There is a very bare looking tree on the bulletin board by the Exit Only door. We need your help to decorate it. I am featuring Book Award books this year and the bare tree is part of my plan. In first trimester the featured award is the the Newbery. Read any Newbery Medal or Honor book. Take a minute to tell me about the book - Did you like it? Do you think it deserved the award? What was it about? Then you get a fall leaf with your name and the book you read to add to the bulletin board. As we get closer to Halloween, there may be ghosts, witches, and bats to add to the display, too. 
I am currently reading the 2011 Newbery Medal book Moon over Manifest, by Clare Vanderpool. It's a story that takes place in a small Kansas town in 1936 where Abilene has been sent to stay by her drifter father. Manifest is the town where her father grew up and Abilene finds a mysterious group of letters that connects to the time when her father was a boy. There seems to be a mystery developing and I can't wait to read more.
To help you pick a book for the Reading Tree, the bulletin has a pocket with a checklist of Newbery books in our library. There is another pocket with a checklist of Anderson's Mock Newbery books for those of you who prefer more modern books. (The Newbery Award goes back to 1922!) Please read and help us decorate the Reading Tree.
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