Events › Online ESL Book Club: October 2024

Do you want to join a book club but feel uncomfortable with your English skills?

Join our ESL Book Club! Practice reading and speaking English while having fun and making new friends.

For the next book club meeting we will be reading Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok.

When 11-year-old Kimberly Chang and her mother emigrate from Hong Kong to Brooklyn squalor, she quickly begins a secret double life: exceptional schoolgirl during the day, Chinatown sweatshop worker in the evenings. Disguising the more difficult truths of her life, like her secret love for a factory boy who shares none of her talent or ambition, Kimberly learns to constantly translate not just her language but herself back and forth between the worlds she straddles.

We will discuss the book at the meeting.

Digital and hard copies are available in the SCCLD catalog.

Registration is required.

You will receive an email with the Zoom link for the discussion a few days before the discussion and on the day of the discussion a reminder email will also contain a Zoom link.

If you are not familiar with Zoom, please review these resources:

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