You have until Friday, August 26 to submit your posts! If you just have one or two books left to finish the series you've been gobbling up all summer, find a cool spot and go for it! If you had a book you were supposed to read for school and you've been putting it off, now's the time. (You might even like it!)
And hey, it’s looking pretty close between the sixth and seventh graders for the trophy. Gather your friends, have a reading and posting marathon! Eighth graders—you need to have a BIG reading and posting party, but you can still surprise us all!
If you want to read for this week's challenge, your parents were around your age probably in the 1980s or 1990s. You don’t have a lot of time for this last challenge, so here are a few books you should be able to get through pretty quickly. They’re all under 200 pages. Some are totally fun and easy; others are more thoughtful.
The Babysitters Club books by Ann Martin got started in 1986
The Goosebumps series by R.L. Stine started 1992
The Choose Your Own Adventure series by various authors started in 1979
Hoops by Walter Dean Myers (1981)
War Horse by Michael Morpugo (1982)
Bright Shadow by Avi (1985)
The Castle in the Attic by Elizabeth Winthrop (1985)
A Rat’s Tale by Tor Seidler (1986)
So Far from the Bamboo Grove by Yoko Kawashima Watkin (1986)
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry (1989)
Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli 1990)
Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (1991)
The Midwife’s Apprentice by Karen Cushman (1995)
Enjoy the last weeks of summer!
-Amanda, Central Square Branch
