SPOKANE, Wash. — The Spokane Library is starting digital book clubs during social distancing, and one librarian has book recommendations for all ages to help keep people entertained.
The library will host a book club for kids ages 6 to 12 on Thursday, where they'll have the opportunity to talk about what books they've been reading with other kids. You can register on the library's website.
The library will also be hosting a round table discussion for adults from 6 to 7 p.m., Thursday.
If you're looking for book recommendations, check out what the library recommends for different age groups below.
For adults:
- State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
For teens:
- Ready, Player One by Ernest Cline
For kids:
- Henry Huggins by Beverly Cleary
For all age groups:
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
- Watership Down by Richard Adams
You can check all of those books out as e-books on the library's digital platforms.
Digital platforms through the library for accessing books and movies are:
- Hoopla: audiobooks, ebooks, comics, TV shows or movies. You can borrow 10 titles per month per library card
- RBDigital: audiobooks, magazines, some ebooks. Unlimited borrowing is available.
- Overdrive: ebooks. You can borrow 20 titles per card at a time
- Kanopy: streaming movies. You can borrow 8 titles per month, some titles and all of KIDS is credit free.
- TumbleBooks: kids books in French, Spanish and English.