Resources

Book Clubs

Free kits for every book, and I will visit your club if I can.

Kits for kids and families Kits for adult clubs

A book club is the best thing that can happen to a book. Each kit below has a reading plan, discussion questions that people will argue about, and a letter from me. The kids' kits have games, quizzes, and snacks. The adult kits have a who's who, a map of the story, and a page on where the real history ends and the fiction begins. All free, no signup.

Readers 4 and up

Kits for kids and families

Cover of The Adventures of Pinky Whiskers and Sharp Nose

Read-aloud club · 12 pages

Reading Club Kit: The Adventures of Pinky Whiskers and Sharp Nose

Ages 4 to 8 as a read-aloud, about grades 2 to 4 to read alone.

One big read or a chapter a night for eleven nights. Icebreakers for little kids, a Which Mouse Are You? quiz, questions a grown-up can read straight to a five-year-old, six games (sniff test, twig boat, cheese tasting, mouse house, act it out, kindness challenge), snacks, 15 trivia questions, and a My Mouse Adventure drawing page.

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Cover of Sophia Sprite and the Sasquatch Secret

Ages 10 and up · 15 pages

Book Club Kit: Sophia Sprite and the Sasquatch Secret

“Sincere coming-of-age sees teen make room for grief and wonder.” BookLife Reviews

A one-meeting and a three-meeting plan, the Bigfoot Believer Scale and other icebreakers, a Which Clan Are You? quiz, questions for each stretch of the book, superlatives and a cast-the-movie vote, activities, snacks, a Bigfoot Sighting Report handout, 20 trivia questions, and a glossary of the Northborn world.

Chapter 1 of the audiobook is free to play at the first meeting.

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For adult clubs

Kits for adult clubs: the Sacred Vein trilogy

Start with Book One. Each kit assumes you have read the earlier books.

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Book One · 10 pages

The Sacred Vein

Historian Ammon Lundquist inherits his family's five-generation obsession with the Lost Rhoades Mine. The kit: a letter from me, a spoiler-free summary and a leaders' synopsis by part, a who's who, one- and two-meeting plans, 30 discussion questions, themes, what the novel draws on (the Lost Rhoades Mine, Carre-Shinob, the Uintas, the Ute people), a map of the story, and the Lundquist family line.

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Book Two · 10 pages

The Shadow Archive

The winter after the chamber, a hidden message in an ancestor's locket suggests Hathenbruck kept secrets even from his journals. The kit follows the same shape as Book One's, with new and returning characters marked, and a timeline of the trail Hathenbruck left.

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Club visits

Invite me

I do free 20 to 30 minute video visits with book clubs as my schedule allows, and I love doing them: fifteen minutes of your questions beats any talk I could prepare. Email hello@brianyoungauthor.com with your meeting date, the book, and roughly how many people. Send a photo of your club afterward and it goes on my fridge.

Request a club visit

After the meeting

A small favor

If your club liked a book, a short review on Amazon or Goodreads helps other readers find it. A couple of honest sentences is all it takes. Every book is on my Amazon author page.

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Contact

Questions about a kit, a visit, or a book? Email me. I read every message.