Children's Choice Awards!

The 3rd annual Children's Choice Awards is rapidly approaching! Students in grades 3-5 are invited to read up to eight popular titles and vote for their favorites at RC Clubhouse.

 

The 2013 titles are:

-Fake Mustache: Or, How Jodie O'Rodeo and Her Wonder Horse (and Some Nerdy Kid) Saved the U.S. Presidential Election from a Mad Genius Criminal Mastermind by Tom Angleberger

        Lenny Flem Jr. is the only one standing between his evil-genius best friend, Casper, and world domination as Casper uses a spectacularly convincing fake mustache and the ability to hypnotize to rob banks, amass a vast fortune, and run for president.

-The Mighty Miss Malone by Christopher Paul Curtis

        With love and determination befitting the "world's greatest family," twelve-year-old Deza Malone, her older brother Jimmie, and their parents endure tough times in Gary, Indiana, and later Flint, Michigan during the Great Depression.

 

-In a Glass Grimmly by Adam Gidwitz

        Frog joins cousins Jack and Jill in leaving their own stories to seek a magic mirror, encountering such creatures as giants, mermaids, and goblins along the way. Based in part on fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen.

 

-Chomp by Carl Hiaasen

        When the difficult star of the reality television show "Expedition Survival" disappears while filming an episode in the Florida Everglades using animals from the wildlife refuge run by Wahoo Crane's family, Wahoo and classmate Tuna Gordon set out to find him while avoiding Tuna's gun-happy father.

 

-The Third Wheel: Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Book #7) by Jeff Kinney

        A Valentine's Day dance at Greg's middle school has turned his world upside down until an unexpected twist gives Greg a partner for the dance and leaves his best friend Rowley the odd man out.

 

-Wonder by R.J. Palacio

        Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunting and fear of his classmates as he struggles to be seen as just another student.

 

-Who Could That Be at This Hour? (All the Wrong Questions Seris #1) by Lemony Snickey

        In a fading town, far from anyone he knew or trusted, a young Lemony Snicket began his apprenticeship in an organization nobody knows about. He started by asking questions that shouldn't have been on his mind. Now he has written an account that should not be published, in four volumes that shouldn't be read

 

-I Survived the Attacks of September 11th, 2001 (I Survived, Book #6) by Lauren Tarshis

        When Lucas decides to skip school because he wants to discuss football with a firefighter friend of his father, he finds himself caught up in the terrorist attacks on New York City.

 

To learn more about the Children's Choice Awards and the finalists celebration planned for May 9, 2013, visit RC Clubhouse Events.