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March Book Madness Begins March 1st!

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March Book Madness Starts Here…#2015MBM

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Mrs. Rombach loves a little hoop action. Who doesn’t stare wide-eyed when a player swishes that silent, sinking, nothing-but-net ball?

Well, March Madness is in full gear–on and off the basketball court.  Fifth grade teacher Mark Jones, from Columbus, Ohio, started March Book Madness last year–and it’s spread across the globe in just 12 months. Wondering who besides Eagle Ridge’s awesome sixth graders might be participating? Click here to see Mr. Jones’s map.

In true March Madness fashion, it’s all about the brackets. Every week, we’ll be voting on which Middle Grade books to move forward. We’ll take part in crowning the champion! I’ve inserted the bracket so you can scout out the competition. Whether you’ve read the competing books or not, we need your vote! Scroll down to see my “collage players”. Then, beginning March 4, take the poll to determine which books move on. Come back every week–the competition is bound to heat up. This could be one for the history books (or the romance books, or the mystery books, or the dystopian books, or the adventure books, or the…you get the idea!). Now head to the library and practice your mad reading skills. 🙂

Presenting The Sweet Sixteen

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Here are two book trailers to check out. Want to see more? You know your way to YouTube! 🙂

Vote for your favorite books! Scroll to click done.

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Ready for a Blogtastic Summer Book Club? YA YA YA!

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The difference between ordinary and


is that little extra. – Author Unknown

The Inspiration for a Blogtastic Book Club

Reading fuels my soul, especially my summertime, sun-loving, porch-sitting soul. With just 11 classroom days remaining in the school year, I am thinking about books, digging around the internet searching for books, and plotting out which books I’ll lose myself in this summer. Are you doing the same?

In days, my ordinary reading life is about to go totally extraordinary. I am ridiculously excited (regardless of how nerdy and teacherly that might sound) to stretch out on my glider like a sun-bathing cat and savor every extra minute between the pages of a good book.

As I drove home from work this afternoon, I thought how fun it might be to establish a summer book club. Not the grown-up version that means monthly meetings and hours spent crafting gourmet finger foods. Instead, I envision an online bloggers’ book club. A book club designed for those who love to read–and to write about–books. With that idea in mind, I went to work assembling a lineup of potential summer book club reads.

What do you think? Which 4-5 books should I (potentially we) read this summer? Leave your recommendations in a comment and number your choices 1-5, with 1 being your number one pick and five being your least favorite.

Would you want to read the same book as me, at the same time, so we could blog about it here on mrsrombachreads (and on your own blog)?

Are there any books that you think I should add to this list? 

 

Mrs. Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

Girl Stolen by April Henry

Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech

Wringer by Jerry Spinelli

Rooftoppers by Katherine Rundell

When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead

The Raft by S.A. Bodeen

 

Top 10 Things You Should Do If You Want to Write a Novel

On an altogether different note, if you dream of following in the footsteps of wildly popular writers like Suzanne Collins (Hunger Games), Veronica Roth (Divergent), or Rick Riordan (Heroes of Olympus), you might want to read author Lisa Schroeder’s list of top 10 things you should do if you want to write a novel. Pay especially close attention to item #1. You may have heard it a few times from me. 🙂

Remember to leave a comment with your top 5 choices for a summer book club. I’ll post more about this soon.

Counting down the days until summer,

Mrs. Rombach