Here they are, the 10 awesome children’s novels selected to be part of our 2011 Global Reading Challenge:
- Alvin Ho: Allergic to Camping, Hiking, and Other Natural Disasters by Lenore Look
- Calvin Coconut: Trouble Magnet by Graham Salisbury
- First Light by Rebecca Stead
- George’s Secret Key to the Universe by Stephen and Lucy Hawking
- Heat by Mike Lupica
- How to Steal a Dog by Barbara O’Connor
- Morning Girl by Michael Dorris
- Riding Freedom by Pam Muñoz Ryan
- Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
- The Watsons Go to Birmingham–1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
Nearly 50 public schools in Seattle participate in the Global Reading Challenge. Each of the schools creates teams of fourth- and fifth-grade readers who compete in a “quiz bowl” game. Readers play the Global Reading game at the school level, then against other Seattle schools, and the winning Seattle team goes on to face (via videoconference) teams from schools in British Columbia. (That’s right — Canada. It’s international, thus the “Global” in Global Reading Challenge.)
Let the reading games begin!
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