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The 100% Nutmeg CLUSTER CHALLENGE!

If your cluster reads 100 Nutmegs and every student in your cluster reads at least one NUTMEG before June 12th your cluster will be treated to a video and popcorn party! Class read alouds don't count but at home read alouds and audio books do!

2009-2010 Grades 4th-6th Selections

2009-2010 Grades 6th-8th Selections  

The Nutmeg

Connecticut 4th, 5th and 6th graders will again be choosing a favorite book from the 10 terrific pre-selected choices given them by Connecticut school librarians. At Reed,  5th graders who read 5 of the Nutmeg books are eligible for voting, as are 6th graders who read 8 of the ten Nutmeg books. This year the Nutmeg has been extended to 7th-9th grades. So we have two lists of books.  Students can read from  either list. who wish to earn credit for Nutmeg reading from now until January  (and thereby REGISTER TO VOTE in the January 2008 Nutmeg elections) can pick up a mini-book report in the library, fill it out and return it to the Nutmeg bin in the library. Students can also get credit for reading a Nutmeg books by taking an AR quiz on a school computer. Students can then add a sticker to their name on their class Nutmeg clipboard, which is on display in the library.

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Students who meet our Nutmeg requirements are invited to lunch with an author!

We are pleased to announce...

Author Shelley Pearsall  will be coming to Reed to speak to our 2007-2008 Nutmeg Voters on May 7th! Ms. Pearsall will be talking about her experience researching and writing Trouble Don't Last,  which won Virginia's Jefferson Cup in 2003, the Pennsylvania Keystone to Reading Award in 2003 and a Book Report Literary Prize.  Students will have an opportunity to purchase and have the author sign their book.

A synopsis of Trouble Don't Last.

Eleven-year-old Samuel was born as Master Hackler's slave, and working the Kentucky farm is the only life he's ever known-- until one dark night in 1859, that is. With no warning, cranky old Harrison, a fellow slave, pulls Samuel from his bed and, together, they run. The journey north seems much more frightening than Master Hackler ever was, and Samuel's not sure what freedom means aside from running, hiding, and starving. But as they move from one refuge to the next on the Underground Railroad, Samuel uncovers the secret of his own past-- and future. And old Harrison begins to see past a whole lifetime of hurt to the promise of a new life-- and a poignant reunion-- in Canada. In a heartbreaking and hopeful first novel, Shelley Pearsall tells a suspenseful, emotionally charged story of freedom and family. "Trouble Don't Last" includes an historical note and map. "From the Hardcover edition."

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