**The beloved** New York Times **bestselling author of the modern classic** Frindle **celebrates books and the joy of reading with a new school story to love!** Sixth grader Alec can’t put a good book down. So when Principal Vance lays down the law—pay attention in class, or *else* —Alec takes action. He can’t lose all his reading time, so he starts a club. A club he *intends* to be the only member of. After all, reading isn’t a team sport, and no one would want to join something called the Losers Club, right? But as more and more kids find their way to Alec’s club—including his ex-friend turned bully *and* the girl Alec is maybe starting to like—Alec notices something. Real life might be messier than his favorite books, but it’s *just* as interesting. With *The Losers Club,* Andrew Clements brings us a new school story that’s a love letter to books and to reading and that reminds us that sometimes the best stories are the ones that happen off the page—our own! **Winner of the Rhode Island Children’s Book Award (2019) Winner of the International Reading Association and Children’s Book Council: Children’s Choices List (2018) ** **Winner of the Garden State Children’s Book Award (2020) 2021 Grand Canyon Reader Award Nominee A Kansas William White Master List Selection (2018 & 2019) An Arkansas Charlie May Simon Children’s Book Award Nominee (2019) A California Young Reader Medal Nominee (2019) A Nebraska Golden Sower Award Nominee (2019) A Virginia Young Readers Program Award Nominee (2019) A Minnesota Maud Heart Lovelace Award Nominee (2019) A Missouri Mark Twain Award Nominee (2019) An Oregon Reader’s Choice Award Nominee (2019)** **Praise for** The Losers Club **! ** * Clements’s latest is engaging and funny. A laugh-out-loud first purchase for all middle grade collections, and a solid read-aloud choice for classrooms. **—** School Library Journal **, Starred Review** Clements is out to celebrate reading in all its obsessiveness, and…tosses in shout-outs to a passel of other writers. [The Losers Club] gives fried bookworms everywhere the satisfaction of knowing that friends may desert them (if only temporarily) but books never will. —The New York Times **Praise for Andrew Clements!** “Clements is a genius.” — *The New York Times* “We have never read an Andrew Clements book that we haven’t loved.” — *The Washington Post*