I Lived on Butterfly Hill

If you didn't make it to our last book club, you missed an awesome activity! You won't want to miss out on the next one. We will be discussing I Lived on Butterfly Hill by Marjorie Agosin and Lee White! We will meet on Monday, May 2nd during lunch to discuss this award-winning novel. 

How to Outrun a Crocodile When Your Shoes Are Untied by Jess Keating

What an awesome book this turned out to be! It is a current Georgia Book Award nominee and happens to be serious, funny, and focus on so many life lessons that it is a book not to be missed. I can't wait to discuss it with the 5th grade girls book club on Monday, March 14th! You won't want to miss this one! I rarely laugh out loud when reading a book but with this one, I couldn't resist.

Loot by Jude Watson

Although a mature topic, Upside Down in the Middle of Nowhere by Julie T. Lamana was an interesting look into life during and after Hurricane Katrina. Now that we have read two Georgia Book Award nominees, we will be reading one more in order to be eligible to vote. Our next book is Loot by Jude Watson. Some of the book club boys read it earlier this year and absolutely loved it. One student described it as an Ocean Eleven for kids. Perfect description if you ask me. We will meet on Monday, February 8th to discuss Loot. Who knows...we may even discover some loot of our own!

Upside Down in the Middle of Nowhere

Our Art to Book Club is one of the highlights of my day every month! We made such fabulous book art inspired by Prairie Evers. It is now on display in our Book to Art Club Museum in our lower school media center. We hope you will come check it out!

As we continue to read more Georgia book award nominees in order to be eligible to vote by late January, we have chosen Upside Down in the Middle of Nowhere by Julie T. Lamana for our next book club book.

From the moment we started reading about this book, which is a moving story about Hurricane Katrina, we knew we had to read it next! We can't wait to discuss it on Monday, January 4th after our holiday break!

Prairie Evers by Ellen Airgood

We had a blast being mysterious creating messages in invisible ink at the last girls book club for Liar and Spy by Rebecca Stead! Our next pick is Prairie Evers by Ellen Airgood, which is also a Georgia Book Award nominee this year. We will meet on Monday, November 23rd and we will make something great for the Book to Art Club chapter to which we now belong. If you want to read about friendship, family, finding happiness when you least expect it, and you are a 5th grade girl at The Davis Academy, please be sure to join us at our next book club! We will meet during lunch so please bring your lunch and I will provide a treat. Happy reading!

If you would like to check out a Kindle from the LS media center to read the month's book club book, please have a parent complete this form, which can be turned into the Media Center.  Or, if you would like to bring in your own e-Reader for book club, please complete theAcceptable Use Policy Form and return it to Lauren Ward.

Readers & Creators Wanted: Books to Art Club 2015-16!

This year promises to be the best book club year yet! We have joined forces with The Book to Art Club to lauch this unique opportunity for 5th grade girls at The Davis Academy. Throughout the year, we will be not only reading and discussing fabulous books but we will also be making some unbelievable art to go along with our talks. This is an opportunity you won't want to miss! For our first book, we will be reading Liar and Spy by Rebecca Stead, author of When You Reach Me. We will meet to discuss & create on Monday, October 12th in the Media Center during lunch so please come having read the book and bring your lunch. You are in for a delicious treat!

If you would like to check out a Kindle from the LS media center to read the month's book club book, please have a parent complete this form, which can be turned into the Media Center.  Or, if you would like to bring in your own e-Reader for book club, please complete theAcceptable Use Policy Form and return it to Lauren Ward.

May Book Club

The 5th grade girls always have a lively meeting when we get together!  This month's meeting was no exception as we talked about When You Reach Me, which is an interesting book in that it doesn't fit exactly into one genre of literature.  Most of our book club members really liked the book, although there was some confusion regarding certain events in the story.  For our next (and last!) book club meeting, we will be reading The One and Only Ivan.  This is a fiction story based on the true account of Ivan, a gorilla who lived much of his life in a cage at a shopping center.  I am sure that, once again, the girls will be animated in their opinions!  We will meet Monday, May 18th during lunchtime.  Happy Reading!