23rd meeeting

Our today's story: "Wake Up, Scooterville" by Judith Bauer Stamper

All of us were happy to see each other again, after the longer break Bookworms Book Club took for the Ramadan and the Eid. As we sat down on the carpet for the story time, we agreed that all us had had really great Eid this year and all of us wished that the holidays would have beeen loger - not just four days but a week, a month, or, as somebody suggested, even thousand years! ;) Now from this you can easily guess that all of us really like to have long holidays.

Today's story was about a family living in a town called Scooterville. The characters in the book were: Mrs. Johnson (the mother), Ky and Alice (her kids). Every morning as they were having their breakfast, the Johnson family liked to listen to a radio show hosted by Howie Brown.

So it happened that one day Howie Brown decided to hold on his radio show a mystery contest that would last for three days. Each day, he was giving a clue to this mystery. The whole Scooterville was excited about this contest and everybody wanted to win. However, it was Alice, who was the lucky one to guess the right answer for the mystery contest. It turned out that Howie Brown had been giving clues about the Scooter Creek that was flowing through the town. He wanted the people of the town to 'wake up' and pay attention to the sad situation the creek was in - it was very polluted and dirty. Once the contest was over and Alice had won, the whole village went out to the Scooter Creek and cleaned it up from all the garbage.

After the story, Umm Uzair handed to us small pieces of paper with some mysterious letters on them, which we were supposed to colour. We coloured them, wrote our names on them and handed them back to Umm Uzair. As we were having our snack later on, Umm Uzair showed us the solution to our mystery - each of us had been colouring a part of a big poster, which said "BOOKWORMS BOOK CLUB" on it! What a colourful poster it came out to be! Now this poster will be greeting us every time, as we come back for book club meetings.

Today, we welcomed to our book club three new members: Emaan, Huda and Yusra!