Massachusetts authors, Jen Malone, Lori Goldstein, Jen Brooks, and Trisha Leaver, designed this challenge to introduce students to the concept that authors are not magical unicorns, but regular people living and working all around them... and if they can make their dreams come true, so can you!
Here's how it works:
The challenge is open to any school, library, homeschool cooperative, or book club and will run throughout the 2015-16 school year. Working off the poster to the right, as a group, we work together to read the featured titles, or up the challenge and read them all yourself! Each book featured is written by an author who calls New England home and is appropriate for middle school readers.
If at least one student in the school completes a book, we will mark it off on the poster. In April 2016, we will send in our tally and the top four schools win an author visit by one of the four sponsoring authors. If more than four groups achieve the highest possible score of 30/30, a drawing to select the winning group.
