http://highschoolreaders.wetpaint.com/

I am in a multicultural high school where over 90% do not speak English at home. Reading is not a preferred activity and readers were almost an endangered species! I have always made contact with other schools so that our kids to see they are part of a valued world community of readers, but this is a bit different.

This is a Delany Book Club effort ( with a little nudge from me).
We knew not every school would have free access for students to join and post, so we are inviting the librarians to join, with full rights. The kids all have their handles which are listed, and they need to sign their posts, which are then posted by the library staff. We hope that this can be relaxed in the future, but my visits to schools in October revealed that there is a lot of limits on Internet access in both the UK and Pennsylvania.

If you are in a school library, consider joining us and email me at jalera1@yahoo.com


It is a wetpaint education site, so has no advertising.

It is not time consuming - your group only have to suggest a few favourite authors (hopefully mostly local) and then read a book from an author suggested by another group and post a review.
The key is for each review and subsequent posting to contain some thoughtful questions so that it is easy for others who have read the book to respond.


OK... so it is formal, but it is
1. Our first wiki (drum roll... clap clap clap...
2. Mostly student driven - the history is currently up at http://delanylibrary.com and includes 2 podcasts.
3. It does not require students to read more than a book at a time and so may fit in with other reading programs that are running in the school

AND
It could do with more members!

So if you are in a school library, maybe you could put this to your Book Club and see what they think!