Jr. Book Club: Wink

Ages 7–11: Ross Maloy just wants to blend in with the rest of his seventh-grade class. He doesn’t want to lose his hair. He doesn’t want to lie on a table with a giant laser pointed at his eye. He doesn’t want a giant “get well soon” card singling him out as the “sick kid” at his school. But his diagnosis of a rare eye cancer means that he has to deal with a lot of things that he doesn’t want to—the awkward questions and concerns from his classmates, the sudden interest his crush has taken in him, and the way his friends are pulling away—in Rob Harrell’s Wink. Attending all sessions of Jr. Book Club is not required, but is recommended.