After school programs are commonplace across the country and can be an extension of the learning commons program after school hours. This book is chock full of ideas and directions for activities that connect to various books. The idea is to share a book and then do an activity in ways that will not only extend ideas but attract readers to the book. We sample a number of the ideas from various topical areas, both fiction and nonfiction for the elementary school age and found them to require a fair amount of preplanning to have the various ingredients, spaces, and a clear set of strategies required to carry them out. You have to love messes to use the ideas here and Shaia is obviously a master at it. As with all idea books, we buy them to stimulate our thinking when we run out of ideas of our own. The book is laid out by topic and weekly visits by children to the club. Topics include mysteries, adventures, school, chillers, boys only, art, and humor among others. We would rather a bit more emphasis on solid makerspace challenges rather than the more traditional activity, but get ready for the messy fun here. Recommended for the adventuresome lover of books linked to engagement.