Teen Book Club & Pizza Lunch!
Saturday, May 10th at 1:00pm
Grades 6 and up.

Join us on the Second Saturday of each month for a pizza lunch and book discussion! In May we will be discussing Not Nothing by Gayle Forman. Copies of the book are available for check out at OWL, Plumb Hill Middle School and Lakeview High School.

Alex is twelve, and he did something very, very bad. A judge sentences him to spend his summer volunteering at a retirement home where he’s bossed around by an annoying and self-important do-gooder named Maya-Jade. He hasn’t seen his mom in a year, his aunt and uncle don’t want him, and Shady Glen’s geriatric residents seem like zombies to him.

Josey is 107 and ready for his life to be over. He has evaded death many times, having survived ghettos, dragnets, and a concentration camp—all thanks to the heroism of a woman named Olka and his own ability to sew. But now he spends his days in room 206 at Shady Glen, refusing to speak and waiting (and waiting and waiting) to die. Until Alex knocks on Josey’s door…and Josey begins to tell Alex his story.

As Alex comes back again and again to hear more, an unlikely bond grows between them. Soon a new possibility opens up for Alex: Can he rise to the occasion of his life, even if it means confronting the worst thing that he’s ever done?

Registration is required for pizza purposes.

Oliver Wolcott Library
160 South Street
Litchfield, CT 06759
https://www.owlibrary.org/teen-programs.aspx