book contests

A simple guide to implementing a Read It Forward program in your middle school library. Teens recommend books to other teens, offering a way to promote books and reading.

Provides information on how to plan and implement a variety of different reading competitions for middle school students; and includes a list of related websites, techniques for encouraging participation, and advice on recognition, publicity, and other topics.

Provides information on how to run library quiz programs using books. Includes lists of recommended books and suggested questions for 250 books appropriate for use with third through eighth graders.

Games that can be used for reading promotion with a small group, entire classroom or school, or even a state wide competition using questions based on plots, settings, and characters and skits based on books such as, The adventures of Tom Sawyer, The wizard of Oz, Freckel juice, and Pippi Longstockings.

Presents suggestions for creating book contests for students in elementary school, including information on over three hundred popular and classic book titles for grades K-5 with sample questions, related web sites, contest basics, reading activities, and research ideas.