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Teen Book Club at Grove Hall is a place to encourage students to read, to read books by authors of color, and to read banned books. Specifically, it is for teens in grades 7-12 of the 2024-2025 school year. We aim to build a sense of community and to give students something to look forward to outside of school reading. 

We have 2 meetings per book: Monday, February 24 and Monday, March 10. The first 10 teen attendees to join Teen Book Club get a free personal copy of the book to keep, Dear Martin by Nic Stone

"Writing letters to the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., seventeen-year-old college-bound Justyce McAllister struggles to face the reality of race relations today and how they are shaping him." 

Nic Stone is a native of Atlanta and a Spelman College graduate. After working extensively in teen mentoring and living in Israel for a few years, she returned to the United States to write full-time. Dear Martin, her first novel, is loosely based on a series of true events involving the shooting deaths of unarmed African American teenagers. Shaken by the various responses to these incidents––and to the pro-justice movement that sprang up as a result––Stone began the project in an attempt to examine current affairs through the lens of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s teachings.


Grove Hall Teen Book Club is made possible by Roxbury neighbor and partner, Frugal Bookstore https://frugalbookstore.net/

Frugal Bookstore

57 Warren Street

Roxbury, MA 02119

frugal_books@yahoo.com

For more information about the book, visit author Nic Stones website www.nicstone.info