GOOD BOOKS TO READ
Have Book - Will Read
With all of these great books, how will I ever have
time to finish. Well, I suggest we start today!
What is our goal?
• Improve our comprehension
• Increase our vocabulary
• Increase our knowledge of literature
• Develop a love of reading and knowledge
of books and authors
• Read 25 books or more this year
Can you name a good book you
have read this year?
Have you recommended a good
book to a friend?
Have you read a good book
recommended to you?
Coming Up October 14-20
Scavenger
Hunt Guest
Readers
Special
Favorite Book
Survey Reading Day
What is the FMS READING BOWL
TEAM ?
For FMS students who read, read, read!!!!
What does the Reading Bowl Team do?
Georgia Children’s Book
Award Nominees 2007-2008
Bella At Midnight
by Diane Stanley
Bella's peasant life is
changed when her real
father, a knight who
abandoned her when she was
a baby, comes and reclaims
her, moving her to his home
where she lives with a
resentful stepmother and two
horrible stepsisters and
learns about a plot to kill her
friend, Prince Julian.
Book of Story Beginnings
by Kristin Kladstrup
After moving with her
parents to Iowa, twelve-
year-old Lucy discovers a
mysterious notebook that
can bring stories to life
and which has a link to the
1914 disappearance of her
great uncle.
Bronx Masquerade
by Nikki Grimes
While studying the Harlem
Renaissance, students at a
Bronx high school read aloud
poems they've written,
revealing their innermost
thoughts and fears to their
formerly clueless classmates.
City of Ember
by Jeanne DuPrau
In the city of Ember, twelve-year-
old Lina trades jobs on Assignment
Day to be a Messenger to run to
new places in her decaying but
beloved city, perhaps even to
glimpse Unknown Regions.
Crossing the Wire
by Will Hobbs
Fifteen-year-old Victor Flores
journeys north in a desperate attempt
to cross the Arizona border and find
work in the United States to support
his family in central Mexico. .
Deliver Us From Normal
by Kate Klise
On the title page, the words
"Welcome to" are crossed out.
With a mother who buys
Christmas cards in August and a
younger brother who describes
the Trinity as a toasted
marshmallow on a graham
cracker, life for eleven-year-old
Charles Harrisong is anything
but normal in Normal, Illinois.
Earth Dragon Awakes: The San
Francisco Earthquake of 1906
by Laurence Yep
Eight-year-old Henry and nine-
year-old Chin love to read about
heroes in popular "penny
dreadful" novels, until they both
witness real courage while trying
to survive the 1906 San Francisco
earthquake.
Fairies of Nutfolk Wood
by Barb Ullman
After her parents divorce and she
moves to the country with her
mother, fourth-grader Willa Jane,
anxious and unhappy with the
changes in her life, discovers a
world of little people called Nutfolk
living in the woods around her new
home.
Flush
by Carl Hiaasen
Noah and his sister, Abbey, are
more understanding of their
volatile dad's latest arrest than their
mother, who begins talking of
divorce. Dad sank the Coral
Queen, a casino boat on a Florida
Key because, he alleges, its owner,
Dusty Muleman, has been illegally
dumping raw sewage into the local
waters.
Georgie’s Moon
by Chris Woodworth
With a chip on her shoulder and a
talent for disruption, seventh-grader
Georgie Collins moves with her
mom to a small Indiana town,
where they await the return of
Georgie’s father from Vietnam.
Gossamer
by Lois Lowry
While learning to bestow dreams, a
young dream giver tries to save an
eight-year-old boy from the effects
of both his abusive past and the
nightmares inflicted on him by the
frightening Sinisteeds.
Hero Revealed
by William Boniface
Ordinary Boy, the only
resident of Superopolis
without a superpower,
uncovers and foils a sinister
plot to destroy the town.
Isabella’s Above-Ground Pool
by Alice Mead
Nine-year-old Isabella doesn't like
to share, until a tornado destroys a
neighbor's house and she realizes
that the money she has earned to
buy a swimming pool might be
put to a better use.
Macaroni Boy
by Katherine Ayres
In Pittsburgh in 1933, sixth-
grader Mike Costa notices a
connection between several
strange occurrences, but the only
way he can find out the truth
about what's happening is to be
nice to the class bully. Includes
historical facts.
Misadventures of Maude March
Or Trouble Rides a Fast Horse
by Audrey Couloumbis
After the death of the stern aunt
who raised them since they
were orphaned, eleven-year-old
Sallie and her fifteen-year-old
sister escape their self-serving
guardians and begin an
adventure resembling those in
the dime novels Sallie loves to
read.
Misfits
by James Howe
Four students who do not fit in at
their small-town middle school
decide to create a third party for the
student council elections to
represent all students who have ever
been called names.
Report Card
by Andrew Clements
Fifth-grader Nora Rowley has
always hidden the fact that she is a
genius from everyone because all
she wants is to be normal, but when
she comes up with a plan to prove
that grades are not important, things
begin to get out of control.
Sand Dollar Summer
by Kimberly Jones
When twelve-year-old Lise spends
the summer on an island in Maine
with her self-reliant mother and
bright--but oddly mute--younger
brother, her formerly safe world is
complicated by an aged Indian
neighbor, her mother's childhood
friend, and a hurricane.
Sheep
by Valerie Hobbs
After a fire destroys the farm
where he was born, a young
border collie acquires a series of
owners and learns about life as
he seeks a home and longs to
fulfill his life's purpose of
shepherding sheep.
Wall and the Wing
by Laura Ruby
In a future New York where
most people can fly and cats are
a rarity, a nondescript resident
of Hope House for the
Homeless and Hopeless
discovers that although she is
shunned as a "leadfoot," she has
the surprising ability to become
invisible.