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Books for Book Clubs

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About the Service

MPHPL’s Book Club Collections are perfect to use in an educational or book club setting. MPHPL offers three collections separated by reading and audience level: Elementary, Teen and Adult.

Lending Rules

  • Multiple copies of a title may be borrowed for a six-week loan period. There is no renewal option.
  • Up to two titles may be borrowed at a time.
  • An adult MPHPL card is required.
  • All requests must be submitted at least one week prior to the pickup date.
  • The adult cardholder is responsible for books in the collection including any fines for late materials and all replacement costs for lost or damaged materials.

How it Works

Below you’ll review the available titles and fill out a request form. You’ll receive a notification when your collection is ready for pick up.

Review Available Titles

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Elementary Collection
TitleTotal # of Copies
11 Birthdays30
All-of-a-Kind Family17
Best School Year Ever19
Billy Creekmore31
Blizzard of Glass: The Halifax Explosion of 191725
Book Scavenger29
Boys Start the War25
Brown Girl Dreaming25
Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the Stolen Diamonds20
Capture the Flag23
Castle in the Attic28
Chasing Vermeer32
Chocolate Touch, The30
City of Ember30
Civil War on Sunday24
Cricket in Times Square23
Crispin: The Cross of Lead23
Counting by 7’s30
Dicey’s Song20
Dog’s Life, A28
Eleven16
Escape From Mr. Lemoncello’s Library25
Everything on a Waffle19
Fairy-Tale Detectives, The30
Flora & Ulysses25
Flush22
Found25
Frindle24
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler22
Ghost25
Ghosts26
Giraffe and the Pelly and Me, The16
Gone-Away Lake23
Graveyard Book31
Handful of Stars24
Hatchet29
Hidden Figures28
Holes30
Homework Machine23
Honus & Me28
Ida B. and Her Plans to Maximize Fun25
I Survived: the Nazi Invasion25
I Survived: the San Francisco Earthquake, 190625
Knots in My Yo-Yo String12
Legend of Thunderfoot, The19
Leprechaun in Late Winter12
Lifeboat 1225
Lions of Little Rock25
Littles, The25
Little Wolf’s Book of Badness28
Love That Dog24
Midnight on the Moon20
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane28
Mistakes Were Made25
Mr. Popper’s Penguins29
My Life in Dog Years23
My Side of the Mountain25
New Kid25
Night Diary25
Night of the Twisters28
No Talking29
One and Only Ivan30
Out of My Mind22
Phantom Tollbooth32
Pictures of Hollis Woods28
Pie21
Poppy21
Regarding the Fountain26
Roll With It25
Rules24
Runt22
Sal & Gabi Break the Universe25
Save Me a Seat30
Sideways Stories from Wayside School20
Small Steps29
Space Case25
Strange Case of Origami Yoda25
Story Thieves25
Summer School! : What Genius Thought That Up?29
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing29
Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer29
Time for Andrew27
Tornado20
Touch Blue30
Treasure Hunter28
True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle25
Tuck Everlasting16
Twenty-One Balloons22
Unplugged25
View from Saturday27
Week in the Woods39
Westing Game34
What was the Great Chicago Fire?25
Whipping Boy, The27
Wink25
Wish29
Wolf Hollow25
Worth36
Wonder21
Wrinkle in Time27
Zane and the Hurricane25

Complete the Request Form

Requests may be submitted:

Pick Up Your Collection

You will be notified when your collection is ready. Collections not picked up within seven working days after the requested date will be returned to the shelf, and a new request form will need to be submitted.