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405 S. Main Street
Bentonville, AR 72712
Mon-Thu
Fri-Sat
Sun
9am – 8pm
9am – 5pm
Closed
Read, think, and share ideas about great books! This month, we're talking about "Good Different" by Meg Eden Kuyatt. For children entering 4th - 6th grade.
All 15 participants to register will receive a free copy of the book, generously purchased by the Friends of the Library. You must attend the book club meeting in order to keep the book.
Additional copies are available for checkout at BPL and on the Libby app.
Book Summary:
A novel-in-verse about a neurodivergent girl with comes to understand and celebrate her difference.
Selah knows her rules for being normal.
She always, always sticks to them. This means keeping her feelings locked tightly inside, despite the way they build up inside her as each school day goes on, so that she has to run to the bathroom and hide in a stall until she can calm down- so that she has to tear off her normal-person mask the second she gets home from school and listen to her favorite song on repeat, trying to recharge. Selah feels like a dragon stuck in a world of humans, but she knows how to hide it.
Until the day she hits a fellow student.
Selah's friends pull away from her, her school threatens to expel her, and her comfortable, familiar world begins to crumble around her.
But as Selah starts to figure out more about who she is, she comes to understand that different doesn't necessarily mean damaged. Can she get her school and her friends to understand that too, before it's too late?
Questions? Email Sarah Hanst, Children's Library Specialist - shanst@bentonvillear.com
Bentonville Public Library is located just 3 blocks south of the Downtown Square, at 405 S. Main Street in Bentonville, Arkansas. Facility amenities include an engaging adult collection with private study rooms, vibrant children's and teen spaces, community meeting rooms, genealogy research center and café.
