The Losers Club

The beloved New York Times bestselling author of the modern classic Frindle celebrates books and the joy of reading with a new school story to love! Sixth grader Alec cant put a good book down. So when Principal Vance lays down the lawpay attention in class, or elseAlec takes action. He cant lose all his reading time, so he starts a club. A club he intends to be the only member of. After all, reading isnt a team sport, and no one would want to join something called the Losers Club, right? But as more and more kids find their way to Alecs clubincluding his ex-friend turned bully and the girl Alec is maybe starting to likeAlec notices something. Real life might be messier than his favorite books, but its just as interesting. With The Losers Club, Andrew Clements brings us a new school story thats a love letter to books and to reading and that reminds us that sometimes the best stories are the ones that happen off the pageour own! Winner of the Rhode Island Children's Book Award (2019) Winner of the International Reading Association and Children's Book Council: Children's Choices List (2018) Winner of the Garden State Children's Book Award (2020) 2021 Grand Canyon Reader Award Nominee A Kansas William White Master List Selection (2018 & 2019) An Arkansas Charlie May Simon Children's Book Award Nominee (2019) A California Young Reader Medal Nominee (2019) A Nebraska Golden Sower Award Nominee (2019) A Virginia Young Readers Program Award Nominee (2019) A Minnesota Maud Heart Lovelace Award Nominee (2019) A Missouri Mark Twain Award Nominee (2019) An Oregon Readers Choice Award Nominee (2019) Praise for The Losers Club! * "Clementss latest is engaging and funny. A laugh-out-loud first purchase for all middle grade collections, and a solid read-aloud choice for classrooms."School Library Journal, Starred Review "Clements is out to celebrate reading in all its obsessiveness, and...tosses in shout-outs to a passel of other writers. [The Losers Club] gives fried bookworms everywhere the satisfaction of knowing that friends may desert them (if only temporarily) but books never will. "The New York Times Praise for Andrew Clements! Clements is a genius. The New York Times We have never read an Andrew Clements book that we havent loved. The Washington Post