Galileo - Online Social Book Club for Teens

Books can bring strangers together

Reading increases our ability to understand and express our own identity, while also providing ownership for our own perspective. As club members, you will establish connections to books together and gain a better insight into the world view of others. You will open the path to start new friendships.

Join our community

When you join a book club community you are dedicated to becoming a life long learner.

Make new Friends

One of the best ways to meet others is to find hobby you are passionate about. Passion for reading or even a passion for exploring a particular kind of book.

Reflect Together

Open conversations with world-class authors, entrepreneurs or artists to help you find and develop your superpowers.

Who will benefit from our Book Clubs?

Unschoolers and Homeschoolers

The connections with others will be priceless for someone who is unschooled or homeschooled. This is the best way to make friends with similar passions. They can be your friends for life.

Non Native English Speakers

If your first language is not English or your parents are non-native English speakers, you will benefit from building familiarity with extracting, summarizing, and discussing in English.

Teens Preparing for Exams

Reading will help preparation for any exam - reading a novel will benefit your vocabulary and reading A Wrinkle in Time, will strengthen your imagination.

Voracious Readers

The voracious reader will enhance their independent reading practices and develop and articulate both their critical and imaginative thinking.

The Best Way to Develop Your Soft Skills

They may be called “soft”, but they are remarkably powerful. With Galileo Book Club you can do so much more than merely enjoying your arguments about your favorite stories or sharing your favorite characters with like-minded people.

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Online Collaboration

This is not an ordinary book club. You will meet people from all over the world, participate in book-led debates, create reading projects together, and with the help of our teachers even you can start writing collaborative projects.

Complex Problem Solving

With books you can learn how to have the mental flexibility to think outside of the box, see the bigger picture, and reorder ideas to find a solution.

Public Speaking

Our weekly facilitated workshops are a great way to start practicing expression of your opinions and presenting them in a coherent and engaging way. You can express your personal opinion, while respectfully tolerating the viewpoint of others.

Improving your Language

Whether or not you are a native English speaker or not, this is a perfect way to improve your language, always guided by our teachers.

Creativity

Your future you will thank you for spending so much time reading and discovering ideas from so many different topics in today's world.

The Power of the Internet
at your Fingertips

We use Zoom, Slack and our proprietary software to offer you an outstanding experience. All of our meetings are online, interactive, and engaging. You will need a device connected to the internet and a good video camera- then you're all set.

Mix and Match

You can now make friends all over the world. Our Mix and Match weekly events will help you build friendships with people from different cultures with similar interest and passions.

Guided Weekly Class

To help you develop critical thinking, the teacher will guide you to reflect on what you have read. Together, we will explore different perspectives and relationships throughout the book.

The Grand Debate

Becoming a good public speaker does not always happen overnight, and while it may come easy for some students, it can be extremely difficult for others. Book debates are the best way to help you develop this skill.

Recommended Books

We will invite accomplished entrepreneurs, artists or heroes to share the books that changed their lives. And even more powerful, you can participate and ask questions in real time.

The Author of the Month

Every month we will present a new book to read. At the end of the month, we will meet the author of the book and discuss what you've read.

Discovering Science

Every week we invite a scientist to talk about the books that will make us love science. Of course this is real time and you can participate.

Event Name	Frequency	Type
Mix and Match - Find your international reading pals	Weekly	Meetup
Guided Weekly Class - Up to 10 People	Weekly	Class
The Author of the Month	Monthly	Lecture
Recommended Books - Special Guest	Twice a Month	Lecture
Discovering Science - Special Guest	Twice a Month	Lecture
The Grand Debate - Moderated	Monthly	Meetup
Moderated conversations on Slack	Daily	Chat/Text