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An Olympic Sized Event: the Tournament of Books

Please encourage all your students to read some tournament books in preparation for the physical education Olympic Games coming in early March.  Students can earn points for their Olympic team and read some great books in eight different genres. Here’s how the book part of the Tournament will work this year. Staff can certainly participate also! Until the end of March, please encourage students to read any of the 64 Tournament Books and log any books they have read in the past or are currently reading from the tournament list using the form found on the Tournament website on the Library home page. (Teachers, please assign yourself to a mod 4 A day PE class so as not to impact the Olympic competition.) Olympic teams will be assigned in early March.  Points will be given to students and awarded to their Olympic team for: 10 points:   Students will earn 10 points for each book read, up to five books, and can also substitute one book for an “unprepared” excuse from physi