Showing posts with label book fair. Show all posts
Showing posts with label book fair. Show all posts

Thursday, October 7, 2010

Book Fair Books




Yeah, so I bought some books at the book fair last night. More than I normally do. Either that or they were more expensive! Yes, you can see The Maze Runner in this stack. I think this is the fourth Maze Runner I've bought. According to Mr. Dashner, that means I've personally contributed about $8 to his livelihood! This copy will be donated to Toto's class. Maybe they'll read it all together there, I don't know. 

As for the other books, Toto requested the second 39 Clues book. Yeah, we are little behind in those. Savvy I've been meaning to read forever. Sent is the second in a series, the first of which I read for a book fair book talk a couple of years ago. The third one is now out. The Ranger's Apprentice is another series I am way behind on, so I thought I'd buy this first book and see for myself what I think. Skellig has a Printz Award seal on it, so I bought it based on that fact alone. And Eon, I heard of somewhere and it sounds very intriguing. 

So what do you think? Should I bump some of these to my readathon pile? I guess we'll see! More likely, they'll sit on my shelf  for a couple or three years and then maybe I'll think about reading them!

Saturday, February 7, 2009

How To Run a Book Fair


For the Blog Post Bingo game as suggested by Kim for our Blog Improvement Project, I need to do a "How To Post". So, what do I know how to do? The only thing that's coming to mind for this week is:

How to Run a Book Fair!

1. Make sure you partner with a great company like Scholastic.

2. Gather LOTS of wonderful people around you to help.

3. Have a planning meeting and make assignments.

4. Put someone in charge of Book Talks.

5. Put someone in charge of decorations.

6. Put someone in charge of Teacher Preview and the Teacher Wish Lists.

7. Put someone in charge of finances.

8. Put someone in charge of reordering and stocking the books.

9. Put someone in charge contests and Look and Lunch.

10. Have them ALL sign up to cashier when the book fair is actually running.

11. Buy three or four reams of paper.

12. Get on the computer and compose a student flier, a teacher letter, a small flier for the Highlight brochure, bookmarks, teacher door fliers, student wish list forms, etc.

13. Go to the school and copy all that stuff on your three or four reams of paper.

13. Hang posters.

14. Make sure the teachers get all the stuff they need to pass out to the kids so everyone knows there's going to be a book fair.

15. Staple 600 little fliers to the Highlight brochure.

16. Get those out to the kids.

17. Check up on everyone who has assignments!

18. Set up the book fair!

19. Help with Teacher Preview and Book Talks.

20. Start selling books!

21. Sell books all week!

22. Survive Look and Lunch event. Two of them.

23. Pack up and take down the book fair.

24. Have other people count the money and tell you how much you made for the school.

25. Go home and relax until it's time for the next book fair!

After that nice explanation, now you too can be in charge of your school's book fair! Have at it!


(My "how to" post sort of turned into a "list" post. Strange how that happens.)

Friday, February 6, 2009

Book Fair Loot


I bought a lot this time.... but it's all for a good cause, right? Right! Here's what I came home with:


Purplicious by Victoria and Elizabeth Kann: For Toto to give to her teacher.

The Haunting of Derek Stone by Tony Abbott: Because Toto said she really wanted it!

Models Don't Eat Chocolate Cookies by Erin Dionne: Because the author commented!

The 39 Clues: The Maze of Bones by Rick Riordan: For Moder's birthday, and because we need to see what these books are all about.

Fairest by Gail Carson Levine: Because Toto read the first page and decided she HAD to have it... besides, she won the student drawing and got to pick a free book!
The Boy Who Dared by Susan Campbell Bartoletti: Because everyone's been saying how good it is... and besides, my water bottle totally leaked on it and so I HAD to buy it! Poor book.

Violet Raines Almost Got Struck by Lightning by Danette Haworth: Because we had a great book talker that made Toto decided this was also a book she really needed to read.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw by Jeff Kinney: Because we need book three for our set and besides that, the series is one of the best!

Every Soul a Star by Wendy Mass: Because our great book talker said it was good.

Gossamer by Lois Lowry: Because it was a good hardback, and it's on my Dewey Challenge list.

Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson: Because this one has been making a buzz and I need to read it.

Palace of Mirrors by Margaret Peterson Haddix: Because it was another great hardback deal and looks so good!


Yeah! Fun books! I'm so excited!

Friday, October 10, 2008

Book Fair Books


Books I "talked up" at the book fair this week:


A Crooked Kind of Perfect by Linda Urban
Deep and Dark and Dangerous by Mary Downing Hahn
Found by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Schooled by Gordon Korman
Elephant Run by Roland Smith
The Wimpy Kid Do it Yourself Book
Allie Finkle Rules for Girls: Moving Day by Meg Cabot
Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis
Seekers: The Quest Begins by Erin Hunter
The White Giraffe by Lauren St. John
Listen by Stephanie S. Tolan
The Key to Rondo by Emily Rodda
The City of Ember by Jeanne Duprau


Books I bought at the book fair this week:


Hive: The Higher Institute of Villanous Education by Mark Walden
Eggs by Jerry Spinelli
The Wimpy Kid Do It Yourself Book
Mia by Laurence Yep
The Mother Daughter Book Club by Heather Vogel Frederick
Deep Down Popular by Phoebe Stone
Most of these I've never heard of.. they just looked interesting. Maybe someday I'll even read them!

