Cover to Cover Book Club

  You are invited to discuss The Red Umbrella by Christina Gonzalez February 14th, 2022 3:00 p.m. South Sioux City Public Library  Meeting Room 2121 Dakota Avenue  Refreshments are served. All are welcome. Description:   In 1961 after Castro has come to power in Cuba, fourteen-year-old Lucia and her seven-year-old brother are sent to the United States when her parents, who are not in favor of the new regime, fear that the children will be taken away from them as others have been. Educator's Guide 

  Discussion  January 10th, 2022 South Sioux City Public Library Meeting Room  2121 Dakota Avenue 3:00 p.m. Refreshments are served All are welcome Book Description:  The stories of a small Cape Cod postmistress and an American radio reporter stationed in London collide on the eve of the United States' entrance into World War II, a meeting that is shaped by a broken promise to deliver a letter. Discussion Questions 

  Discussion  March 28, 2022 South Sioux City Public Library  Meeting Room  2121 Dakota Avenue South Sioux City Public Library  2121 Dakota Avenue 3:00 p.m. Refreshments Served All are welcome! Summary:  Claude Wheeler, the sensitive, aspiring protagonist of this beautifully modulated novel, resembles the youngest son of a peculiarly American fairy tale. His fortune is ready-made for him, but he refuses to settle for it. Alienated from his crass father and pious mother, all but rejected by a wife who reserves her ardor for missionary work, and dissatisfied with farming, Claude is an idealist without an ideal to cling to. It is only when his country enters the First World War that Claude finds what he has been searching for all his life. Discussion Questions  https://www.willacather.org/sites/default/files/files/6259/one_of_ours_discussion_questions.pdf 

  The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom  January 24, 2022 South Sioux City Public Library  Meeting Room 2121 Dakota Avenue  South Sioux City, NE  3:00 p.m. Refreshment served All are welcome! Summary:  Orphaned during her passage from Ireland, young, white Lavinia arrives on the steps of the kitchen house and is placed, as an indentured servant, under the care of Belle, the master's illegitimate slave daughter. Lavinia learns to cook, clean, and serve food, while guided by the quiet strength and love of her new family.  In time, Lavinia is accepted into the world of the big house, caring for the master's opium-addicted wife and befriending his dangerous yet protective son. She attempts to straddle the worlds of the kitchen and big house, but her skin color will forever set her apart from Belle and the other slaves. Discussion Questions 

    Discussion December 27th South Sioux City Public Library  Meeting Room  2121 Dakota Avenue South Sioux City, NE 3:00 p.m. Refreshments Served All are welcome! Summary:  In the tradition of the New York Times bestseller The Blind Side, The Invisible Thread tells of the unlikely friendship between a busy executive and a disadvantaged young boy, and how both of their lives changed forever.. Discussion Questions  Available at Nebraska Overdrive Libraries

  Discussion December 13th, 2021 South Sioux City Public Library  Meeting Room  2121 Dakota Avenue South Sioux City, NE  3:00 p.m. Refreshments Served All are welcome! Summary: More than anything, Eddie wants a bicycle for Christmas, but his grandfather shows him the magic there can be in a simple gift made with love. Discussion Questions