Join us for our all-new monthly book club, celebrating Connecticut’s own kid’s book award, for kids in grades 4-6! Books are available for pickup starting October 1 with a special Nutmeg Book Club Kit that includes activities, stickers, bookmarks, and other goodies related to the book!

This month we are reading Loki: A Bad God's Guide to Being Good by Louie Stowell. Read the book on your own and then join us at the library for a fun discussion and related activity. Our meeting is on October 30th from 4-5 PM.

Essex Library programs are free and open to the public. Space is limited, registration is required.

About the Book: After one prank too many, trickster god Loki has been banished to live as a kid on Earth. If he can show moral improvement within one month, he can return to Asgard. If he can't? Eternity in a pit of angry snakes. Rude! To keep track of Loki’s progress, King Odin (a bossy poo-poo head) gives him this magical diary in which Loki is forced to confess the truth, even when that truth is as ugly as a naked mole rat. To make matters worse, Loki has to put up with an eleven-year-old Thor tagging along and making him look bad. Loki is not even allowed to use his awesome godly powers! As Loki suffers the misery of school lunch, discovers the magic of internet videos, and keeps watch for frost giant spies, will he finally learn to tell good from bad, trust from tricks, and friends from enemies? Louie Stowell’s witty text and hysterical drawings will keep readers in stitches from start to finish.