The Losers Club (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780399557583)

The beloved New York Times bestselling author of the modern classic Frindle celebrates books and the joy of reading with a new school story to love!

Sixth grader Alec can't put a good book down.

So when Principal Vance lays down the law--pay attention in class, or else--Alec takes action. He can't lose all his reading time, so he starts a club. A club he intends 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 and the girl Alec is maybe starting to like--Alec notices something. Real life might be messier than his favorite books, but it's just as interesting.

With The Losers Club, 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!

Winner of the Rhode Island Children's Book Award (2019)
Winner of the International Reading Association and Children's Book Council: Children's Choices List (2018)
Winner of the Garden State Children's Book Award (2020)
2021 Grand Canyon Reader Award Nominee
A Kansas William White Master List Selection (2018 & 2019)
An Arkansas Charlie May Simon Children's Book Award Nominee (2019)
A California Young Reader Medal Nominee (2019)
A Nebraska Golden Sower Award Nominee (2019)
A Virginia Young Readers Program Award Nominee (2019)
A Minnesota Maud Heart Lovelace Award Nominee (2019)
A Missouri Mark Twain Award Nominee (2019)
An Oregon Reader's Choice Award Nominee (2019)

Praise for The Losers Club!
* "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."--School Library Journal, Starred Review

"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. "--The New York Times

Praise for Andrew Clements!
"Clements is a genius." --The New York Times

"We have never read an Andrew Clements book that we haven't loved." --The Washington Post

Author: Andrew Clements
ISBN-10: 039955758X
ISBN-13: 9780399557583
Publisher: Yearling Books
Language: English
Published: 07/10/2018
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 7.50h x 5.10w x 0.70d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.5
Point Value: 7
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 189638 / Losers Club