Ravenous Readers
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Reading Zone and Book Recommendations explanation:
Book Recommendation letter and example form
Book Recommendation Form (PDF file for printing)
Battle of the Books 2012
2011 Ravenous Awards Winners: Linden Cool, Nathan Clinger, and Kevin Hascher
Ravenous Readers Award: This award is given at the end of the year to one 6th grade student per homeroom who has read the most different genre over the year. Keep reading and exploring new genre!
HOT READS!What have you read lately?
Student Book Recommendations-CHECK THEM OUT!
Have you read The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins? I just LOVED it and am looking forward to reading the sequel Catching Fire and just out The Mocking Jay. Here’s a bit about it from visual bookshelf:
Katniss is a 16-year-old girl living with her mother and younger sister in the poorest district of Panem, the remains of what used be the United States. Long ago the districts waged war on the Capitol and were defeated. As part of the surrender terms, each district agreed to send one boy and one girl to appear in an annual televised event called, “The Hunger Games.” The terrain, rules, and level of audience participation may change but one thing is constant: kill or be killed. When Kat’s sister is chosen by lottery, Kat steps up to go in her place. (Science Fiction or Adventure genres)
Another great read that gets into dealing with differences and learning that who we are comes from the inside. Read the Visual Bookshelf summary:
Twelve-year-old Catherine just wants a normal life. Which is near impossible when you have a brother with autism and a family that revolves around his disability. She’s spent years trying to teach David the rules from “a peach is not a funny-looking apple” to “keep your pants on in public”—in order to head off David’s embarrassing behaviors.
But the summer Catherine meets Jason, a surprising, new sort-of friend, and Kristi, the next-door friend she’s always wished for, it’s her own shocking behavior that turns everything upside down and forces her to ask: What is normal? (Realistic genre)
