The tools to turn your classroom into a vibrant community of readers and learners are virtually at your fingertips. Whether you're an elementary or a middle school teacher, familiar with Book Club or just starting out, you'll find the materials you need right here.

Book Club: A Literature-Based Curriculum,
Second Edition
Book Club: A Literature-Based Curriculum is a comprehensive guide to implementing Book Club in your grade 3 through 6 classroom. The handbook includes an introduction to the program, teaching tips, and five teaching units with detailed lesson plans.

Book Club Plus! A Literacy Framework
for the Primary Grades
Book Club Plus! offers practical advice on adapting Book Club methodology to any primary-grade classroom in any school district. Introductory chapters cover such topics as content and curriculum, writing, talk in the classroom, assessment and classroom management.

Book Club for Middle School
Book Club for Middle School contains everything you need to adapt Book Club to your middle school classroom (grades 6 through 8). The handbook outlines the program components, discusses the specific needs of adolescent learners, and offers several fully developed teaching units.

Book Club Video
The Book Club videotape is the perfect companion to the teacher's handbooks. Through classroom footage and interviews with program authors, it provides an overview of the Book Club program, examples of how it works with real students, and tips from experienced teachers.

Novel Guides
Book Club novel guides provide teaching units based on the best literature for young readers, from time-honored classics to the most recent Newbery Award winners. Novel guides provide background information about each book, detailed daily lesson plans, and blackline masters.

Novels
Purchase single copies or class sets of novels featured in Planet Book Club's teaching units and novel guides.

Additional Online Resources
To support our novel guides and online discussions, we've assembled a list of Internet resources to help you teach the units. Resources include web sites dealing with relevant topics as well as sites that publish theme-related literature (e.g., short stories and poems).