Along with reading for pleasure, we try to refine research and technology skills in middle school library classes. Seventh and eighth graders hone their library/ information skills and work on using various technologies.
Middle school Battle of the Books is an online reading competition. The competition window is open during the last week of February. Students work in teams of 4 to answer questions about the content of these books:
Alabama Moon by Watt Key Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix Auggie and Me: Three Wonder Stories by R.J. Palacio Booked by Kwame Alexander The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwanbe Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson Echo by Pam Munoz Ryan Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling Heat by Mike Lupica House Arrest by K. A. Holt Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer Mockingbird by Kathryn Erskine A Night Divided by Jennifer Nielsen Orbiting Jupiter by Gary D. Schmidt Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse Roller Girl by Victoria Jamieson The Sword of Summer by Rick Riordan Upside Down in the Middle of Nowhere by Julie T. Lamana Untwine by Edwidge Danticat The War that Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley