Mrs. Trimble's 2018 Summer Reading Challenge
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Step out of your comfort zone!
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Challenge yourself to read something different!
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Discover some amazing award-winning books!
Turn in your Summer Reading Challenge Guide to Mrs. Trimble on the first day of school (August 16th) 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. Participants earn ONE raffle ticket for every 200 pages read!
Rules
- Print out the Summer Reading Challenge Guide (or get one in the CFI).
- 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 four books with the lowest number of pages you'll receive 1 raffle tickets (216 pages / 200); if you read all eight books you'll receive 7 raffle tickets (*1,371 pages / 200 rounded up).
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2018 Newbery Medal Winner
School Library Journal Best Books: 2017 "In one day, four lives weave together in unexpected ways. Virgil Salinas is shy and kindhearted and feels out of place in his loud and boisterous family. Valencia Somerset, who is deaf, is smart, brave, and secretly lonely, and loves everything about nature. Kaori Tanaka is a self-proclaimed psychic, whose little sister Gen is always following her around. And Chet Bullens wishes the weird kids would just act normal so that he can concentrate on basketball. They aren’t friends -- at least not until Chet pulls a prank that traps Virgil and his pet guinea pig at the bottom of a well. This disaster leads Kaori, Gen, and Valencia on an epic quest to find the missing Virgil. Through luck, smarts, bravery, and a little help from the universe, a rescue is performed, a bully is put in his place, and friendship blooms." (Goodreads) Fiction 311 Pages Middle Grade Level AR Book Level 4.7 |
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2018 Pura Belpre Award for Author
"Ruthie Mizrahi and her family recently emigrated from Castro's Cuba to New York City. Just when she's finally beginning to gain confidence in her mastery of English and enjoying her reign as her neighborhood's hopscotch queen, a horrific car accident leaves her in a body cast and confined her to her bed for a long recovery. As Ruthie's world shrinks because of her inability to move, her powers of observation and her heart grow larger. She comes to understand how fragile life is, how vulnerable we all are as human beings, and how friends, neighbors, and the power of the arts can sweeten even the worst of times." (Goodreads) Realistic Fiction 236 Pages Middle Grade Level AR Book Level 4.2 |
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Winner of the 2018 John Steptoe Award for New Talent.
"It's Christmas Eve in Harlem, but twelve-year-old Lolly Rachpaul and his mom aren't celebrating. They're still reeling from his older brother's death in a gang-related shooting just a few months earlier. Then Lolly's mother's girlfriend brings him a gift that will change everything: two enormous bags filled with Legos. Lolly's always loved Legos, and he prides himself on following the kit instructions exactly. Now, faced with a pile of building blocks and no instructions, Lolly must find his own way forward. His path isn't clear--and the pressure to join a "crew," as his brother did, is always there. When Lolly and his friend are beaten up and robbed, joining a crew almost seems like the safe choice. But building a fantastical Lego city at the community center provides Lolly with an escape--and an unexpected bridge back to the world." (Goodreads.com) Realistic Fiction 304 pages Middle Grade Level AR Book Level 4.4 |
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2018 Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Honor Award.
2018 Randolph Caldecott Medal Honor Book "Rivers wind through earth, cutting down and eroding the soil for millions of years, creating a cavity in the ground 277 miles long, 18 miles wide, and more than a mile deep known as the Grand Canyon. Home to an astonishing variety of plants and animals that have lived and evolved within its walls for millennia, the Grand Canyon is much more than just a hole in the ground. Follow a father and daughter as they make their way through the cavernous wonder, discovering life both present and past. Weave in and out of time as perfectly placed die cuts show you that a fossil today was a creature much long ago, perhaps in a completely different environment. Complete with a spectacular double gatefold, an intricate map and extensive back matter.." (Goodreads.com) Nonfiction 56 pages Middle Grade Level AR Book Level 6.9 |
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2018 Schneider Family Book Award for Young Children
"James Castle was born two months premature on September 25, 1899, on a farm in Garden Valley, Idaho. He was deaf, mute, autistic, and probably dyslexic. He didn't walk until he was four; he would never learn to speak, write, read, or use sign language. Yet, today Castle's artwork hangs in major museums throughout the world. The Philadelphia Museum of Art opened "James Castle: A Retrospective" in 2008. The 2013 Venice Biennale included eleven works by Castle in the feature exhibition "The Encyclopedic Palace." And his reputation continues to grow. Caldecott Medal winner Allen Say, author of the acclaimed memoir Drawing from Memory, takes readers through an imagined look at Castle's childhood, allows them to experience his emergence as an artist despite the overwhelming difficulties he faced, and ultimately reveals the triumphs that he would go on to achieve." (Goodreads.com) Nonfiction 64 pages Lower Grade Level AR Book Level 4.6 |
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2018 Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Honor Award.
"In Elkhorn Slough, an inlet on the California coast, seagrass grows healthy and strong in the shallow water. This healthy seagrass baffled marine biologist Brent Hughes. The scientist expected this estuary to be overrun with algae, causing the seagrass to die. Why was the seagrass thriving? As Brent investigated, signs pointed to an unexpected player helping to keep the seagrass healthy: sea otters! What do these top predators have to do with an aquatic grass at the opposite end of the food chain? Brent's amazing discovery gave scientists insight into the delicate balance of ecosystems. Follow science in action as Brent conducts the research that led to this major discovery." (Goodreads.com) Nonfiction 56 pages Middle Grade Level AR Book Level 6.9 |
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2018 Scott O'Dell Award winner for historical fiction.
"Twelve-year-old Crow has lived her entire life on a tiny, isolated piece of the starkly beautiful Elizabeth Islands in Massachusetts. Abandoned and set adrift on a small boat when she was just hours old, Crow's only companions are Osh, the man who rescued and raised her, and Miss Maggie, their fierce and affectionate neighbor across the sandbar. Crow has always been curious about the world around her, but it isn't until the night a mysterious fire appears across the water that the unspoken question of her own history forms in her heart. Soon, an unstoppable chain of events is triggered, leading Crow down a path of discovery and danger. Vivid and heart wrenching, Lauren Wolk's Beyond the Bright Seais a gorgeously crafted and tensely paced tale that explores questions of identity, belonging, and the true meaning of family." (Goodreads.com) Historical Fiction 304 pages Middle Grade Level AR Book Level 4.8 |
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"Shane Burcaw was born with a rare disease called spinal muscular atrophy, which hinders his muscles' growth. As a result, his body hasn't grown bigger and stronger as he's gotten older--it's gotten smaller and weaker instead. This hasn't stopped him from doing the things he enjoys (like eating pizza and playing sports and video games) with the people he loves, but it does mean that he routinely relies on his friends and family for help with everything from brushing his teeth to rolling over in bed." (Goodreads.com)
Nonfiction
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