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 can't put a good book down. So when Principal Vance lays down the law-pay attention in class, or else-Alec takes action. He can't lose all his reading time, so he starts a club. A club he intends to be the only member of. After all, reading isn't a team sport,...
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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 can't put a good book down.

So when Principal Vance lays down the law-pay attention in class, or else-Alec takes action. He can't lose all his reading time, so he starts a club. A club he intends to be the only member of. After all, reading isn't 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 Alec's club-including his ex-friend turned bully and the girl Alec is maybe starting to like-Alec notices something. Real life might be messier than his favorite books, but it's just as interesting.

With The Losers Club, Andrew Clements brings us a new school story that's a love letter to books and to reading and that reminds us that sometimes the best stories are the ones that happen off the page-our own!

Winner of theRhode Island Children's Book Award (2019)
Winner of theInternational Reading Association and Children's Book Council- Children's Choices List (2018)
Winner of the Garden State Children's Book Award (2020)
2021GrandCanyonReader Award Nominee
AKansas William White Master List Selection (2018 & 2019)
AnArkansas Charlie May Simon Children's Book Award Nominee (2019)
ACalifornia Young Reader Medal Nominee (2019)
ANebraska Golden Sower Award Nominee (2019)
AVirginia Young Readers Program Award Nominee (2019)
A Minnesota Maud Heart Lovelace Award Nominee (2019)
AMissouri Mark Twain Award Nominee (2019)
AnOregon Reader's Choice Award Nominee (2019)

Praise for The Losers Club!
* "Clements's 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 haven't loved." -The Washington Post