The Losers Club

<p>The beloved <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author of the modern classic Frindle celebrates books and the joy of reading with a new school story to love!<br /> <br />Sixth grader Alec can't put a good book down.<br /> <br />So when Principal Vance lays down the law&mdash;pay attention in class, or <em>else</em>&mdash;Alec takes action. He can't lose all his reading time, so he starts a club. A club he <em>intends</em> 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&mdash;including his ex-friend turned bully <em>and</em> the girl Alec is maybe starting to like&mdash;Alec notices something. Real life might be messier than his favorite books, but it's just as interesting.<br /> <br />With <em>The Losers Club</em>, 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&mdash;our own!</p> <p><strong>Winner of the Rhode Island Children's Book Award (2019)</strong><br /><strong>Winner of the International Reading Association and Children's Book Council: Children's Choices List (2018)</strong><br /><strong>Winner of the Garden State Childrens Book Award (2020)</strong><br /><strong>2021 Grand Canyon Reader Award Nominee</strong><br /><strong>A Kansas William White Master List Selection (2018 &amp; 2019)</strong><br /><strong>An Arkansas Charlie May Simon Children's Book Award Nominee (2019)</strong><br /><strong>A California Young Reader Medal Nominee (2019)</strong><br /><strong>A Nebraska Golden Sower Award Nominee (2019)</strong><br /><strong>A Virginia Young Readers Program Award Nominee (2019)</strong><br /><strong>A Minnesota Maud Heart Lovelace Award Nominee (2019) </strong><br /><strong>A Missouri Mark Twain Award Nominee (2019)</strong><br /><strong>An Oregon Reader's Choice Award Nominee (2019)</strong><br /> <br /><strong>Praise for <em>The Losers Club</em>!</strong><br /> "Clements' latest is engaging and funny. A laugh-out-loud first purchase for all middle grade collections, and a solid read-aloud choice for classrooms."&mdash;<em>School Library Journal</em>, Starred Review</p> <p>"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." &mdash;<em>The New York Times</em></p> <p><strong>Praise for Andrew Clements!</strong><br />"Clements is a genius." &mdash;<em>The New York Times</em><br /> <br />"We have never read an Andrew Clements book that we haven't loved." &mdash;<em>The Washington Post</em></p>