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Field Trip Video - ACE Career Fair

South Carolina Book Award Club

Each year our media specialist, Mrs. Kelley, puts together a book club for third, fourth, and fifth graders (and any teacher who wants to join), based on the South Carolina Book Award Nominees for the year.

The expectation for members is that you read at least six of the twenty-one titles within a six week period (a book a week!). As she says...the club is not for wimps :)

While everyone had a good time and read a lot of books the above picture shows the ten students left standing at the end. We gave them a round of applause (as well as a pizza party and auction) for setting and reaching their reading goal in the club.

The South Carolina Book Award Nominees for 2009 are... (click on the comments to read some of the student/teacher reviews).

Attack of the Turtle by Drew Carlson

The Aurora County All-Stars by Deborah Wiles

Brendan Buckley’s Universe and Everything in It by Sundee Tucker Frazier

The Castle Corona by Sharon Creech

Dragon’s Egg by Sarah L. Thomson

Eleven by Patricia Reilly Giff

Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree by Lauren Tarshis

A Friendship for Today by Patricia McKissack

Lawn Boy by Gary Paulsen

Leepike Ridge by Nathan D. Wilson

The Lemonade War by Jacqueline Davies

Me and the Pumpkin Queen by Marlane Kennedy

The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart

The Mysterious Case of the Allbright Academy by Diane Stanley

No Talking by Andrew Clements

On the Wings of Heroes by Richard Peck

Paint the Wind by Pam Munoz Ryan

Rickshaw Girl by Mitali Perkins

Swindle by Gordon Korman

Two-Minute Drill by Mike Lupica