree

Having always lived as the outsider of the social circle at school, Emma-Jean decides to use the logic her  brilliant mathematician father taught her to fix the problem. But when her logical approach doesn't work, Emma-Jean realizes that she will need to use a new approach to implement the changes she so eagerly wants.

March 20th | at 7:00 | The Hundred Dresses

This Newbery Honor classic, illustrated by a Caldecott Medalist, is a beautifully written tribute to the power of kindness, acceptance, and standing up for what's right. Wanda Petronski is ridiculed by her classmates for wearing the same faded blue dress every day. She claims she has one hundred dresses at home, but everyone knows she doesn’t. When Wanda is pulled out of school one day, the class feels terrible. Classmate Maddie decides that she is "never going to stand by and say nothing again." This is a timeless, gentle tale about bullies, bystanders, and having the courage to speak up.

April 17th | at 7:00 | The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs

Life in Sassafras Springs has always been predictable, boring even. But one afternoon that changes when Eben McAllister's pa challenges him to find Seven Wonders in Sassafras that rival the real Seven Wonders of the World. The reward? An adventure that Eben's been craving, a trip to Colorado. Eben doesn't think he'll have any luck. He can't think of one single thing that could be considered  wondrous in Sassafras.