Category: Recommended Reads

Reposted with permission from Martha Rombach: http://mrsrombachreads.edublogs.org/

Mrs. Rombach loves a little hoop action. Who doesn’t stare wide-eyed when a player swishes that silent, sinking, nothing-but-net ball?

Well, March Madness is in full gear–on and off the basketball court.  Fifth grade teacher Mark Jones, from Columbus, Ohio, started March Book Madness last year–and it’s spread across the globe in just 12 months. Wondering who besides Eagle Ridge’s awesome sixth graders might be participating? Click here to see Mr. Jones’s map.

In true March Madness fashion, it’s all about the brackets. Every week, we’ll be voting on which Middle Grade books to move forward. We’ll take part in crowning the champion! I’ve inserted the bracket so you can scout out the competition. Whether you’ve read the competing books or not, we need your vote! Scroll down to see my “collage players”. Then, beginning March 4, take the poll to determine which books move on. Come back every week–the competition is bound to heat up. This could be one for the history books (or the romance books, or the mystery books, or the dystopian books, or the adventure books, or the…you get the idea!). Now head to the library and practice your mad reading skills.

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Here are two book trailers to check out. Want to see more? You know your way to YouTube!

 

The Divergent trilogy, by Veronica Roth, is a series I just finished. I absolutely loved it! The storyline was fantastic and kept me excited for what was coming next the whole time, and the writing was great too. It was an awesome trilogy. For those of you who don’t know, it is about a girl named Beatrice, Tris for short, who lives in a city separated into factions, which are groups organized by what you think is most important. There is Abnegation, the selfless, Dauntless the brave, Amity the peaceful, Erudite the intelligent, and Candor the honest. When someone becomes 16, they take a test that shows which faction they should be in, but there are people that are called Divergent, people that belong in more than one faction who are said to threaten the faction system and are hunted down and killed. The day after they take the test, they choose their faction, and they are allowed to choose whatever they want. Tris comes from Abnegation, and she is Divergent. She chooses Dauntless as her faction and changes everything.

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