Name: The Read Together Book Club
Start: 2024-07-21T13:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-07-21T15:00:00-04:00
Location: Jewish Community Center of Syracuse

Don’t miss The Read Together Book Club! Whether you’re a parent, guardian, aunt, uncle, older sibling, etc., if there’s a younger person you share the love of reading with, these are the book club meetups for you:
On Sunday, July 21, 1-3 pm, we will meet to discuss The Prince of Steel Pier, by Stacy Nockowitz, suggested for readers 11+.
In The Prince of Steel Pier, Joey Goodman is spending the summer at his grandparents’ struggling hotel in Atlantic City, a tourist destination on the decline. Nobody in Joey’s big Jewish family takes him seriously, so when Joey’s Skee-Ball skills land him an unusual job offer from a local mobster, he’s thrilled to be treated like “one of the guys,” and develops a major crush on an older girl in the process. Eventually disillusioned by the mob’s bravado, and ashamed of his own dishonesty, he recalls words of wisdom from his grandfather that finally resonate. Joey realizes where he really belongs: with his family, who drive him crazy, but where no one fights a battle alone. All it takes to get by is one’s wits…and a little help from one’s brothers. This novel is a Winner of the National Jewish Book Award and Tablet Magazine’s Best Jewish Kids Books of the Year.
Then on Thursday, July 25th, 6:30-8 pm, join us as we discuss Thistlefoot, by GennaRose Nethercott, recommended for teens 15+.
The Yaga siblings—Bellatine, a young woodworker, and Isaac, a wayfaring street performer and con artist—have been estranged since childhood, separated both by resentment and by wide miles of American highway. But when they learn that they are to receive an inheritance, the siblings agree to meet—only to discover that their bequest isn’t land or money, but something far stranger: a sentient house on chicken legs.
Thistlefoot, as the house is called, has arrived from the Yagas’ ancestral home outside Kyiv—but not alone. A sinister figure known only as the Longshadow Man has tracked it to American shores, bearing with him violent secrets from the past: fiery memories that have hidden in Isaac and Bellatine’s blood for generations. As the Yaga siblings embark with Thistlefoot on a final cross-country tour of their family’s traveling theater show, the Longshadow Man follows in relentless pursuit, seeding destruction in his wake. Ultimately, time, magic, and legacy must collide—erupting in a powerful conflagration to determine who gets to remember the past and craft a new future. This novel was call ‘Best Book of the Year’ (2022) NPR, The Wall Street Journal, and BookRiot and was a Finalist for the Audie’s ‘Best Female Narrator’ category.