World Book Night 2014

WOOHOO!  Happy World Book Night Day!  Go spread the love of reading!  

 

This year, I'm giving away 20 copies of HOOT by Karl Hiassen to 20 lucky 5th graders at my school!  I asked each teacher to nominate 4 students who might need a little boost or encouragement to read, and I'll be announcing the winners on the morning announcements.  

I also made these Hoot-inspired bookmarks to go with the book! 

I'm also extremely happy to announce that I'm talking about my World Book Night experiences in more detail on Kirby Larson's blog!  Check it out!

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Review on Bookalicious

Head on over to Bookalicious.org to check out my review of CHOMP by Karl Hiaasen

 

Wahoo Cray lives in a zoo. His father is an animal wrangler, so he's grown up with all manner of gators, snakes, parrots, rats, monkeys, snappers, and more in his backyard. The critters he can handle.  His father is the unpredictable one.

When his dad takes a job with a reality TV show called "Expedition Survival!", Wahoo figures he'll have to do a bit of wrangling himself—to keep his dad from killing Derek Badger, the show's boneheaded star, before the shoot is over. But the job keeps getting more complicated. Derek Badger seems to actually believe his PR and insists on using wild animals for his stunts. And Wahoo's acquired a shadow named Tuna—a girl who's sporting a shiner courtesy of her old man and needs a place to hide out.

They've only been on location in the Everglades for a day before Derek gets bitten by a bat and goes missing in a storm. Search parties head out and promptly get lost themselves. And then Tuna's dad shows up with a gun . . .

It's anyone's guess who will actually survive "Expedition Survival". . . 

~image and summary from Goodreads~

This is a review of the advance reader's copy (ARC) sent to me by Ashley of Ashley Loves Books via ARCYCLING .  Thanks to you both.