2nd Place Five Star Books: Rachel Jones, Kaley Pedretti, Tayla Krieger, and Zoey Halkin
East Troy Lions Public Library and the East Troy Middle School held their annual Battle of the Books over the past two weeks. Nine teams competed to represent the ETMS in February’s State Battle sponsored by WEMTA.
Elimination battles took place last week during WIN. The Final Battle between the sixth grade Five Star Books and eighth grade Fantabulous Four was live streamed into classrooms while sixth grade classes watched it live.
This is the second year the ladies of Fantabulous Four will represent East Troy. To prepare for the elimination battles each team had to read the same ten books then earn points by correctly answering a series of questions about details of the books. The State team will be reading an additional ten books for February’s battle. The State Battle is held asynchronously using a secured website.
School library staff are also preparing a high school team to represent the ETHS at that level. Battle of the Books is first offered to students at Prairie View Elementary in fifth grade. Library staff and fifth grade teachers will be preparing those students for a strictly in district version in January. Those students will also read ten books and compete in March.
Reading Now: What I Ate in One Year by Stanley Tucci (I'm looking forward to trying the Minestrone and eggplant recipes he included).
Listening to Now: Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid
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