INSTRUCTIONS
Join us for a chance to enjoy reading and win prizes. How? Read the books and take the quiz! The books with the most entries will advance! (Quizzes have to score 70% or higher to be counted in the vote tally and for the raffle.)
Every quiz you take will place you in the raffle! Note: You can’t win for reading the same book twice.
Look over the slides and select a book! When you are done reading, take the quiz which is linked on the bracket. You can read more than one book to be entered more than once in the raffle!
Kim Faulkner�DLC at CCMS/FMS | | Valerie Hawthorne�AIG Facilitator CCMS/FMS |
2024
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90 Miles to Havana
Marcus Vega doesn’t Speak Spanish
Restart
Genesis Begins Again
The Running Dream
The Crossover
The Secret Battle of Evan Pao
Alone
The Maze Runner
Healer of the Water Monster
The Book Jumper
Class Act
Guts
The Bitter Side of Sweet
Flush
Home of the Brave
Hooray! You have finished reading a book.
Ready to the take the quiz?
Put this in PRESENT mode and click on the book. The link will take you to a Google Form.
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2024
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Round 2 - The Elite 8
Winners from Round 1:
Alexandria Asbury
Phemie Jacobsen
Pranav Kurra
Sofia Toler
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Game Schedule
Round 1 - Sweet Sixteen
You have a month to read as many of the sixteen books as you can! �Take the quiz for each book and get entered into the Round 1 Raffle. Books with the most quiz responses move on to the next round.
February 5th - March 4th
Round 2 - Elite Eight
You have three weeks to read any of the eight books. Take the quiz for each book and get entered into the Round 2 Raffle. Books with the most quiz responses move on to the next round. Names will only be added to the raffle each round, never removed. (unless you have won)
March 4th - March 22nd
Round 3 - Final Four�Here is another three weeks to read any of our final four!
March 22nd - April 15th
Round 4 �You will be able to advocate for one of the final books by sending in a written statement about why the book should win! The best written responses will win a treat. Email valeriehawthorne@fcschools.net with your claim and textual evidence!
April 15th - April 19th
2024
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In Africa, Kek lived with his mother, father, and brother. But only he and his mother have survived, and now she's missing. Kek is on his own.
As Kek awaits word of his mother's fate, he weathers the tough Minnesota winter by finding warmth in his few friendships, strength in his memories, and belief in his new country.
HOME OF THE BRAVE �by Katherine Applegate
When Julian's parents make the heartbreaking decision to send him and his two brothers away from Cuba to Miami via the Pedro Pan operation, the boys are thrust into a new world where bullies run rampant and it's not always clear how best to protect themselves.
90 Miles to Havana �by Enrique Flores-Galbis
Historical Fiction/Refugees
Round 1 Matchups
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"With a bolt of lightning on my kicks . . .The court is SIZZLING. My sweat is DRIZZLING. Stop all that quivering. Cuz tonight I’m delivering," announces dread-locked, 12-year old Josh Bell. He and his twin brother Jordan are awesome on the court. But Josh has more than basketball in his blood, he's got mad beats, too, that tell his family's story in verse, in this fast and furious middle grade novel of family and brotherhood.
The Crossover �by Kwame Alexander
Jessica thinks her life is over when she loses a leg in a car accident. She’s not comforted by the news that she’ll be able to walk with the help of a prosthetic leg. Who cares about walking when you live to run?
As she struggles to cope, Jessica feels that she’s both in the spotlight and invisible. P
The Running Dream�By: Wendelin Van Draanen
Realistic Fiction/Sports
Round 1 Matchups
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When twelve-year-old Maddie hatches a scheme for a secret sleepover with her two best friends, she ends up waking up to a nightmare. She’s alone—left behind in a town that has been mysteriously evacuated and abandoned.
With no one to rely on, no power, and no working phone lines or internet access, Maddie slowly learns to survive on her own.
Alone�by Megan E. Freeman
The Maze Runner �by James Dashner
Dystopian
When Thomas wakes up in the lift, the only thing he can remember is his name. He’s surrounded by strangers—boys whose memories are also gone.
Outside the towering stone walls that surround them is a limitless, ever-changing maze. It’s the only way out—and no one’s ever made it through alive.
Then a girl arrives. The first girl ever. And the message she delivers is terrifying:
Remember. Survive. Run.
