Fourth-Grade Book Club: Special Guest Maryann Macdonald, Author of Odette’s Secrets

This edition of the Fourth-Grade Book Club is open to children grades 3 and up! The special guest will be Maryann Macdonald, author of the novel Odette’s Secrets. The novel, based on a real-life story, focuses on Odette Meyer, a young Jewish girl, who is sent away to the countryside from Nazi-occupied Paris. There she is forced to hide the secrets of who she really is, even going to Catholic Mass with other children. When she eventually returns to Paris, she has to deal with whether she has changed too much to pick up the life she once had.

Registration is requested by calling the Library at (914) 738-1234. Book club books are usually available at the circulation desk for immediate checkout.