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• Every AR Test passed receives a ticket into the quarterly drawing for prizes
• Every AR test passed recieves a basketball
• If you reach goal (100 pts) in the 2nd quarter, you will receive an additional prize 

NEW AR INCENTIVES

• Every 10 points AR recieves a Scholastic bookmark (while supplies last)
• Every 25 points gets in the AR Prize box
• Every 100 points gets in the AR "Big" Prize box

Colorado Blue Spruce Book Award

2010 Winner

Vampire Academy Series—by Richelle Mead

  

HOUSE OF NIGHT SERIES—by P.C. Cast & Kristen Cast

 A thrilling, New York Times bestselling book series that follows 16-year-old Zoey Redbird as she is “Marked” by a vampyre tracker and begins to undergo the “Change” into an actual vampyre. She has to leave her family in Broken Arrow, OK, and move into the House of Night, a boarding school for other fledgling vampyres like her.

It’s tough to begin a new life, away from her parents and friends, and on top of that, Zoey finds she is no average fledgling. She has been Marked as special by the vampyre Goddess, Nyx. Although Zoey has awesome new powers, it’s hard to fit in when everyone knows you’re “special.” As Zoey tries to make new friends and maybe find a hot boyfriend (or two), she comes up against all kinds of evil, from the perfect-looking, super-popular girl with not-so-faultless plans, to the mysterious deaths happening at the House of Night and all over Tulsa. Things at the House of Night are not always what they seem. Can Zoey find the courage deep within herself to find the truth and embrace her destiny?

 http://www.houseofnightseries.com/pages/series.html

 1) Marked

2) Betrayed

3) Chosen

4) Untamed

5) Hunted

6) Tempted

 Shannon's Pick

Jodi Picoult's -- Nineteen Minutes

This book is based on the Columbine Shootings and other school shootings around the country.  

From JodiPicoult.com 

"Synopsis:

In this emotionally charged novel, Jodi Picoult delves beneath the surface of a small town to explore what it means to be different in our society.

In Sterling, New Hampshire, 17-year-old high school student Peter Houghton has endured years of verbal and physical abuse at the hands of classmates. His best friend, Josie Cormier, succumbed to peer pressure and now hangs out with the popular crowd that often instigates the harassment. One final incident of bullying sends Peter over the edge and leads him to commit an act of violence that forever changes the lives of Sterling’s residents.

Even those who were not inside the school that morning find their lives in an upheaval, including Alex Cormier. The superior court judge assigned to the Houghton case, Alex—whose daughter, Josie, witnessed the events that unfolded—must decide whether or not to step down. She’s torn between presiding over the biggest case of her career and knowing that doing so will cause an even wider chasm in her relationship with her emotionally fragile daughter. Josie, meanwhile, claims she can’t remember what happened in the last fatal minutes of Peter’s rampage. Or can she? And Peter’s parents, Lacy and Lewis Houghton, ceaselessly examine the past to see what they might have said or done to compel their son to such extremes. Nineteen Minutes also features the return of two of Jodi Picoult’s characters—defense attorney Jordan McAfee from The Pact and Salem Falls, and Patrick DuCharme, the intrepid detective introduced in Perfect Match.

Rich with psychological and social insight, Nineteen Minutes is a riveting, poignant, and thought-provoking novel that has at its center a haunting question. Do we ever really know someone? "

Shannon Says: "I think every middle and high school student and staff member needs to read this book.  It really makes a person think about the things they see and hear in our school every day... and how it affects the people involved."

 

Shannon Valora

Media Paraprofessional

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