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Title: Battles of the Books and More : Reading Activities for Middle School Students
Publisher: Highsmith Incorporated
Publication Date: 2000
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1579500471
ISBN 13: 9781579500474
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Good
Weight: 0.602 pounds

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Motivate children to read a variety of books using this complete guide to planning and implementing fun, successful reading competitions. Provides forms and promotional materials and a complete set of questions/answers related to both current popular titles and classics. Useful websites offer supplementary information about the books and authors, techniques for increasing participation and suggestions on how to correlate the contests with music and art. Offers advice on recognition, cooperative programming between school and public libraries, publicizing the contests, effective use of volunteers and parents, and more. For use with grades 5-8.

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Sybilla Cook has over 30 years of experience as a school library media specialist and consultant in Illinois and Oregon school districts, and she also taught library science and computer science at the college level.

Frances Corcoran has 38 years experience as a school library media coordinator and public library youth services librarian in Illinois and Hawaii. She was also a college instructor in library science and children's literature and programming.

Beverley Fonnesbeck has 42 years of experience as a school library media specialist in Alaska, and is the author of numerous study books and intructional aids.

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Better World Books (https://www.BetterWorldBooks.com) is a for-profit, socially conscious business and a global online bookseller that collects and sells new and used books online, matching each purchase with a book donation. Each sale generates funds for literacy and education initiatives in the U.S., the UK, and around the world. Since its launch in 2003, Better World Books has raised $33 million for libraries and literacy, donated over 32 million books, and reused or recycled more than 397 million books.

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