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 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 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
