We are very excited to partner with the Remann Hall Book Club for youth in detention! This program seeks to get books in the hands of youth in detention. Twice a month, they meet to discuss books specially selected for them with messages of overcoming struggles and hopefulness.
How can I help?
You can help this new program by purchasing a copy of the book for a youth! You can:
- Come into the bookstore to buy a copy (at 20% off). We will set the book aside and give all the purchased books to the program!
- Buy a book online. The link to the book is below. Purchase the book and put in the notes that is is for the Remann Hall Book Club!
- If you don't want to buy a book, but want to help the program, contact Carrie Appling, Volunteer Services Coordinator, Pierce County Juvenile Court, 253.798.3837.
Sounds great! Tell me more.
The youth served by Pierce County Juvenile Court have experienced significant disruptions in their lives and require healing, self-knowledge, and the understanding of others. We believe reading quality books with themes of struggle and hopefulness can help a young person begin the healing process and start a lasting course-correction in his or her life. This is the impetus for our desire to start a Remann Hall book club, a ‘good gang’ of kids who are interested in sharing their ideas and insights gained from their reading experiences.
People read books for varied reasons: information, entertainment, companionship. We believe many Remann Hall youth need more forms of healthy companionship in their lives and more information about how to go about finding those resources. Our book selections will focus on meeting companionship needs – books that will assure the young readers they are not alone in feeling unhappiness, frustration, fear, or even pain. We will offer books that promise them someone understands them. By giving them a book of their own, we will demonstrate how much we and other members of the community care about them.
Previous Reads
March 2017: Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes
March 2017: Paint Me Like I Am by Bill Aguado and Richard Newirth
February 2017: Peak by Roland Smith
February 2017: March: Book One by John Lewis
January 2017: Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
January 2017: The Edge of Nowhere by Elizabeth George
December 2016: The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
November 2016: Holes by Louis Sachar
November 2016: Keesha's House by Helen Frost
October 2016: Just One Day by Gayle Forman
September 2016: The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
September 2016: "Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare and "West Side Story" by Paul Werstine
August 2016: The Boys in the Boat (Young Readers Adaptation) by Daniel James Brown
June 2016: Paintings from the Cave by Gary Paulsen
June 2016: The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
May 2016: Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
May 2016: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
April 2016: Tell the World by Writerscorps
April 2016: Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
March 2016: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
March 2016: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
February 2016: First Love by James Patterson & Emily Raymond
January 2016: Trash by Andy Mulligan
January 2016: The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
November 2015: The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore
October 2015: Rules of Attraction by Simone Elkeles
October 2015: I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
September 2015: The Warrior's Heart by Eric Greitens
September 2015: Monster by Walter Dean Myers
August 2015: We Were Here by Matt de la Peña
August 2015: Paper Towns by John Green
July 2015: Boy21 by Matthew Quick
July 2015: The Odyssey by Gareth Hinds
June 2015: The Outsiders by SE Hinton
June 2015: Legends of the Rif by Joe O'Neill
May 2015: Rebels of the Kasbah & Wrath of the Caid by Joe O'Neill
May 2015: Hollow City by Ransom Riggs
April 2015: Paint Me Like I Am: Teen Poems from Writerscorps
April 2015: The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
March 2015: The Maze Runner by James Dashner
March 2015: Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen
February 2015: The Good Lord Bird by James McBride
February 2015: Where She Went by Gayle Forman
January 2015: Darius & Twig by Walter Dean Myers
January 2015: Legends of the Rif by Joe O'Neill
December 2014: A Dog's Purpose by W. Bruce Cameron
November 2014: Rebels of the Kasbah by Joe O'Neill
October 2014: Fat Kid Rules the World by KL Going
October 2014: The Running Dream by Wendelin Van Draanen
September 2014: American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
September 2014: Looking for Alaska by John Green
August 2014: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
July 2014: If I Stay by Gayle Forman
July 2014: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
June 2014: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
June 2014: The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
April 2014: Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen
April 2014: Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
March 2014: A Separate Peace by John Knowles
March 2014: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass
February 2014: The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
February 2014: All the Right Stuff by Walter Dean Myers
January 2014: The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
December 2013: Holes by Louis Sachar
November 2013: The Giver by Lois Lowry
October 2013: Whale Talk by Chris Crutcher
September 2013: Looking for Alaska by John Green
August 2013: Driver's Ed by Caroline B. Cooney
July 2013: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
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