Hello Readers, As you know we are reading the currently unreleased novel Dragon Run by Patrick Matthews. Don’t worry we don’t have illegal bootlegged copies, we just jumped on the power of Scholastic Book Orders and got it a few weeks before its official release date. In the beginning of the story you will find…
Hello Readers, Great News… The box full of Dragon Run by Patrick Matthews was slowed by our recent icy weather, but not stopped. As you can see we are now in possession of ten shiny copies of this new book. Stop by Mr. H’s room this week to pick up you copy! It looks like…
Hello Readers, Loyal readers to our SMS Guys Read blog will know that we have divided our Guys Read club into a 6th grade group and a 7th/8th grade group. The 6th grade lads meet every Friday and we have been doing some crazy things related to I will Destroy You Derek Jeter by Chris…
Hello Readers, Some big news out of Quail Ridge Books…. Tom Angleberger is coming to town August 15! The finale of the Origami Yoda books is set to be released on Tuesday August 7. The book is called The Secret of the Fortune Wookie. We asked if he might be able to stop by SMS…
Hello Readers (and Writers), Today we had a fun lunch time meeting. We started the meeting with the awesome news that Guys Read: The Sports Pages showed up yesterday afternoon. A big Thank You goes to Ms. Yingling over at Ms. Yingling Reads who not only sent us The Sport Pages, but also included The…
Hello Readers, Today we had a sixth grade lunch meeting and hashed out some ideas for our Call It Courage reading. Some really cool ideas are percolating and you can see them in the following video… We would love to hear what you think of our challenge and if any of you have read Call…
Hello Readers, A few days ago I was checking in on a few of my favorite reading and kid lit blogs. I came across the awesome Nerdy Book Club blog and a few familiar faces. Mr. Shaffer, from our Intercontinental Ballistic Reading Group, had written a post. It was a really great to read and…
Hello Readers, So most of you probably know that April is National Poetry Month, most of you probably also curl your lip at the thought of reading a bunch of poetry. I get it, we talked in the media center yesterday about how many poems are hard to understand and that makes a lot of…
Hello Readers, As you may have read I just got back from a trip to Washington DC and we actually took the train up there. We decided to get off in Alexandria, Virginia not, downtown DC, as it was closer to our hotel. On the way home I really noticed the building across the street…
Hello Readers, As you probably well know, the basketball world has settled down to its final four and that means we are one weekend away from crowning another SMS Guys Read Books and Basketball Champion. The Final Four will consist of… Where Things Come Back (UK) vs Darth Paper Strikes Back (Louisville) …
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