Name That Book Club 2022-2023
Does your child love to read, enjoy a challenge, and will be in 3rd, 4th, or 5th grade next year? Would they like to be in our Fox Name That Book Club? Attached is a list of 25 books that have been chosen by Klein ISD Elementary Librarians to be a part the Name That Book Club for 2022-2023. This list includes a mixture of current and classic literature, from a wide variety of genres.
If your child would like to participate, and be on a Name That Book Team next school year, he/she may begin reading as many books as possible from this list starting now. Your child will need to take notes in a special notebook about each book they read, about the characters, setting, and plot. Teams will begin forming and meeting during the school day in September 2022 to see how they are progressing with reading the books.
We will form into teams of up to 8 students, so each student will be responsible for reading at least 10 books on this list by Thanksgiving, but reading more books and having a deep knowledge of them will help make their team more competitive. Each team will vote on one captain. The teams will compete in our campus competition against each other at Fox in December 2022, and the top team from our school will go on to compete in our district competition against other Klein elementary schools in February 2023.
Students will be asked to identify the title of a book when quotes from the books are read. They may work as a team to decide on their answer, and then the captain will raise up a card that shows the title of the book chosen. The goal is to build reading skills and motivate readers, and this is a great opportunity to have fun with reading while enjoying teamwork and competition. The students will learn to analyze the books they read in a way that will help them as they read in school and in the real world. We hope they will come out of the experience loving reading even more than they do today! If your child is seriously interested in joining our Name That Book Club, please fill out the form sent home and return it to the library, or email me with questions.
Happy Reading (and note taking)!
Name That Book Club BOOK LIST 2022-2023
1. Aliens on Vacation by Clete Barrett Smith
2. The Bicycle Spy by Yona Zeldis McDonough
3. DC Study Hall of Justice by Derek Fridolfs
4. First Cat in Space Ate Pizza by Mac Barnett
5. Flashback Four The Hamilton-Burr Duel by Dan Gutman
6. Hello, Universe by Erin Entrada Kelly
7. Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai
8. Long Lost by Jacqueline West
9. Merci Suarez Changes Gears by Meg Medina
10. Mindy Kim and the Yummy Seaweed Business by Lyla Lee
11. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo
12. Odder by Katherine Applegate
13. The One Thing You'd Save by Linda Sue Park
14. A Place to Land: MLK Jr. and the Speech that Inspired a Nation by Barry Wittenstein
15. The Polter-Ghost Problem by Betsy Uhrig
16. The Shadows by Jacqueline West
17. Sharuko: El arqueólogo peruano Julio C. Tello/Peruvian Archaeologist Julio C. Tello by Monica Brown
18. The Strangers: Greystone Secrets by Margaret Peterson Haddix
19. Swish! The Slam-Dunking, Alley-Ooping, High-Flying Harlem Globetrotters by Suzanne Slade
20. Thirst by Varsha Bajaj
21. Towers Falling by Jewell Parker Rhodes
22. Twins by Varian Johnson
23. Unbound: The Life and Art of Judith Scott by Joyce Scott
24. Wedgie & Gizmo by Suzanne Selfors
25. Who is the Man in the Air? by Gabriel Soria
