Reading Challenge 25-26: Home

This year, WA is participating in the Reading Challenge from the Massachusetts Center for the Book. We are setting the goal of reading a book each month in a specific category.

How the challenge works:

1. Choose a book that fits the monthly challenge prompt (libraries, bookstores, and the Center for the Book website are great places to seek recommendations).
2. In the fall, see Ms. Biancolo in the library to get a sticker for each month you completed. Collect stickers and earn prizes for reading for 4, 8, and 12 months!
3. Want to recommend your book to others? Fill out a “Shelf Talker” card and write what you thought about it. Submit the cards to Ms. Biancolo.

Each month, fill out a short form on the Center for the Book website to tell them about the book and enter into a raffle. They will run drawings for prizes, and monthly participation determines eligibility.

If you want hard copies of the Reading Challenge Cards and Shelf Talkers, pick them up in the library.

Questions? Email Ms. Biancolo.

Have fun and Happy Reading!

These are suggestions--you do not have to take them!

• A Cricket in Times Square by George Selden
• A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
• A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle
• Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Montgomery
• Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary
• Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
• From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg
• Gooseberry Park by Cynthia Rylant
• How the García Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez
• Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
• Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
• Mandy by Julie Edwards
• Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
• Redwall by Brian Jacques
• Sabriel by Garth Nix
• Stuart Little by E.B. White
• The Thief by Megan Walen Turner
• The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner
• The Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
• The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
• The Grey King by Susan Cooper
• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
• The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
• The Skin I'm In by Sharon G. Flake
• The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
• The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
• Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
• When I Was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago

Center for the Book Reading Challenge Website

Student Reading Challenge Entry Form

These are suggestions--you do not have to take them!

• A Rover's Story by Jasmine Warga
• Birth of the Firebringer by Meredith Ann Pierce
• Bob by Wendy Mass and Rebecca Stead
• Bunnicula: A Rabbit-Tale of Mystery by Deborah Howe
• Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
• Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl
• Fox 8 by George Saunders
• I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore
• Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien
• Redwall by Brian Jacques
• The Eyes & the Impossible by Dave Eggers
• Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton
• Remote Control by Nnedi Okorafor
• The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward
• The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary
• The Remarkable Rescue at Milkweed Meadow by Elaine Dimopoulos
• The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo
• The Wild Robot by Peter Brown
• The Wonderling by Mira Bartok
• Warriors by Erin Hunter
• Watership Down by Richard Adams
• White Fang by Jack London
• Wings of Fire by Tui T. Sutherland

These are suggestions--you do not have to take them!

• Accidental Archaeologists: True Stories of Unexpected Discoveries by Sarah Albee
• All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys' Soccer Team by Christina Soontornvat
• Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart by Candace Fleming
• Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
• Free Lunch by Rex Ogle
• Hidden Figures (Young Reader's Edition) by Margot Lee Shetterly
• History Smashers: Plagues and Pandemics by Kate Messner
• I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World by Malala Yousafzai
• Insectorama: The Marvelous World of Insects by Lisa Voisard
• Stamped from the Beginning: A Graphic History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram Kendi
• The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer
• The Enigma Girls: How Ten Teenagers Broke Ciphers, Kept Secrets, and Helped Win World War II by Candace Fleming
• The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science by Joyce Sidman
• The Girl Who Sang: A Holocaust Memoir of Hope and Survival by Estelle Nadel and Sammy Savos with Bethany Strout
• The Mona Lisa Vanishes by Nicolas Day