Downers Grove Grade School District 58 announces that registration for the fourth annual The Reading Games will open on Thursday, Nov. 3, 2016 at 9 a.m. on its website. Students should register early - Only 90 teams can join, and space fills up fast!
The Reading Games will take place on Saturday, March 11, 2017 and 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. Books are available at District 58 school LRCs and at the Downers Grove Public Library. During the event, the teams compete to answer questions about the books.
The Reading Games Committee also just posted their Level 1 and Level 2 book lists on their website and listed below. 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 an Individual Registration form on The Reading Games website on or after Nov. 3, and the Reading Games Committee will help place those students on a team together.
The Reading Games Book Lists – 2016-2017
Level 1:
- The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate
- The 100-Year Old Secret (The Sherlock Files) by Tracy Barrett
- Who Was Ben Franklin? by Dennis Fradin
- Stone Fox by John Gardiner
- The Year of Billy Miller by Kevin Henkes
- The Fourteenth Goldfish by Jennifer Holm
- Roller Girl by Victoria Jamieson
- Dash by Kirby Larson
- Rescue on the Oregon Trail (Ranger in Time Series) by Kate Messner
- Nuts to You by Lynne Perkins
- Wild River by P.J. Petersen
- Piper Green and the Fairy Tree by Ellen Potter
- Night of the Twisters by Ivy Ruckman
- The Sasquatch Escape by Suzanne Selfors
- Gone Fishing by Tamera Will Wissinger
Level 2:
- The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
- Awkward by Svetlana Chmakova
- Lost in the Sun by Lisa Graff
- Fish in a Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
- Masterminds by Gordon Korman
- The Colossus Rises by Peter Lerangis
- Rain Reign by Ann Martin
- Every Soul a Star by Wendy Mass
- The Tarantula Scientist (Scientist in the Field Series) by Sy Montgomery
- Woods Runner by Gary Paulsen
- Echo by Pam Munoz Ryan
- Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan
- The Screaming Staircase by Jonathan Stroud
- My Life as a Book by Janet Tashjian
- The Shadows (Book 1 of The Books of Elsewhere) by Jacqueline West
For more information, visit www.dg58.org/TheReadingGames or visit their Twitter page at www.twitter.com/TheReadingGames.