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The 2009 Scholastic Book Fair Is Coming!!!!
SPECIAL LATE HOURS: Thursday, December 3rd and Tuesday, December 8th until 7:30pm!!!
SIX PIX!
SIX PIX is the 6th Grade Reading Program. 6th grade students of the previous year pick their favorite books they have read during their time as an HHP 6th grader. These choices are used to make an awesome selection for the rising 6th graders!
How it works…
Students must choose AT LEAST 4 of the TOP PICKS OR Virginia Reader’s Choice books to read over the course of the year.
Students must also read one Nonfiction book of choice and one Biography of choice.
(That makes 6 books altogether!)
For every 10 books read you achieve a free paperback book!
The Language Arts period (per team) that reads and shows comprehension of the most books (per capita) at the cut off date wins a Pizza Party!
Participation in Six Pix also counts towards the Language Arts Grade.
Students must pass an Accelerated Reader test for each book read to show proof of reading.
See below for how to Double Dip!
TOP PICKS by ’08-’09 6th Graders:
SERIES BOOKS:
Airborn series by Kenneth Oppel (Airborn, Skybreaker, Starclimber)
Diary of a Wimpy Kid series by Jeff Kinney (Greg Heffley’s Journal, Rodrick Rules, The Last Straw)
Any Gary Paulsen books by Gary Paulsen
Maximum Ride series by James Patterson (The Angel Experiment, School’s Out Forever, Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports, The Final Warning)
Percy Jackson and the Olympians series by Rick Riordan (The Lightning Thief, The Sea of Monsters, The Titan’s Curse, The Battle of the Labyrinth, The Last Olympian)
Warriors Saga by Erin Hunter (ALL SERIES: Warriors, The New Prophecy, The Power of Three)
NON-SERIES BOOKS:
Blue by Joyce Moyer Hostetter
The Boy Who Dared by Susan Bartoletti
Cracker by Cynthia Kadohata
Deep and Dark and Dangerous by Mary Downing Hahn
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Fairest by Gail Carson Levine
Found by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Jackie and Me by Dan Gutman
Shakespeare’s Secret by Elise Broach
Double Dip! ALL Virginia Reader’s Choice ’09-‘10 books count towards Six Pix AND the Virginia Reader’s Choice Whole School Competition (see below!)!
The Black Book of Secrets F.E. Higgins, Feiwel and Friends, 2007.
Book of a Thousand Days Shannon Hale,
First Light Rebecca Stead, Wendy Lamb Books, 2007.
Keeper Mal Peet, Candlewick, 2005.
Lawn Boy Gary Paulsen, Wendy Lamb Books, 2007.
Miss Spitfire: Reaching Helen Keller Sarah Miller, Atheneum, 2007.
Savvy Ingrid Law, Dial, 2008.
The Uprising Margaret Peterson Haddix, Simon and Schuster, 2007.
Wednesday Wars Gary Schmidt, Clarion, 2007.
Virginia Reader’s Choice HHP Edition:
WHOLE SCHOOL COMPETITION!
Read 4 or more…invited to vote!
Read all 10…Free Paperback Book and Ice Cream Party!
The participants in the top 3 Language Arts classes in the school that read the most VRC books (per capita of the participants) by the cut off date win a Pizza Party!
BONUS: Grade Level SWEEP!!! If one grade sweeps first, second, and third place, all of the participants in that grade will be invited for an After School Movie Party.
Participant= Read and show understanding of at least 1 book.
Understanding of books must be shown by taking and passing an Accelerated Reader test.
March cut off.
Virginia Reader’s Choice Books ’09-‘10
The Black Book of Secrets F.E. Higgins, Feiwel and Friends, 2007.
Book of a Thousand Days Shannon Hale,
First Light Rebecca Stead, Wendy Lamb Books, 2007.
Keeper Mal Peet, Candlewick, 2005.
Lawn Boy Gary Paulsen, Wendy Lamb Books, 2007.
Miss Spitfire: Reaching Helen Keller Sarah Miller, Atheneum, 2007.
Savvy Ingrid Law, Dial, 2008.
The Uprising Margaret Peterson Haddix, Simon and Schuster, 2007.
Wednesday Wars Gary Schmidt, Clarion, 2007.