Round 1 Matchups
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Amy Lennox doesn't know quite what to expect when she and her mother pick up and leave Germany for Scotland. Amy's grandmother, Lady Mairead, insists that Amy must read while she resides at Lennox House―but not in the usual way. It turns out that Amy is a book jumper, able to leap into a story and interact with the world inside. As thrilling as Amy's new power is, it also brings danger: someone is stealing from the books she visits, and that person may be after her life.
The Book Jumper
By Mechthild Gläser
Fantasy
When Nathan goes to visit his grandma, Nali, at her mobile summer home on the Navajo reservation, he knows he’s in for a pretty uneventful summer, with no electricity or cell service.
One night, while lost in the nearby desert, Nathan finds someone extraordinary: a Holy Being from the Navajo Creation Story—a Water Monster—in need of help.
Now Nathan must summon all his courage to save his new friend.
Healer of the Water Monster�By Brian Young
Round 1 Matchups
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After a fight at school leaves Marcus facing suspension, Marcus's mom decides it's time for a change. She takes Marcus to Puerto Rico to spend a week with relatives they have never met. But Marcus can't focus knowing that his father--who walked out of their lives ten years ago--is somewhere on the island.
Marcus Vega doesn’t Speak Spanish �by Pablo Cartaya
Chase's memory just went out the window. Chase doesn't remember falling off the roof. He doesn't remember hitting his head. He doesn't, in fact, remember anything. He wakes up in a hospital room and suddenly has to learn his whole life all over again . . . starting with his own name. He knows he's Chase. But who is Chase?
When he gets back to school, he sees that different kids have very different reactions to his return.
Restart�by Gordon Korman
Realistic Fiction
Round 1 Matchups
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Evan Pao’s family leaves California to Virginia, but moving to a town immersed in the past has its own price. Although Evan quickly makes friends, one boy, Brady Griggs, seems determined to make sure that as a Chinese American, Evan feels that he does not belong.
The Secret Battle of Evan Pao
By Wendy Wan-Long Shang
There are ninety-six things Genesis hates about herself. She knows the exact number because she keeps a list. Like #61: Because her family is always being put out of their house, belongings laid out on the sidewalk for the world to see. What’s not so regular is that this time they all don’t have a place to crash. But things aren’t all bad. Genesis actually likes her new school; she’s made a couple friends, her choir teacher says she has real talent, and she even encourages Genesis to join the talent show.
Genesis Begins Again �by Alicia D. Williams
Realistic Fiction/Accepting Yourself
Round 1 Matchups
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New York Times bestselling author Jerry Craft returns with a companion book to New Kid,
This time, it’s Jordan’s friend Drew who takes center stage in another laugh-out-loud funny, powerful, and important story about being one of the few kids of color in a prestigious private school.
Class Act
By Jerry Craft
Raina wakes up one night with a terrible upset stomach. Her mom has one, too, so it's probably just a bug. Raina eventually returns to school, where she's dealing with the usual highs and lows: friends, not-friends, and classmates who think the school year is just one long gross-out session. It soon becomes clear that Raina's tummy trouble isn't going away... and it coincides with her worries about food, school, and changing friendships.
Guts
By Raina Telgemeier
Graphic Novel
Round 1 Matchups
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Realistic Fiction/Advocacy
Fifteen-year-old Amadou counts the things that matter. For two years what has mattered are the number of cacao pods he and his younger brother, Seydou, can chop down in a day. The higher the number the safer they are. With no hope of escape, all they can do is try their best to stay alive—until Khadija comes into their lives.
She’s the first girl who’s ever come to camp, and she’s a wild thing. She fights bravely every day, attempting escape again and again, reminding Amadou what it means to be free.
The Bitter Side of Sweet
by Tara Sullivan
Noah's dad is sure that the owner of the Coral Queen casino boat is flushing raw sewage into the harbor–which has made taking a dip at the local beach like swimming in a toilet. He can't prove it though, and so he decides that sinking the boat will make an effective statement. Right. The boat is pumped out and back in business within days and Noah's dad is stuck in the clink.
Now Noah is determined to succeed where his dad failed. He will prove that the Coral Queen is dumping illegally . . . somehow.
Flush
by Carl Hiaasen
Round 1 Matchups
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