West Hartford Reads! Book Discussion: Harbor Me (NWL)

Grades 5-7

Join us for a West Hartford Reads! book discussion, featuring Jacqueline Woodson's book Harbor Me. You will receive a copy of the book prior to the start of the book clubs. Each participant will also receive a “goodie bag” of story-related items! Please register.

About the Book

With her always honest, lyrical writing, Jacqueline Woodson celebrates the power of friendship, open-minded dialogue and empathy. Six fifth-graders meet together in the ARTT Room (“A Room to Talk”) for a weekly chat to talk about things that they usually keep private. When they are together, the group finds that they can express the feelings and fears they commonly hide from the world. Together, they can grow braver.

About the Author

Jacqueline Woodson is an American writer of books for adults, children, and adolescents. She is best known for her National Book Award-Winning memoir Brown Girl Dreaming, and her Newbery Honor-winning titles After Tupac and D Foster, Feathers, and Show Way. Her picture books The Day You Begin and The Year We Learned to Fly were NY Times Bestsellers. After serving as the Young People’s Poet Laureate from 2015 to 2017, she was named the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature by the Library of Congress for 2018–19. She was awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 2020. Later that same year, she was named a MacArthur Fellow. She will be joining us on Thursday, October 17 at Sedgwick Middle School for an author talk and book signing.