D58 'The Reading Games' Releases Book Lists

Submitted by Downers Grove Grade School District 58.

A reliable source reports that children all over Downers Grove are frantically calling and texting friends, forming groups with funny names and planning costumes….No, this is not about Halloween trick-or-treating!

This is about The Reading Games! Team reservations will open online at dg58.org/TheReadingGames on Monday, Nov. 2 at 9 a.m. The Reading Games will take place on Saturday, March 12, 2016 at O’Neill Middle School.

The Reading Games announces that students may now access the Level 1 and Level 2 books lists online at www.dg58.org/TheReadingGames or published below.

Level 1:

• The Very Nearly Honorable League of Pirates: Magic Marks the Spot by Caroline Carlson
  
• The Legend of Diamond Lil by Doreen Cronin
  
• The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by DiCamillo & Ibatoulline
  
• The Lost Treasure of Tuckernuck by Emily Fairlie
  
• Fortunately, The Milk by Neil Gaiman
  
• Absolutely Almost by Lisa Graff
  
• Almost Super by Marion Jensen
  
• A Snicker of Magic by Natalie Lloyd
  
• Touch Blue by Cynthia Lord
  
• Capture the Flag by Kate Messner
  
• Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
  
• Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin by Liesl Shurtliff
  
• I Survived the San Francisco Earthquake, 1906 by Lauren Tarshis
  
• Shredderman: Secret Identity by Wendelin Van Draanen
  
• Loot by Jude Watson
  

Level 2:

• Crunch by Leslie Connor
  
• The Girl Who Could Fly by Victoria Forester
  
• The Great Wide Sea by M.H. Herlong
  
• The Secret Hum of a Daisy by Tracy Holczer
  
• Eight Keys by Suzanne LaFleur
  
• The Unwanteds by Lisa McMann
  
• V is for Villain by Peter Moore
  
• The Boundless by Kenneth Oppel
  
• Here Lies Linc by Delia Ray
  
• The Fourth Stall by Chris Rylander
  
• The Eighth Day by Dianne K. Salerni
  
• The Accelerati Trilogy, Book 1: Tesla’s Attic by Neal Shusterman and Eric Elfman
  
• The Meaning of Maggie by Megan Jean Sovern
  
• That Girl Lucy Moon by Amy Timberlake
  
• As Simple As It Seems by Sarah Weeks

Students should begin forming teams now – team reservations are limited to the first 90 teams and will fill up fast! This past spring, more than 500 students participated in The Reading Games. View a video from last year’s The Reading Games athttps://youtu.be/srk5Ob9G6tc.

The Reading Games is a free and fun district-wide reading competition for District 58 students in grades 3-8. Teams of five to eight students collaborate to read 15 books from one of two book lists: Level 1 and Level 2. During the Reading Games, the teams compete to answer questions about the books. Teams may comprise students representing different schools or grade levels, as long as everyone attends District 58 schools.

Christy Gergits and Deb Krygeris coordinate The Reading Games. Gergits is a Whittier School reading specialist, and Krygeris is a Whittier sixth grade teacher.

The Reading Games Committee – comprising teachers and librarians – has read and vetted each book for the competition. Both the District 58 library resource centers and the Downers Grove Public Library carry copies of The Reading Games books. Level 1 books are geared toward third-through-fifth grade readers. Level 2 books are geared to the sixth-through-eighth grade level. However, any Reading Games team may select either list to read, regardless of their grade level.

Students who wish to join The Reading Games but cannot find enough peers to form a team may complete a Team Request Registration form, and The Reading Games Committee will attempt to place those students on a team. This form will be available on The Reading Games website Wednesday, Nov. 4.

For more information, including frequently asked questions, book lists and reservation forms, visit www.dg58.org/TheReadingGames.