The Bell Top Book Club, created in 2015, is a school-wide initiative to encourage reading among students. Each year, book club advisors Sarah Lussier and Tracy Cornell select a book for students and their families to read together over four weeks. Throughout the program students participate in daily trivia questions related to the book and conclude the club with a school wide “Vocabulary Parade”. Every child receives a book at no cost to families, thanks to the support of the PTO.
New this year, the Nightly Mystery Readers activity asks students to listen and guess who the mystery reader is.
2025 Bell Top Book Club Pick
About the Book (from the author’s website)
Once, in a house on Egypt Street, there lived a china rabbit named Edward Tulane. The rabbit was very pleased with himself, and for good reason: he was owned by a girl named Abilene, who treated him with the utmost care and adored him completely. And then, one day, he was lost.
Kate DiCamillo takes us on an extraordinary journey, from the depths of the ocean to the net of a fisherman, from the top of a garbage heap to the fireside of a hobos camp, from the bedside of an ailing child to the bustling streets of Memphis. And along the way, we are shown a true miracle: even a heart of the most breakable kind can learn to love, to lose, and to love again.
Nightly Mystery Reader Playlist
Bell Top Book Club Selections
2025 – “The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane” by Kate DiCamillo
2024 – “Breadcrumbs” by Anne Ursu
2023 – “Odder” by Katherine Applegate
2022 – “Where the Mountain Meets the Moon” by Grace Lin
2021 – “The Wild Robot” by Peter Brown
(BTBC Bedtime Stories During COVID Shutdown)
2019 – “Wish Tree” by Katherine Applegate
2018 – “Because of Winn-Dixie” by Kate DiCamillo
2017 – “The One and Only Ivan” by Katherine Applegate
2016 – “The Trumpet of the Swan” by E.B. White
2015 – “The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane” by Kate DiCamillo