Let the Reading Madness begin!

March Madness isn’t just for College Basketball.  The Frederick County Middle School Literacy Committee is sponsoring a Reading Madness contest!  

We took the 16 most popular books checked out of the FCMS library this year, seeded them, set up a bracket, and created an awesome bulletin board display.  Students are welcome to complete a bracket, which can be found on the bulletin board.   

Here are the match ups…

#1 Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan

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#16 Under the Egg by Laura Marx Fitzgerald

#2 Zero Tolerance by Claudia Mills

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#15  Ungifted by Gordon Korman

#3  Half a Chance by Cynthia Lord

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#14  Seeing Red by Kathryn Erskine

#4 Prisoner B-3087 by Alan Gratz

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#13 Shadow by Michael Morpurgo

#5 The Inquisitor’s Mark by Dianne Salerni

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# 12 Twerp by Mark Goldblatt

#6 One for the Murphys by Lynda Mullaly Hunt

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#11  Loot by Jude Watson

#7 Drama by Raina Telgemeier

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#10 The President Has Been Shot! by James L. Swanson

#8 The Boy on the Wooden Box by Leon Leyson

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#9 The Eighth Day by Dianne Salerni

I’m so glad to see so many Virginia Readers’ Choice titles being checked out!

Each week, students will vote for the book they think should win the match up.  The winners of each round will be announced on Friday mornings.  The champion will be announced on Monday, April 3.  

We hope this will be a fun and exciting way to promote reading!