The Losers Club, Clements Andrew

Sixth grader Alec cant put a good book down.

So when Principal Vance lays down the law--pay attention in class, or else--Alec takes action. He cant lose all his reading time, so he starts a club. A club he intends to be the only member of. After all, reading isnt 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 Alecs 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 its just as interesting.

With The Losers Club, Andrew Clements brings us a new school story thats 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 Childrens Book Award (2019)
Winner of the International Reading Association and Childrens Book Council: Childrens Choices List (2018)
Winner of the Garden State Childrens Book Award (2020)
2021 Grand Canyon Reader Award Nominee
A Kansas William White Master List Selection (2018 & 2019)
An Arkansas Charlie May Simon Childrens 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 Readers Choice Award Nominee (2019)

Praise for The Losers Club
* Clementss 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