The Losers Club

By Andrew Clements

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.

The Losers Club is a love letter to books and to reading, and reminds us that sometimes the best stories are the ones that happen off the page—our own!

Available in Audio

Published August 2017 by Random House

230 pages

Available in English, Italian, Japanese, Turkish, Korean, Complex Chinese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, and Romanian

Hi Mrs. Haddon. Um, this guy I know? He's kind of a jerk, and he thinks reading is stupid, so I have to find something he'll like--even if he tries not to."

The librarian smiled. "In my business, we don't call them jerks--we call them reluctant readers. . . ."

—a question from Alec Spencer, founder of the Losers Club

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