The Losers Club

The Losers Club

"A winning school story that celebrates new experiences and the joy of books." - Seira Wilson, Amazon Editor<br><br><b>The beloved <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of the modern classic <i>Frindle</i> celebrates books and the joy of reading with a new school story to love!</b><br>  <br> Sixth grader Alec can’t put a good book down.<br>  <br> So when Principal Vance lays down the law—pay attention in class, or <i>else</i>—Alec takes action. He can’t lose all his reading time, so he starts a club. A club he <i>intends</i> to 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 bully <i>and</i> the girl Alec is maybe starting to like—Alec notices something. Real life might be messier than his favorite books, but it’s<i> just </i>as interesting.<br>  <br> With <i>The Losers Club,</i> 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!<br>  <br> <b>Praise for <i>The Losers Club</i>!<br></b>* "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."<b>—<i>School Library Journal</i>, Starred Review</b><br><br>"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. "—<b><i>The New York Times</i></b><br><br><b>Praise for Andrew Clements!</b><br> “Clements is a genius.” —<i>The New York Times</i><br>  <br> “We have never read an Andrew Clements book that we haven’t loved.” —<i>The Washington Post</i>