Students and families can choose one of the 2 books selected for each club meeting. Families are encouraged to read the books alongside their students. An adult must be in attendance with their student. Please contact Mona Mouneimne ([email protected]) if you have any questions.

DANCING THE TINIKLING - "Jojo, come dance!" Lola calls, inviting him to leap between the clapping and slapping bamboo poles and dance the tinikling with her. Whirling, twirling, and singing in Tagalog, Jojo tries but trips. Lola dances between the two poles easily, the same way she dances between their American and Filipino cultures--Jojo knows that dance! And finally, spinning and hopping to the rhythm of his life, he's dancing the tinikling!

A LONG PITCH HOME - Ten-year-old Bilal liked his life back home in Pakistan. He was a star on his cricket team. But whenhis father suddenly sends the family to live with their aunt and uncle in America, nothing is familiar.While Bilal tries to keep up with his cousin Jalaal by joining a baseball league and practicing hisEnglish, he wonders when his father will join the family in Virginia. Maybe if Bilal can prove himself onthe pitcher’s mound, his father will make it to see him play. But playing baseball means navigatingrelationships with the guys, and with Jordan, the only girl on the team—the player no one but Bilalwants to be friends with.