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Challenge For YOU!

June 16, 2008 at 6:08 pm | In Book Chat, Book Thoughts, Student Activities |
Tags: book lists, challenges, NBLU, summer, summer reading

You probably heard about this first, from Mr. Largen, in one of his weekly phone call updates.  But here’s the more specific information that you need for the SUMMER READING CHALLENGE.

So… if you haven’t become motivated to start the summer reading program, No Book Left Unread, and you haven’t dived into all those great books on the reading lists that we sent home in May, join me in this challenge. 

You can join the Summer Reading Challenge by making a list of the books you want to read.  Why don’t you make the list and send me a copy at my blog or Schoolnotes email?    It doesn’t matter how many books or how many pages … just so you make a list and “stick to” reading the books on your list.  Keep up with the book titles and the number of pages (for our participation in NBLU)  You can email me here everytime you complete a book on your list.  Here is my reading list…

1. Elijah of Buxton by Paul Christopher Curtis
2. Dexter the Tough by Margaret Peterson Haddix
3. Jack Plank by Natalie Babbitt
4. Roxie and the Hooligans by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
5. The Big One-Oh by Dean Pitchford
6. Room One: A Mystery or Two by Andrew Clements
7. The Winner’s Walk by Nancy Ruth Patterson
8. The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt.

In case anyone wants to use the reading calendar, here is the link for June and July .  I’ll post the August calendar later. Yes, a “STAR Buck” for every five activities you record and share with me in August!

I’ve been checking out the bookstores this summer and found some of the new titles being released this summer that are from some of your favorite series.  You may not be able to wait until August - but be assured they will be available when you get back to school in the fall.  Ha!  Betcha can’t wait for school to start back now!  Happy summer reading!

• The Time Paradox (Artemis Fowl Book 6 - Released July 15)
• Warriors: Cats of the Clan (Released June 24)
• The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 4 - Now Available)
• Raven Rise (Pendragon - Now Available)
• Queste (Septimus Heap, Book 4 - Now Available)
• The Quest Begins (Seekers Series Book 1 - a new series by Erin Hunter - now available)