READING+OLYMPICS

===According to the Montgomery County Intermediate Unit, "The goal of the Reading Olympics is to increase students' reading for enjoyment and increase reading skills. Students collaborate with their teammates to read forty to fifty books that have been selected by a committee of librarians, reading specialists and classroom teachers. These professionals read the books and write questions which teams of students answer during the competition. The Olympics are primarily a celebration of reading rather than a contest. All participants are awarded ribbons. Since the teams generate much excitement about this event, the experience is rewarding for everyone involved." ===


===The Pottsgrove High School Library contains many of the books on the Reading Olympic List for this school year, and is trying to set up a Reading Olympics team. The following is the 2009-2010 Reading Olympics Book List listed by title: ===

Adoration of Jenna Fox Pearson, Mary E. Adventures of Johnny Bunko Pink, Daniel Angela's Ashes McCourt, Frank Bad Boy: A Memoir Myers, Walter Dean Beast Napoli, Donna Jo Black Like Me Griffin, John Chinese Cinderella Mah, Adeline Yen Cry in the Night Clark, Mary Higgins Cuba 15 Osa, Nancy Dawn Wiesel, Elie Dragonsong McCaffrey, Anne Fat Kid Rules the World Going, Kelly Geeks Katz, John Girl in Hyacinth Blue Vreeland, Susan Grendel Gardner, John Haunting of Hill House Jackson, Shirley Hunger Games Collins, Suzanne If You Come Softly Woodson, Jacqueline Inherit the Wind Lawrence, Jerome Invasion Cook, Robin Ironman Crutcher, Chris It's Not About the Bike Armstrong, Lance Journey Back Reiss, Johanna King's Shadow Alder, Elizabeth Kite Runner Hosseini, Khaled Luna Peters, Julie Ann Magic Kingdom for Sale-Sold Brooks, Terry Mister Pip Jones, Lloyd My Sister's Keeper Picoult, Jodi Paper Towns Green, John Pastwatch Card, Orson Scott Persepolis Satrapi, Marjane Prom Anderson, Laurie Halse Riding the Bus with My Sister Simon, Rachel Samurai's Garden Tsukiyama, Gail So Yesterday Westerfield, Scott Stardust Gaiman, Neil Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers Roach, Mary Sunrise Over Fallujah Myers, Walter Dean They Came From Below Blake, Nelson Timeline Crichton, Michael Unwind Shusterman, Neal Wedding West, Dorothy Wyrd Sisters Pratchett, Terry Year of Wonders Brooks, Geraldine
 * READING OLYMPICS BOOK LIST FOR 2010**

TITLE AUTHOR LAST NAME AUTHOR FIRST NAME LEVEL YEAR Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian,The Alexie Sherman SR 2009 American Born Chinese Yang Gene Luen SR 2009 Animal Farm Orwell George SR 2009 Bean Trees Kingsolver Barbara SR 2009 Before I Die Downham Jenny SR 2009 Blood and Chocolate Klause Annette SR 2009 Born Blue Nolan Han SR 2009 Born Confused Hidier Tanuja Desai SR 2009 Burn Journals, The Runyon Brent SR 2009 Can't Get There From Here Strasser Todd SR 2009 Crank Hopkins Ellen SR 2009 Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Haddon Mark SR 2009 Deliver Us from Evie Kerr M.E. SR 2009 Everlost Shusterman Neal SR 2009 First Part Last Johnson Angela SR 2009 Friedrich Richter Hans SR 2009 Getting Away with Murder Crowe Chris SR 2009 Great Gatsby Fitzgerald F. Scott SR 2009 In the Time of the Butterflies Alvarez Julia SR 2009 Inexcusable Lynch Chris SR 2009 Life As We Knew It Pfeffer Susan Beth SR 2009 Life in the Fat Lane Bennett Cherie SR 2009 Life, the Universe and Everything Adams Douglas SR 2009 Long Way Gone Beah Ishmael SR 2009 Lovely Bones Sebold Alice SR 2009 Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary Myers Walter Dean SR 2009 Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac Zevin Gabrielle SR 2009 Monster Myers Walter Dean SR 2009 My Antonia Cather Willa SR 2009 Old Man and the Sea Hemingway Ernest SR 2009 Pearl Steinbeck John SR 2009 Raisin in the Sun, A Hansberry Lorraine SR 2009 Rebecca DuMaurier Daphne SR 2009 Repossessed Jenkins A.M. SR 2009 River Between Us Peck Richard SR 2009 Road of the Dead, The Brooks Kevin SR 2009 Sense and Sensibility Austen Jane SR 2009 Sweetgrass Hudson Jan SR 2009 Tithe: A Modern Fairy Tale Black Holly SR 2009 Touching Spirit Bear Mikaelsen Ben SR 2009 True Confessions of a Heartless Girl Brooks Martha SR 2009 Tuesdays with Morrie Albom Mitch SR 2009 Twisted Anderson Laurie Halse SR 2009 Watchers Koontz Dean SR 2009 Where the Heart Is Letts Billie SR 2009
 * READING OLYMPICS BOOK LIST 2009**


