Every Year is an Election Year ...

... when it comes to the Rhode Island Children's Book Award (RICBA)! Did you know that you can share your opinions about the nominees with other students around the state? Just head over to the RICBA blog and post your comments!

And if you think that one of the titles would make a great readaloud for your classmates, let your librarian know.

Spring Into New Books

Kids can get a head start on the 2013 RICBA reading list now that we've gotten more of them in. Other new arrivals include nonfiction the students helped select and lots of donations.

Nonfiction
001.94 Haw - The world's strangest unexplained mysteries
004.67 Gra - Managing your digital footprint
006.7 Poo - Designing, building, and maintaining web sites
006.7 Sut - The story of Facebook
133.1 Bai - Ghosts in America
323.44 Sen - Privacy and surveillance
338.7 Sut - The story of Apple
338.7 Sut - The story of Google
355 Por - Your career in the army
359 Orr - Your career in the Navy
359.9 Coo - Your career in the Marines
391.6 Nag - Tattoo artists
398 Bai - Zombies in America
398.2 Ony - The girl who married a ghost : and other tales from Nigeria
398.2 Pow - Red Riding Hood : the graphic novel
621.381 Hol - Electronics
623.7 Has - Tanks : inside & out
623.74 Win - Jet fighters : inside & out
636.72 Gag - Bulldogs
641.5123 Mcd - The ultimate step - by - step kid's first cookbook : delicious recipe ideas for 5 - 12 year olds, from lunch boxes and picnics to quick and easy meals, teat
781.64 Har - How to start your own band
793.8 Lan - Coin magic
794.8 Wil - Gaming : playing safe and playing smart
811 Pre - Zoo doings : animal poems
821 Dah - Revolting rhymes
910.4 Car - Pirates : scourge of the seas
910.91 Den - Titanic sinks!
910.91 Gan - The sinking of the Titanic and other shipwrecks
910.91 Hop - Titanic : voices from the disaster
B Louis - A nation's hope : the story of boxing legend Joe Louis (RICBA)
B Sar - Balloons over Broadway : the true story of the puppeteer of Macy's Parade (RICBA)
B Say - Drawing from memory
Drawing Books - 1 - 2 - 3 draw cartoon animals : a step - by - step guide
Drawing Books - 1 - 2 - 3 draw cartoon cars : a step - by - step guide
Drawing Books - 1 - 2 - 3 draw cartoon faces : a step - by - step guide
Drawing Books - 1 - 2 - 3 draw cartoon people : a step - by - step guide
Drawing Books - 1 - 2 - 3 draw cartoon wildlife : a step - by - step guide
Drawing Books - 1 - 2 - 3 draw cool cartoon stuff : a step - by - step guide
Drawing Books - How to draw extreme sports
Drawing Books - Telling the story in your graphic novel

Fiction

Ms. Moore's favorite book
of 2012 ... so far.

E War - Won - Ton : a cat tale told in haiku (RICBA)
F App (Series) - The capture
F App - The one and only Ivan
F Bat - Max Finder mystery : collected casebook. Volume 4
F Ben - The Allegra B. Biscotti collection. Book 1
F Buc - The sisters Grimm, book 8 : the inside story
F Buc - A very Grimm guide : inside the world of the Sisters Grim, Everafters, Ferryport Landing, and everything in between
F Car - Floors (RICBA)
F Cre - Hate that cat
F Eag - Knight's castle
F Gow - Amelia rules!. [1], The whole world's crazy
F Hal - Dial M for mongoose
F Hor - Eagle Strike
F Jac - Small as an elephant (RICBA)
F Ler (Series: 39 Clues) - The dead of night
F Mor - The squire's tale
F Pal - Wonder
F Phe - The storm in the barn
F Ryl - The fourth stall
F Ryl - The fourth stall. Part II
F San - Sidekicks (RICBA)
F Smi - Bone. [6], Old Man's Cave
F Tas - My life as a stuntboy (RICBA)
F Tel - Smile
F Wat (Series: 39 Clues) - A king's ransom
F Wee - Pie (RICBA)
 

State RICBA Winner

Halliwell RICBA Winner

Students who read three or more Rhode Island Children's Book Award (RICBA) books were eligible to vote for their favorite. We won't know the RI winner for a little while longer, but at Halliwell, The Strange Case of Origami Yoda by Tom Angleberger won by a landslide.

First runner-up: Mirror, Mirror by Marilyn Singer
Second runner-up: The Junkyard Wonders by Patricia Polacco

Most Held Titles - Fall/Winter 2011-12

1. What’s New, Cupcake? (cookbook)
2. Turtle in Paradise (RICBA*)
3. Lulu and the Brontosaurus (RICBA)
4. The Dancing Pancake (RICBA)
5. Diary of a Wimpy Kid #1
6. The Strange Case of Origami Yoda (RICBA)
7. Bink & Gollie (RICBA)
8. Rapunzel’s Revenge
9. Into the Wild (Warriors series)

* Rhode Island Children’s Book Award nominee

Grade 5 Origami (Yoda)

Getting through Origami Yoda as a readaloud took a lot longer that anticipated. However, along the way, students learned about the Twist, the National Spelling Bee (can you spell "sardoodledom"?), and Tycho Brahe. Not to mention how to make their own Origami Yodas.

RICBA Gives Kids the Vote

The Rhode Island Children’s Book Award (RICBA) goes to the book selected by students in grades 3-6 as their favorite from a list of 20 nominees.

Students who read 3 or more nominated books may vote in February. They will receive extra credit for each RICBA graphic organizer they submit; it asks them to record what the book was about and how they felt about it.

To give everyone a head start, we built research projects around one of the nominees in each grade.

Grade 3: Pop! The Invention of Bubble Gum
by Meghan McCarthy

After reading about Walter Diemer and the development of bubble gum, students are practicing taking notes on other inventors. They will be studying inventions more in depth later in the year in science.




Grade 4: Lulu and the Brontosaurus
by Judith Viorst

Lulu wants a pet brontosaurus, but her parents say no. And so does the brontosaurus! Students are researching pet care to develop information for Lulu that she would need to know if she got a different pet.







Grade 5: The Strange Case of Origami Yoda
by Tom Angleberger

Fifth graders are working together to brainstorm and choose research topics, then come up with specific research questions and find the answers. They are also learning about paper sculpture in art class.