What are you reading from our Fall 2010 Book Fair? Check out these titles!
This blog is designed to accompany our Book Fair website "Reading Saves the Day" published on our Bay Farm Media Center website. Be sure to visit these websites by clicking their links in the sidebar. Happy Reading!
"Everyone's afraid of something." So begins the experience of 4 middle school aged students whose parents send them to the one place they believe can cure them of their fears. But this might be the scariest summer of their lives!
The four will face their phobias at the very exclusive and private (they will soon see how private) School of Fear. But don't take it too seriously.
Written in similar style to Lemony Snicket, this book flew out the door at our fall Book Fair. It was one of the most written about "Can't Wait to Read" posts on our Reading Saves the Day website. Click here to see what students had to say before they read the book School of Fear and other books from the Book Fair. Our Wallwisher page also shares books that students recommend from our Book Fair.
Eat This, Not That...for kids!
written by David Zinczenko
Have you ever wondered about the food choices you make and whether they are healthy choices? This best selling book will help you better understand what goes into the food we eat and what choices could be better for you when you are out and about at your favorite restaurant or fast food place.
Did you know?
You watch over 26,000 TV ads in a year...and 22% of them are marketing food! The message sent most often is that junk food is instant happiness.But it really isn't.
The book shares basic rules to be successful at eating healthy...
Rule 1: Never skip breakfast, ever.
Rule 2: Snack with purpose.
Rule 3: Beware of portion distortion
Rule 4: Drink responsibly
Rule 5: Eat more whole food and less science experiments
Rule 6: Set the Table
Rule 7: Kick the sugar habit
Rule 8:Eat the rainbow
The book also compares good and bad food choices at favorite restaurants and tells you calorie count and more. There's also a section on how to make choices from a menu, and what to look for that could be empty calories or calorie deceiving.
Another section teaches you how to read the nutrition information on grocery labels, which cereals are the best and worst and other snacks and food choices. There are even sample menus and physical fitness routines to try out.
Watch the video below to get more details on what awaits you inside the book...and if you check this book out from our library, be sure to share what you learn with your family!
The Klutz Book of Brilliantly Ridiculous Inventions
written by John Cassidy and Brendan Boyle
Klutz started its book series many years ago with a how-to juggling book that is still around today. (It's even still on our shelves for checkout!). One of the company's big ideas for success is actually about what most people think of as failures....the idea that you truly learn through mistakes because in order to learn how to make something better you have to work with its problems and solve them. (I really believe in this theory too!)
So this book is going to be one of my favorites from the Book Fair, because it's all about works in progress...inventions that need more "play" to become better. Klutz, and IDEO Toy Lab use the theory of "Play" in everything they do...and recently while online at a conference I was watching and listening to a presentation about "Learn by Design," the theory of "play," and how IDEO Toys work is currently being looked at by educational leaders....go figure!
Anyway, this book is hilariously full of inventions that you might recognize, but probably haven't seen in the stores. Take a look and let me know what your favorites are...here are some of mine:
Scholastic Book of World Records Ultimate Quiz Challenge
written by Jennifer Corr Morse
Here's the ultimate trivia and records Quiz Challenge book!
Take this book on the road, to parties, sleepovers, recess breaks, wherever you are with your friends and challenge them to a trivia quiz.
You can test your knowledge about animals, food, sports, toys, human body, science, entertainment, the world, and more...and the answers are in a special answer section so you can instantly determine whether you know your records trivia or not!
There are more than 350 exciting multiple-choice questions to challenge you with hours of reading fun! Illustrations and graphics support the challenge questions, but be sure to investigate your favorite topics and trivia by researching online or in books to discover even more interesting information to develop your knowledge base!
Scholastic has outdone itself this time by synthesizing trivia from their popular series of annual World Record Books to create the Ultimate Quiz Challenge! The book is organized by categories, and like all reference books it has a Table of Contents, Subject and Page Headings, and Index to find your favorite trivia content. The original series, the "Scholastic Book of World Records" has long ago surpassed our Guiness Book of Records series in circulation because at $10.99 it is more affordable and the size is easier to take along for hours of reading fun. The classic is still Guiness, but the take-along for Bay Farm school is Scholastic, and now the Ultimate Challenge will become another series must for our readers!
Be sure to check out the Book Trailer and see if you can measure up to the challenge with a sneak peak of the questions that await you! Coming soon to our Media Center Website we will feature our own Trivia Challenge Hunt with questions you create from your favorite Trivia and Record Books to challenge Bay Farm students!
National Geo Kids is at it again. Weird But True was so popular (especially at last year's Spring Book Fair where it made the hot table and was one of our top sellers/readers), that the followup Weird But True 2 has been published and was at our Fall BookFair... again at the hot table and over 100 students from grades 1-5 signing up online to take a chance to win it at our Book Give Away.
Take a look at the Book Trailer on our Book Fair website to see what all the fuss is about.
We gave away over $300 worth of books during the Book Fair. You can see the online signup we used by clicking here. Watch the Book Trailer that shares the titles we gave away. they will be featured here so remember to sign up to be notified when new postings happen. Remember, all the titles you see will be entered into the Extremely Popular binder so that you can sign up for your chance to check out one of them soon! And when you read one of the books be sure to talk about it on our website, here, or on the Voicethread we will be creating together soon!
Our Fall BookFair may be over but the reading has just begun! Be sure to check back here to find out about the terrific titles we have added to our Library/Media Center shelves from our Book Fair profits! Here's the link to our Reading Saves the Day websitewhere you can learn more about the great titles from the BookFair! As you get a chance to read these titles be sure to comment on what you have read so others can learn more about the new books in our library...but don't spill the beans!
