Robbinsdale Middle School Suggest Summer Reading Programs

Here at RMS Media Center we are winding down for summer break.
Just because it is summer doesn't mean we want to see our students stop reading!!
We have had such an increase in book checkouts, book readings, book reviews and other student involvement, we would hope that students keep up their hard work!

There are several great programs encouraging student readership!











Hennepin County Library sponsors a summer reading program called “Bookawocky: A Celebration of Summer Reading,”
Hennepin County Libraries offer hundreds of free programs for kids and teens.
Click the link below for more information:
BOOKaWOCKY

Barnes & Noble Summer Reading Program

Kids can earn a free book just by reading!

This year the Barnes and Noble summer reading program, Imagination's Destination, gives out a free book to each child who reads 8 books over the summer.
Check out Barnesandnoble.com for more information

Choose a FREE BOOK from our selection on the Reading Journal list at the store... Enjoy reading!

The Half Price Books summer reading program  is for kids 14 and under gives out free Half Price Books gift cards to kids who read for at least 300 minutes during June and July. The program runs from June 1 to July 31, 2013.

Click the link below for more information:
Feed Your Brain


Scholastic also offers a summer reading challenge and contest!
The Summer Challenge allows students to enter and track their reading minutes on a personal homepage and check their weekly progress towards earning virtual rewards.
Check out their summer challenge page for more information and to register.
You will also find some great summer reading lists there as well.

Scholastic Summer Challenge



How about reading books to earn free tokens at Chuck E. Cheese's? Read for two weeks and earn 10 free tokens.

Click here for more information:
Chuck E. Cheese's Rewards

Robbinsdale Middle School is Coming to the Year's End all Library Books are DUE!

Library Materials
All library materials were due on May 20, 2013
Make sure you have everything turned in to the Media Center so that you can go on your end-of-year field trips!

Books by Blei: Burn My Heart

Burn My Heart

by Beverly Naidoo

Recommended by: Shantel S.

This book is a good book but you hav to be interested in different cultures. Mugo can teach you how to tell the truth when needed so pay attention to him and Matthew. You will see how fast others would trad on you in a heartbeat.

This book was: Interesting.

I would recommend this book to: People who love to learn about different cultures.

A/R Level: 5.2 UG

A/R Points: 6 points

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Books by Blei: Fallen

Fallen

by Lauren Kate

Recommended by: Alicia Smit

A girl named Luce meets a guy named Daniel. They fall in love; the twist is she burst into flames the moment they kiss. It's a tragic love story, sad but romantic all at the same time. She usually dies, but reincarnates again, but this time it changes...

This book was: Exciting and a New Secret is Uncovered at Each Turn

I would recommend this book to: Anyone who loves tragic romance.

A/R Level:  5.7 MG

A/R Points: 16 points

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RMS Celebrating Our Eighth Grade Readers from Mrs. Philstrom's Class

All these readers gave their books a "thumbs up"!

 

Payback Time

by Carl Deuker

Recommended by: D.J. B.

Dork Diaries: Not-So-Talented Pop Star

by Rachel Renee Russell

Recommended by: Kameron C.
 

The Lost Boy: A Foster Child's Search for the Love of a Family

by David Pelzer

Recommended by: Ana M.

Raven In A Dove House

by Andrea Davis Pinkney

Recommended by: Alexandria B.

Student Artwork Bookmarks Available Now in the RMS Media Center!

We have some wonderful bookmarks made with artwork by one of students.

Each bookmark has a different genre of books that we have in the RMS Media Center.

Each bookmark also has all the information for students to find our RMS Reading Blog!

 

Bookmarks are free and available in the Media Center.

 

Thank you to our wonderful artist, Tina D.

8th Grade Book Reviews

Currently at RMS all of our Eighth Grade Students are doing book reviews!
We are excited to share these with you as they complete their projects.

 

Catching Fire

by Suzanne Collins

Recommended by: Brian L.

The Hoopster

by Alan Lawrence Sitomer

Recommended by: Dylan P.
 

Books by Blei: T4

 

T4

by Ann Clare Lezotte

Recommended by: Alexa J.

T4 is about a little girl who is deaf when the Nazi's were trying to kill all of the disabled kids. She is hiding for her life and has to leave her family. Will she ever see her family again?

This book was: Outstanding! I loved this book!

I would recommend this book to: Anyone who wants to learn more about history.

A/R Level:  4 MG

A/R Points: 1 points

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RMS Celebrates Get Caught Reading Month! See Who We've Caught Reading!

Robbinsdale Middle School Celebrates Get Caught Reading Month from renderlein

Robbinsdale Reads: Shiver

Shiver

by Maggie Stiefvater

Recommended by: Priscilla V.

Grace loves wolves and wishes to be one. Sam is a wolf in the winter when it is cold, but when summer comes and it is hot, he is a human and wishes to stay human forever. But this might be his last chance to be a human forever. Grace and Sam do whatever they have to do for Sam to stay human forever.
Will their plan work?

This book was: Similar to the Twilight series, but 1,000 times better!

I would recommend this book to: Anyone who loves.

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Looking for a Great New Series? Check out these!

The Graceling Realm Trilogy by Kristin Cashore

Graceling: In a world where some people are born with extreme and often-feared skills called Graces, Katsa struggles for redemption from her own horrifying Grace of killing and teams up with another young fighter to save their land from a corrupt king.    

Fire: Fire is the last human monster who lives in the war-torn Dells. She is summoned by the royal family to protect them with her power of mind control.    

Bitterblue: Eighteen-year-old Bitterblue, queen of Monsea, realizes her heavy responsibility and the futility of relying on advisers who surround her with lies as she tries to help her people to heal from the thirty-five-year spell cast by her father, a violent psychopath with mind-altering abilities.    

Watch this great book trailer for Graceling!