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For December, the LPUMC Book Club will read, The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street.

The Vanderbeeker children—Isa, Jessie, Oliver, Hyacinth, and Laney—should be dreaming about sugar plums and presents. But when Mr. Beiderman, their seriously unpleasant landlord and third-floor neighbor, says they need to leave their brownstone apartment by New Year’s, there are suddenly more pressing worries. The Vanderbeekers aren’t the kind of kids who will sit by sucking candy canes while some grouchy old man kicks them out of the home and Harlem neighborhood they love.

While their parents bring out the packing boxes and talk about moving to the suburbs, the kids know there must be another way—convincing their landlord to let them stay. The day of the move approaches, and packing boxes start crowding them out of the house. The kids know they need to put it
together for Operation Beiderman, and there’s nothing they won’t do to convince their grump of a landlord to like them. It’s an operation that has to succeed.

If you have questions about the Book Club, please contact Janice Hitchcock at 314-601-1799.