Cherry Tree Lane Junior Book Club - Eleventh Edition

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Explore and discover books that captivate you—learn how to identify those books that you just can’t put down!

Make friends while sharing your ideas on the reading. Connect with new experiences and worlds through the voices of authors across the globe.

Reading is meant to be fun and interesting, and this club is the place to do exactly that.

Stories, snacks, activities, and no homework!

Our eleventh book is Mystery of the Haunted Dance Hall, a novel by Charis Cotter.

About the book: Set in the '60s at a summer camp, The Mystery of the Haunted Dance Hall is a spooky, atmospheric middle-grade story for fans of classic ghost stories, unlikely friendships and intriguing mysteries. Now available in paperback!
Bee's mom has a job in New York City for the summer, so Bee is being sent to summer camp. She's not excited about it. Being around other people is hard for her, plus she knows nothing about campfires, she's not a good swimmer and she's never even been in a canoe.
When she first arrives, things go pretty much as she expected. The other girls either make fun of her or ignore her, and the woods surrounding the camp give her the creeps: she keeps hearing elusive music coming from somewhere in the distance, and there's something unearthly about it.
But then Zippy comes on the scene — an oddball like Bee, but with a lot more confidence and hard-won knowledge gleaned from many summers spent at this exact camp. And most importantly, Zippy has also discovered mysterious behavior going on at the camp: the older girls from the Hawks cabin are sneaking out to do . . . something. They're always exhausted, and their flashlight batteries are running out at an alarming rate. But their counselors are never woken up by girls sneaking out, no one on staff doing nightly rounds ever sees them outside the cabin, and even when they start doing a bed check at night, the girls all seem to be in their bunks.
Zippy and Bee are on the case, and with the help of an unlikely ally, they try to figure out what the Hawks are up to. But they soon discover there's more going on than just the usual summer-camp hijinks. How are the Hawks getting out at night? What is the deal with the (very cute) mysterious boy who seems to be working with the groundskeeper? Where is the distant music coming from? And what does the reclusive camp founder know about all of it?

Junior Book Club is recommended for readers age 8 and up. This is a recurring club that will meet on the four consecutive Wednesday afternoons in June—June 3, 10, 17 & 24.

A $25 registration fee is required, and includes a paperback copy of the book, snacks, and activities. Club members are welcome to join us starting at 3pm, with the meeting running 3:30–4:30pm.

Ticket price is per participant.

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