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Time: 18:00 - 20:00

Date: 22 November, 2019

Cost: Free

Event Category: Book Club

Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/768186486970208/

Location: La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly—Montréal, Québec Phone: 514-279-2279 Venue WebsiteView map

Join our host Molie to discuss all things Harry Potter! All attendees must have read at least one book in the series. Pizza will be served. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone will be available at 20% from now until the meeting date.

This is a book club for young readers, with a median age of 10-12 or fifth, sixth and sec 1 grades. Younger kids are welcome if the book is appropriate, but not younger than 8-9, please. There will be a different book every meeting. The focus is to provide tweens a safe space to learn to discuss and express thoughts and ideas about literature among their peers without parents or teachers. Please note we do not have the space to have parents and kids!

ABOUT THE BOOK
Harry Potter has never even heard of Hogwarts when the letters start dropping on the doormat at number four, Privet Drive. Addressed in green ink on yellowish parchment with a purple seal, they are swiftly confiscated by his grisly aunt and uncle. Then, on Harry’s eleventh birthday, a great beetle-eyed giant of a man called Rubeus Hagrid bursts in with some astonishing news: Harry Potter is a wizard, and he has a place at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. An incredible adventure is about to begin!

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