The Doomsday Club International Lit Review (RLR 520)
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Kevin Moran’s The Doomsday Club is an exciting, yet heartwarming novel centered around themes of friendship and the coming of age growing pains. Written, published, and set in Ireland, the story is filled with Irish slang, folklore, and culture. It was shortlisted for the KPMG Children's Books Ireland Awards 2026, Great Reads Award 2025/2026, and the Post Irish Book Awards 2025. It also won Mr. Ripley's Enchanted Books Children's Book Cover Competition 2024/2025.The main characters, Jack, Conan, Yash, and Jerry, are twelve year old classmates whose detention takes an eerie turn when they begin to see monsters. Like a supernatural Breakfast Club, the group begin to use their detentions to investigate the creatures they encounter. This novel is a classic chapter book, but each chapter follows a different character in the story. This is very engaging and helps the reader better understand the background and point of view of each …
Kevin Moran’s The Doomsday Club is an exciting, yet heartwarming novel centered around themes of friendship and the coming of age growing pains. Written, published, and set in Ireland, the story is filled with Irish slang, folklore, and culture. It was shortlisted for the KPMG Children's Books Ireland Awards 2026, Great Reads Award 2025/2026, and the Post Irish Book Awards 2025. It also won Mr. Ripley's Enchanted Books Children's Book Cover Competition 2024/2025.The main characters, Jack, Conan, Yash, and Jerry, are twelve year old classmates whose detention takes an eerie turn when they begin to see monsters. Like a supernatural Breakfast Club, the group begin to use their detentions to investigate the creatures they encounter. This novel is a classic chapter book, but each chapter follows a different character in the story. This is very engaging and helps the reader better understand the background and point of view of each character. When considering The Doomsday Club as an international book, there are ways in which it is a mirror for children in many different countries while also celebrating the elements that offer a peek into the window of Irish culture. Navigating friendships and school as a preteen is a nearly a universal experience. Students can see themselves in these characters who are (with the exception of fighting monsters) facing a lot of the same challenges. Children not from Ireland get to, however, also enjoy looking through the window at how a child in Ireland may have a different perspective and experience than their home country. For example, the novel is rich in Irish folklore and includes words of the Irish Gaelic language. I would recommend this book to readers in fourth through eighth grade. If I were to teach this book, I would absolutely use it in a literacy lesson about identifying and understanding different conflicts within a story. This book has multiple conflicts and has great examples of person-against-self, person-against-person, and even themes of person-against-society.