Our wonderful Newbery book club students have created their masterpieces! Check out their book trailers, podcasts, and 90 Second Newbery Films below!

We love reading at F.AVE! All of our students set a personal summer reading goal to keep themselves reading all summer long. Our staff also loves to set their goals! Check out our staff summer reading goals below. 

Students can go to their Google Keep to see and adjust their goals all summer long!

Our annual Golden Ticket contest is up and running! We had our first winner today. See below for our winner hall of fame!

Here it is! The list you've been waiting for! What are F.AVE students going to be reading this year? Check out our most nominated titles below.

In October, I will be looking for students who are taking a risk on a book, reading something out of their normal scope to record a book talk, write a short blog, tell us all about how their risk-taking behavior paid off!

As the year goes by, I will be looking for students who:

• found a book that taught them something new, made them more knowledgeable about a topic
• read a book that opened their mind to a different point of view
• read a book that really made them think and reflect on the book after they finished reading it
• read a book that made them ask questions
• read a book that educated them about another culture

Fill out this form to receive more information about our different book clubs here at F.AVE!

This year our theme in the F.AVE Media Center is The Great F.AVE Read! We are going to pull from The Great American Read list and add books of our own to make a list of 100 books. 

I can't wait to introduce this to students and teachers, create our list, and start our challenge!

More information coming soon!

A few of my Newbery Book Club students chose to write book reviews for this year's Newbery Medal winner Hello, Universe, by Erin Entrada Kelly.  Check them out below!

It's that time of year again! My Newbery Book Club students created media presentations about some of their favorite Newbery winners. We have book trailers, 90 Second Newbery Films, and even an audio podcast this year.

This year, students read the two most current winners: The Girl Who Drank the Moon, by Kelly Barnhill and Hello, Universe, by Erin Entrada Kelly. Both got high marks from all students. We read Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis and then got to meet him when he came to F.AVE in October. Students got to choose a winning book from the 1990s, a "classic" winner, and a non-fiction Newbery winner. We looked at the criteria that the Newbery committees use to make their choices, and we evaluated books using that criteria. Students discussed their books and did different projects through-out the year. Their culminating project is a media presentation on a Newbery book of their choice.

Check out our wonderful presentations below!