Skip to main content

March Madness Round 2 Begins!

Well, Round 1 ended yesterday, I hope you were all able to come in and vote for your favorites!

There were some EXTREMELY close calls, but these are the winners and who they will go up against each other in Round 2 (which will end March 27th).

Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater 65%
vs.
I am the Messenger by Marcus Zusack 35%

Drums, Girls and Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick 57%
vs.
Graceling by Kristin Cashore 43%

Cezanne is Missing by Frank McMillan 4%
vs.
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan 96%

Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment by James Patterson 58%
vs.
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld 42%

Paper Towns by John Green 47%
vs.
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow 53%

Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins 71%
vs.
City of Bones by Cassandra Clare 29%

A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray 25%
vs.
Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer 75%

Eragon by Christopher Paolini 77%
vs.
Dairy Queen by Catherine Murdock 23%
  • Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater vs. Drums, Girls and Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick
  • The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan vs. Maximum Ride: the Angel Experiment by James Patterson
  • Little Brother by Cory Doctorow vs. Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
  • Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer vs. Eragon by Christopher Paolini
I think this is going to be a tough round!

On Monday I will be drawing a name from the ballots for the weekly prize, so check your email!

DFTBA,
Sti

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Summer 2021 Recommendations for Your High School Reader!

  Summer is fast approaching and if you have a high school reader, you might be looking for new titles to engage them this summer. Librarian, historian, and author Alexandria Brown has allowed us to share their recommended lists to help make that easier! Per their blog*: As a high school librarian, offering reading recommendations for students is one of my favorite parts of my job. These lists are for parents, library workers, and teen readers... I created these lists through an alchemy involving age of the protagonists, themes, genre, tone, complexity, reader skill/comfortability level, events and topics a student will likely encounter in their studies during the school year, and books they are unlikely to read for school. I also tried to pick materials that published in the last few years or will be published by June 2021. Preference to #ownvoices and marginalized authors. Below you'll find links to their lists broken up by grade level. Whether you know an avid reader who always...

Origami Racer/Cicada 8 and up craft!

If you'd like to craft along with Ms. Sti on Zoom at 1:30 today (June 23), click this link!  Otherwise, you can follow these instructional pictures below! (Make sure you don't glue the yarn!) Loop the yarn around something solid and tug at the loose ends of the yarn to watch your origami climb!  

Coraline Trailer!

Here's the best trailer for Coraline so far. And it's actually Neil Gaiman's (he wrote the book) favorite! The movie comes out February 6th and I'll definitely be seeing it that weekend, so if you want to see it with me let me know and we can get a group of people to see it together! I know Kathleen and Mallory are already on board! dftba, Sti