GOT BOOKS? Season 3
Kenosha Unified Middle School Reading Challenge
The Winners are.....
- 1. Life As We Knew It - 1,350 votes ** This title was suggested by Got Books? Season 2 participants!
- 2. Rules - 733 votes
- 3. Dead End in Norvelt - 517 votes
Many copies of each title will be arriving in your school library before Winter Break. You may also find copies at the public library or bookstore.
Although these weren't the winners, a few copies of each of the following books will be ordered for each library too:
- Amelia Lost: the Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart - 296 votes
- Bluefish- 126 votes
- Juggling for the Complete Klutz - 91 votes
What is the Got Books? Challenge
Try it this year! Read any two of these titles and join two Book Discussions (either online or in person). Then, you will be invited to an assembly with a reading juggler in mid-April.
Questions? Stop by your school library and talk with your library media teacher or email Diane Kastelic dkasteli@kusd.edu with any questions.
1. Life As We Knew It by Pfeffer
Through journal entries sixteen-year-old Miranda describes her family's struggle to survive after a meteor hits the moon, causing worldwide tsunamis, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions. o hide the fact that he cannot read, but a persistent teacher and a special girl open his eyes to a new world.
2. Rules
Frustrated at life with an autistic brother, twelve-year-old Catherine longs for a normal existence but her world is further complicated by a friendship with an young paraplegic.
3. Dead End in Norvelt by Gantos
In the historic town of Norvelt, Pennsylvania, twelve-year-old Jack Gantos spends the summer of 1962 grounded for various offenses until he is assigned to help an elderly neighbor with a most unusual chore involving the newly dead, molten wax, twisted promises, Girl Scout cookies, underage driving, lessons from history, typewriting, and countless bloody noses.
4. Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart
Traces the life of female aviator Amelia Earhart from her childhood to her final flight, discusses the extensive search for her and her missing plane, and includes photographs, maps, handwritten notes by Amelia, and sidebars.
5. Bluefish
Thirteen-year-old Travis, living in cramped quarters with his alcoholic grandfather, longs for his old life in the country, and struggles in school to hide the fact that he cannot read, but a persistent teacher and a special girl open his eyes to a new world.
6. Juggling for the Complete Klutz by Cassidy
These are the world's most user-tested juggling directions, taking readers from the absolute beginning (Step One: The Drop) all the way to Five-Object Juggling.
Teacher Resources Are Available
Contact your Library Media Specialist for the Participation Guidelines, book discussion guides, and information about the culminating event on April 17 or 18.