The Girl in the Well Is Me - Online Book Club
- Leanna Chappell
- Jul 1
- 2 min read
Updated: Jul 5
Welcome to our online book club for grades 5-8! We are excited for you to join us in reading The Girl in the Well Is Me by Karen Rivers.
Along with a free copy of the book, you will receive a review page so you can tell us what you thought of the book! You will also receive a questions page to consider, activity pages, and an information page with cool links related to the book!
Kits are ready for pickup today, Tuesday, July 1! Please remember that we have a limited number of kits available, so it's first come, first served. If you have any special requests or need accommodations, please let Leanna or Michelle know!
All we ask is that you read the book: do as much or as little of the rest of it as you want. No matter how much you do, the book is yours!
"The Girl in the Well Is Me" by Karen Rivers.
"Sixth-grader Kammie Summers’s plan to be one of the popular girls at school hasn’t gone the way she hoped. She’s fallen into a well during a (fake) initiation into the Girls’ club. Now she’s trapped in the dark, counting the hours, hoping to be rescued. (The Girls have gone for help, haven’t they?) As the hours go by, Kammie’s real-life trouble mixes with memories of the best and worst moments of her life so far, including the awful reasons her family moved to this new town in the first place. And as she begins to feel hungry and thirsty and dizzy, Kammie discovers she does have visitors, including a French-speaking coyote and goats that just might be zombies. But they can’t get her out of the well. (Those Girls are coming back, aren’t they?)”
Here are the following pages that you will receive with your kit!
More about the author and the world of The Girl in the Well Is Me:
Karen Rivers’s site:
People’s recent article on Baby Jessica, the child who inspired the story:
Simon and Garfunkel’s official site:
PBS’s collection on learning French:
NIEH’s collection of knock knock jokes:
Included as well: a word search, a word search, a maze, and a recipe for oatmeal chocolate cookies.
We hope you enjoy these activities and would love to hear what you thought of the book! We also hope you enjoyed the extra links. Remember, you can comment here on this website, email us at swantonpl@gmail.com, or come in and turn in a physical copy!
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