Friday, February 8, 2008

Book Fair Wrap Up!


Today I'm wrapping up the book fair. Yeah! It's been a crazy week.


Here's what's been popular this time around... books we haven't been able to keep in stock:


Swindle by Gordon Korman

Diary of a Wimpy Kid... books 1 and 2 by Jeff Kinney

No Talking by Andrew Clements

The Lightning Thief and The Sea of Monsters... books 1 and 2 of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series by Rick Riordan


Books I'll be buying today for my kids (and couple I already bought for a birthday):


Fablehaven by Brandon Mull

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Roderick Rules by Jeff Kinney

The Fall of the Templar (#3 in the Grey Griffens series) by Derek Benz and J. S. Lewis

Oggie Cooder by Sarah Weeks

The Talented Clementine by Sara Pennypacker

When My Name Was Keoko by Linda Sue Park

and a Hannah Montanta book.... yuck.

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

A Bunch of Mini-Reviews of Various YA Books!

So, you may remember awhile back I mentioned that I'm reading a pile of YA books in order to prepare for the book fair that I do over at the elementary school. So, I've been working on those, but haven't been posting on them. So here's a little run-down of what I've read so far:

Incantation by Alice Hoffman: a little, very quick-reading book about the religious unrest and Jewish perscution in Spain during the 1500's. It was a great insight into what happened there at this time, but somehow, the style made me just not really care about the characters. And it bugged me that I didn't care. Hmmm.... not sure exactly what it was about the writing, maybe just aloof, or something.

The Old Willis Place by Mary Downing Hahn: I really enjoyed this story about a couple of kids living on their own, when a new girl moves in next door and things start happening. It's a ghost story, with lots of chilling parts, but not TOO chilling, perfect for kids I'd say. Lots of twists and turns and surprises. Great story! And a great lesson learned at the end too.

Code Orange by Caroline B. Cooney: My first book by this very popular teen author. (Well, she's not a teen but she writes for teens... but you know what I mean!) Anyway, at first I was turned off by the subject, but then I really got into it. It's about this kid who has to write a report for school about a disease and he ends up picking smallpox. He discovers an old medical book with an envelpe that has a smallpox scab in it. EWWWW!! Anyway, things get going crazy from there! It was quite the page turner and so I ended liking it after all.

Shadowland by Meg Cabot: The first book in the Mediator series. This one I read not necessarily for the book fair, but just for my own Meg Cabot fix of the month! What is it about her books that I love so much? Hmmm... anyway. This book starts the adventures of Suze and her new life in California. Her problem? She can see dead people... ghosts who are stuck here for some reason and her job is to help them solve whatever is causing them to be stuck and move them on to where they should be. There's a bunch more books to follow, so I' m guesssing she has many ghost problems to solve down the road. Now I just need to find that second book!

Song of the Sparrow by Lisa Ann Sandell: I'm still in the process of this one, but I can tell you already that I'm loving it! Of course it's because it's about King Authur, Lancelot, and company! This one told through the eyes of Elaine of Shalott in a very poetic, lyrical style. We see all the familiar characters portrayed a little differently, especially Gwynivere, who we are NOT sympathtic to at all this time. Anyway, I'm anxious to be done with the computer so I can go finish this one!

Igraine the Brave by Cornelia Funke: Also still working on this one, by one of my favorite authors. However, this story isn't grabbing me quite as much as her other stories. Not sure why, could be that I'm too distracted, could be that it's written for a much younger audience than some of her others, I think. But anyway, still a really cute story about a girl whose ambition it is to be a knight. And she has just begun an adventure that I'm guessing will help her in that endeavor!

Friday, September 7, 2007

Preparing for the Book Fair


The job I've had in the PTA for the past six years or so has been to head up the book fair. We usually do a Scholastic book fair and have a great time promoting it, doing book talks for the kids, and running it for two different weeks in during the year.


So, it's coming up again in October and we've been given the list of books that Scholastic will be pushing this time around. Today, I went to track down a few of them at the library. I wasn't very successful, but I did come home with these books:


Incantation by Alice Hoffman

Things Hoped For by Andrew Clements

The Old Willis Place by Mary Downing Han

Code Orange by Caroline B. Cooney


Ones I put on hold:


Love, Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli

Igraine the Brave by Cornelia FUnke

Song of the Sparrow by Lisa Ann Sandell

Paint the Wind by Pam Munoz Ryan

Rules by Cynthia Lord

The Homework Machine by Dan Cutman

Diary of a Whimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney

Flush by Carl Hiaasen


And now I just realized that Things Hoped For is a sequel so I need to go back for:

Things Not Seen by Andrew Clements


So, that should keep me busy for the next little bit!


It's kind of like my own little intense month-long book challenge... to read as many new-ish YA novels advertised by Sholastic Book Fairs as I can!


Anyone read any of these and have anything to say about them?

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