Middle School Monday – This year’s ‘Book for All Readers’

We just recently completed voting for our ‘Book for All Readers’ campaign for this school year. If you’d like to read more about the program, here is an explanatory post. Each year the students in my middle school nominate books for our schoolwide read. My Readers Club members help me narrow the voting pool down to 4 choices, which we then put on ballots. This year’s choices were Cinder by Marissa Meyer, Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan, The Mighty Miss Malone by Christopher Paul Curtis, and Sisters by Raina Telgemeier.

It was no surprise to me that Sisters won the vote, although it was a surprise that it wasn’t more of a landslide. I even had one grade level where it wasn’t the winner. Since we don’t put books on the ballot unless we are willing to purchase 20 copies of them for the school library, I’m always pleased with the outcome. I’m hopeful that this title winning might break down some barriers that are usually in place when it comes to students reading graphic novels. I know I have some stakeholders who don’t really believe that graphic novels qualify as reading.

Each year I do a display with a breakdown of the votes by grade and title. I’ve already placed an order for the copies, as well as some of Telgemeier’s other graphic novels. Now we just have to wait.

Next I will be making a pinterest board for my Readers Club to pin ideas for our celebration – any thoughts?

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