Literature

This is the second year that the PTO is sponsoring the Name that Book contest.
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Name That Book Club

West University Elementary will enter the HISD Name That Book Contest with two teams of readers for the 2007/2008 school year.  Name That Book is a reading contest sponsored by HISD that challenges kids to read a list of books and compete against other schools to test their knowledge of those books.   West U has some awesome student readers.  The West U team won its division in the 2006/2007 school year and went to the final HISD competition!!

There will be a team of K through 2nd graders and a team of 3rd through 5th graders.  K – 2nd team members must read a list 30 books and 3rd through 5th team members must read a list of 35 books (including all 20 Bluebonnet books).  The 2007/2008 book lists are set out below.  The book lists and rules are also available at www.hisdlibraryservices.org.

 The NTB Contests begin in April, so in order to be ready the Librarian and parent volunteers will sponsor book clubs for all interested students who love to read.   3rd, 4th and 5th graders will start meeting at the end of October and K through 2nd will start meeting in January.  The club members will read several of the books from the list each week and then discuss them at the Book Club meeting.

 The West U NTB Competition Teams of 6 students and one alternate will be chosen in the Spring from members of these Name That Book Clubs.    

 Questions?  3rd, 4th and 5th grade, e- mail cwinter@houstonisd.org or macoblenz@msn.com

 K, 1st and 2nd grade, e-mail cburnett5@comcast.net

  

  Here is the Name that Book List for 3rd-5th grades:

Author

 Title

 Reading Level

 Bluebonnet Book
Abbott, Tony.  Firegirl  6  yes
Bauer, Marion Dane.  The Blue Ghost  2.9  yes
Borden, Louise.  The Greatest Skating Race: a World War II story from the Netherlands  5.7  yes
Colfer, Eoin.  Artemis Fowl  6.7  no
Collins, Suzanne.  Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane  5.5  no
Coren, Stanley.  Why Do Dogs Have Wet Noses?  4.7  no
Couloumbis, Audrey.  The Misadventures of Maude March  5.2  yes
Creech, Sharon.  Heartbeat  5.4  no
DiCamillo, Kate.  The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane  5  no
Dowell, Frances O'Roark. Chicken Boy   6.8  yes
Freeman, Martha.  Who Stole Halloween?  4.1  yes
Haddix, Margaret Perterson.  Double Identity  5.8  yes
Hahn, Mary Downing.  Wait till Helen Comes: A Ghost Story  4.7  no
Kadohata, Cynthia.  Weedflower  5.4  yes
Kehret, Peg.  The Ghost's Grave  5  yes
Kehret, Peg.  Small Steps: the Year I got Polio  5.6  no
Lin, Grace.  The Year of the Dog: A Novel  4.8  yes
Markle, Sandra.  Outside and Inside Mummies  7.1  yes
Montgomery, Claire.  Hubert Invents the Wheel  7  yes
Myers, Walter Dean.  Jazz  4.4  no
Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds.  Roxie & the Hooligans  5.5  yes
Nixon, Joan Lowery.  Search for the Shadowman  6.5  no
Nolan, Lucy.  On the Road  1.3  yes
O'Brien, Robert C.  Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH  5.4  no
Osborne, Mary Pope.  Pompeii: Lost & Found  5.4  yes
Paterson, Katherine.  Bridge to Terabithia  6  no
Paulsen, Gary.  Hatchet  6.3  no
Rylant, Cynthia.  The Journey: Stories of Migration  5.3  no
Schubert, Leda.  Ballet of the Elephants  3.8  yes
Skye, Obert.  Leven Thumps & the Gateway to Foo  6.4  yes
Stanley, Diane.  Bella at Midnight  4.5  yes
Taylor, Gaylia.  George Crum & the Saratoga Chip  5.7  yes
Wallace, Bill.  Beauty  4.5  no
Wells, Robert E.  Did a Dinosaur Drink this Water?  5.5  no
Yep, Laurence.  The Earth Dragon Awakes: the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906  4.1  yes
 
Here is the reading list for grades Kindergarten -2nd.

Aggie and Ben:  Three Stories

Ries, Lori

Anansi and the Moss Covered Rock

Kimmel, Eric

Baby Shoes

Slater, Dashka

Bats at the Beach

Lies, Brian

A Birthday Cake is No Ordinary Cake

Frasier, Debra

Chicks and Salsa

Reynolds, Aaron

Clip-Clop!

Smee, Nicola

Cork & Fuzz:  Short and Tall

Chaconas, Dori

Count Me a Rhyme: Animal Poems by the Numbers

Yolen, Jane

Counting Ovejas

Weeks, Sarah

Do Whales Have Wings?

Dahl, Michael

Duck & Goose

Hills, Tad

An Egg is Quiet

Aston, Dianna Hutts

Farley Found It!

Van Patter, Bruce

For You Are a Kenyan Child

Cunnane, Kelly

The Friendly Four

Greenfield, Eloise

Gingerbread Cowboy

Squires, Janet

The Greedy Triangle

Burns, Marilyn

Hooray for Harry

Lewis, Kim

Looking for a Moose

Root, Phyllis

Move Over, Rover!

Beaumont, Karen

Nate the Great Talks Turkey

Sharmat, Marjorie

Not Afraid of Dogs

Pitzer, Susanna

Nutmeg and Barley:  A Budding Friendship

Bynum, Jamie

Officer Buckle and Gloria

Rathmann, Peggy

On the Go with Mr. and Mrs. Green

Baker, Keith

Sally Jean, the Bicycle Queen

Best, Cari

Sea Horse:  The Shyest Fish in the Sea

Butterworth, Chris

Spy in the White House

Roy, Ron

Wallace's Lists

Bottner, Barbara