The Losers Club [Paperback]

The belovedNew York Timesbestselling author of the modern classicFrindlecelebrates books and the joy of reading with a new school story to love!
 
Sixth grader Alec can’t put a good book down.
 
So when Principal Vance lays down the law—pay attention in class, orelse—Alec takes action. He can’t lose all his reading time, so he starts a club. A club heintendsto be the only member of. After all, reading isn’t a team sport, and no one would want to join something called the Losers Club, right? But as more and more kids find their way to Alec’s club—including his ex-friend turned bullyandthe girl Alec is maybe starting to like—Alec notices something. Real life might be messier than his favorite books, but it’sjustas interesting.
 
WithThe Losers Club,Andrew Clements brings us a new school story that’s a love letter to books and to reading and that reminds us that sometimes the best stories are the ones that happen off the page—our own!
 
Praise forThe Losers Club!
* Clements’s latest is engaging and funny. A laugh-out-loud first purchase for all middle grade collections, and a solid read-aloud choice for classrooms. —School Library Journal, Starred Review

Clements is out to celebrate reading in all its obsessiveness, and...tosses in shout-outs to a passel of other writers. [The Losers Club] gives fried bookworms everywhere the satisfaction of knowing that friends may desert them (if only temporarily) but books never will.  —The New York Times

Praise for Andrew Clements!
“Clements is a genius.” —The New York Times
 
“We have never read an Andrew Clements book that we haven’t loved.” —The Washington PostPraise forThe Losers Club

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