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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My dd sounds a lot like yours. She started a book club with 5 of her friends who also love to read. It didn’t matter that she was reading higher level books than they were usually because she continues to enjoy all level books despite her abilities. We would pick 3-4 books and have the girls vote on the one to read. They would get together and talk about their favorite parts and characters, then it would dissolve into a play date (much like my book club which dissolved from the book discussion into a drinking wine and talking about life party). But it got all of those girls into different books and talking about them and enjoying them. [/quote]

Be sure to let everyone know what the deadline is to have finished the book.  I tried this three times in elemtary school (no parent involved), but although two of the kids kept doing it, I got too frustrated with them taking a week or more to read the book.  However, in middle school, we got a group together and we split up a list, so that worked much better.  I would wait until 1-2 days before the group met, and everyone else could take 1-2 weeks to read their books.  Best of all, nobody got mad at me for wanting to talk about shocking events or cliffhangers if I took two days to read, because I wasn’t spoiling anything for them.  Because we each presented a book, talked about things we liked and didn’t like, but didn’t give away the endings, I always had ideas for other books to read, and occasionally one of the other kids would read something that was presented.[/quote]

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