Reading Raiders

Welcome to the Reading Raiders Blog

We meet every other Mon. Mornings in the media center for light refreshments and GREAT READS.
Come and join us @ 8:15:~)
Mrs. Cable, Mrs. Humphreys, Mrs. Larkin and Mrs. Inman

Winners of the Dickerson Book Award

Winners for the spring 11 Dickerson Book award were:

1st Place Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
2nd Place The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan

Share the Gift of Reading

The Reading Raiders are sponsoring Dickerson's 4th annual school wide book award.

The Reading Raiders thought that this would be a great way for students to share their favorite books and help inspire others to develop a love for reading.  Nominations will be posted on the bulletin boards in the media center  and throughout the school until the end of the January. We will choose the books with the most nominations or the most inspiring nominations for a final vote in May.

There will also be a drawing for prizes in May among the students who nominated one of the winning titles.  In order to qualify as a nomination for the Dickerson Book award the following rules apply:

1. Book has to have been written in the past 5 years
2. The book cannot be one of the past top 1^{st or}  2^nd  place winners from the last 3 years
3. Include a brief description of the book along with a couple of sentences about why you chose it to “share.”

 Students can write their nominations on the attached form

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Past winners from 2008
1^st place - Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows
2^nd place – Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment

Past Winners from 2009
1^st place – Twilight
2^nd place – Harry Potter &  the Half-Blood Prince

Past Winners from 2010
1^st place – Hunger Games
2^nd place – New Moon

Next meeting

Next meeting for the 6th grade Reading Raiders will be Dec. 6th for 6th grade.  By now everyone should have a copy of Killer Pizza.   I hope you are enjoying it.  See you next Mon.

8th graders are welcome to come on the 6th and work on your book reviews for the announcements.  Your next official meeting will be Monday, Dec. 13th.

7th graders are welcome at both/all meetings.

 

6th Grade Group - Nov. 15th

We would like to start a new book club group made up of only 6th graders.  If you are a 6th grader who loves to read, please join us in the media center for an informational meeting Nov. 15th, at 8:10. 

7th and 8th graders will meet as planned on Mon. the 8th, then on the 15th you can work on computers writing book reviews for the announcements! 

November Books

We are trying something new this month.  Since we were very split about which book to read next we decided we would devide.  Most of the girls are reading Missing Girl by Norma Fox Mazer and the guys are going for the fun book from the book fair Killer Pizza by Greg Taylor.  Yuke Y. will lead the discusstion for the girls and Austin T. will lead the discussion for the guys.  This should be fun. 

 

Thanks - to all the Reading Raiders who helped make the bookfair a success

Many of you helped us run the media center and/or the book fair which really helped things go smoothly in both places.  Many more of you helped by purchasing books or by spreading the word about which books were extra special.  We probably could have doubled our earnings if we could have gotten more copies of our most popular Hunger Games to sell.  I think emo wins the prize for most books purchased.  Thanks emo! I know he wins most books check-out!

 

 

Banned Book Week

The Reading Raiders have decided to pick a banned book for our next discussion and celebrate our right to read.  Please stop by and pick up a copy of Lois Duncan's Killing Mr. Griffin and see you next Monday. 

We may have to delay a week if Ms. Inman is selected for Jury Duty.

Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins

Students unanimously decided that Mockingjay would be the first book of the year to discuss.  This is the long awaited 3rd book in the Hunger Gamse trilogy.  There is a wonderful website with great discussion threads at the following address: Hogwarts Professor - Mockingjay.

We will finish the book discussion next week and film a book talk for announcements.

Winners of the 2009-2010 Dickerson Book Award

1st place with over 260 votes is Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

 

2nd place went to New Moon by Stephanie Meyer

 

 

 

 

The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan came in 3rd -

Books we read and recomend from 09-10

These are just a few of the great books we read last school year and highly recomend.

Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins (sequel to above)

Leepike Ridge by N. D. Wilson

Streams of Babel - Carol Plum-Ucci