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Winter Reading Challenge: Get Cozy With Good Books

Your Name: ________________

• Read 5 books or 1,005 pages or 15 hours between December 1 and
Valentine’s Day, February 14, 2011.

• Record the books (new to you) or pages or hours below.

• Your name will go into a drawing for a Powell’s gift card.

Author Title # pages

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3) ______________________________________________________________________
4) ______________________________________________________________________
5) ______________________________________________________________________

# of hours _____

Parent’s signature ________________________________

Week of 11/29/10

The Elements: A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe
Theodore Gray
Photographs by Theodore Gray and Nick Mann
546 GRA (in the MSL)

Beautiful and informative, surprising and smart, The Elements will appeal to your inner geek (even if you didn't know you had one). With unique stories, bizarre facts, and dazzling photographs of the 118 elements in the periodic table, this book will charm and delight anyone interested in science.
Recommended by Tessa, Powells.com

(We also purchased The Photographic Card Deck of The Elements: With Big Beautiful Photographs of All 118 Elements in the Periodic Table.)

Gimme A Call by Sarah Mlynowski
FIC MLY

We sold multiple copies of Gimme A Call to students at the OES Book Fair last week, so I figured that I had better get a copy for the MSL, too.

After accidentally dropping her cell phone into a fountain at the mall, fourteen-year-old Devi Banks starts to get phone calls--and an earful of advice on how to live her life to avoid making disastrous choices--from her seventeen-year-old self. (NoveList)

Greek Myths retold by Ann Turnbull
292.1 TUR
(purchased for the MSL by the Layendecker Family)

A gorgeous collection of classic Greek myths welcomes readers of all ages into a legendary world of beauty, tragedy, and miracle.

Enter a world where anything is possible. A god might be a mountain or a shower of gold. A nymph may be a stream or an echo in the wind. The myths of ancient Greece are full of such wonders, as well as a host of courageous heroes, cunning heroine. (GoodReads)

Hero by Mike Lupica
FIC LUP

Mike Lupica's sports novels have been popular for the past few years in the MSL. This novel, Hero, is a departure from his usual topics -- baseball, football, soccer -- but it should still be a big hit!

Fourteen-year-old Zach learns he has the same special abilities as his father, who was the President's globe-trotting troubleshooter until "the Bads" killed him, and now Zach must decide whether to use his powers in the same way at the risk of his own life. (NoveList)

Week of 11/8/10

Ancient, Strange, and Lovely
Susan Fletcher
FIC FLE

Fourteen-year-old Bryn must try to find a way to save a baby dragon from a dangerous modern world that seems to have no place for something so ancient. (NoveList)


Dash and Lily's Book of Dares
Rachel Cohn & David Levithan

FIC COH Told in the alternating voices of Dash and Lily, two sixteen-year-olds carry on a wintry scavenger hunt at Christmas-time in New York, neither knowing quite what--or who--they will find. (NoveList)