Mrs. Trimble's Summer Reading Challenge
Happy Reading!!
Step out of your comfort zone.
Challenge yourself to read something different.
Discover some amazing award-winning books!
Challenge yourself to read something different.
Discover some amazing award-winning books!
Turn in your Summer Reading Challenge Guide to Mrs. Trimble on the first day of school (August 13th) and receive a small incentive prize just for participating! ALSO, each participant will be entered into a raffle for many great prizes including $25 gift cards to Game Stop, Half Price Books and iTunes. You'll earn 1 raffle ticket for every 200 pages read.
Rules
- Print out the Summer Reading Challenge Guide
- Read at least 5 of the 8 selected books (roughly 8 to 21 pages per day for each of the 81 days of summer*).
- Have parent/guardian sign & date the Summer Reading Challenge Guide and return to Mrs. Trimble on the first day of school.
- Returned sheets enter student into raffle. Every 200 pages read = 1 raffle ticket. For example if you read the five books with the lowest number of pages you'll receive 3 raffle tickets (665 pages / 200); if you read all eight books you'll receive 8 raffle tickets (1,673 pages / 200).
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One of the 2014 Top Ten Best Fiction for Young Adults.
"Nate Foster has big dreams. His whole life, he’s wanted to star in a Broadway show. (Heck, he'd settle for *seeing* a Broadway show.) But how is Nate supposed to make his dreams come true when he’s stuck in Jankburg, Pennsylvania, where no one (except his best pal Libby) appreciates a good show tune? With Libby’s help, Nate plans a daring overnight escape to New York. There's an open casting call for E.T.: The Musical, and Nate knows this could be the difference between small-town blues and big-time stardom." (Goodreads.com) Fiction 288 Pages Middle Grade Level AR Book Level 5.9 |
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2014 Schneider Family Book Award winner for middle school.
"Thirteen-year-old Princess Matilda, whose lame foot brings fear of the evil eye, has never given much thought to dragons, attending instead to her endless duties and wishing herself free of a princess's responsibilities. When a greedy cousin steals Tilda's lands, the young princess goes on the run with two would-be dragon slayers. Before long she is facing down the Wild Hunt, befriending magical horses, and battling flame-spouting dragons. On the adventure of a lifetime, and caught between dreams of freedom and the people who need her, Tilda learns more about dragons—and herself—than she ever imagined."(Goodreads.com) Adventure Fiction 336 Pages Middle Grade Level AR Book Level Unknown |
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Winner of the 2014 John Steptoe Award for New Talent.
"On a hot day at the end of summer in 1973 Cindy Campbell threw a back-to-school party at a park in the South Bronx. Her brother, Clive Campbell, spun the records. He had a new way of playing the music to make the breaks—the musical interludes between verses—longer for dancing. He called himself DJ Kool Herc and this is When the Beat Was Born. From his childhood in Jamaica to his youth in the Bronx, here's how Kool Herc came to be a DJ, how kids in gangs stopped fighting in order to breakdance, and how the music he invented went on to define a culture and transform the world." (Goodreads.com) Nonfiction / Picture Book Biography 32 pages Lower Grade Level AR Book Level 4.2 |
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2014 Winner of the Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal.
Parrots Over Puerto Rico "This illustrated book provides a combined history of the Puerto Rican parrot and the island of Puerto Rico, highlighting current efforts to save the Puerto Rican parrot by protecting and managing this endangered species. The coauthor is Cindy Trumbore." (arbookfind.com) Nonfiction 48 pages Lower Grade Level AR Book Level 5.7 |
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Just one of the 2014 Buckeye Children's Book Award nominees for grades 6-8. Read them all and vote for your favorite starting September 1, 2014.
"Twelve-year-old genius and outsider Willow Chance must figure out how to connect with other people and find a surrogate family for herself after her parents are killed in a car accident." (arbookfind.com) Realistic Fiction 384 pages Middle Grade Level AR Book Level 5.6 |
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2014 Newbery Award winner. "Self-described cynic Flora Belle Buckman is not easily surprised but finding a flying, poetry-writing, superhero squirrel and meeting 'profoundly strange' William Spiver puts a whole new spin on her life."(arbookfind.com) Fiction 233 pages Middle Grade Level AR Book Level 4.3 |
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2014 Scott O'Dell Award winner for historical fiction.
"It is the 1920s, and Bo, headed for an Alaska orphanage, wins the hearts of two tough gold miners set out to raise her, enthusiastically helped by all the kind people of the nearby Eskimo village." (arbookfind.com) Historical Fiction 288 pages Middle Grade Level AR Book Level 5.2 |
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"It is the summer of 1869, and trains, crews, and family are traveling together, riding America's brand-new transcontinental railroad. These pages come alive with the details of the trip and the sounds, speed, and strength of the mighty locomotives; the work that keeps them moving; and the thrill of travel from plains to mountain to ocean.
Come hear the hiss of the steam, feel the heat of the engine, watch the landscape race by. Come ride the rails, come cross the young country!" (Goodreads.com) Nonfiction
64 pages Lower Grade Level AR Book Level 4.7 |
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