RESOURCES

ATPE Book of the Month Club

Want to encourage your students to read for leisure and get more out of their reading? Every month we’ll choose one book from each of three reading lists compiled by the Texas Library Association and provide printable questions you can use with students for reflection or discussion. We’ll also link you to the Texas Library Association’s selections for preschool through grade 2.

Certificate

Give students who have finished reading an ATPE Book of the Month selection a certificate for their efforts. ATPE Book of the Month Club Certificate

*** ATPE Guest Reader Program ***

Teachers: Are you interested in reading one of the 2009-10 ATPE Book of the Month Club selections with your class? ATPE will select one teacher/class each month to read an upcoming book selection and create discussion questions for the selection. This is a great opportunity to engage your students in higher-order thinking skills. We’ll post a picture of the class on our Web site along with the discussion questions you’ve created, and we’ll send you a free copy of the book! Your class will also receive a special certificate upon completion. If you are interested in this valuable learning experience, please e-mail prof_dev@atpe.org.

Guest Reader positions are going fast!
Make sure to reserve your spot for the upcoming school year today

The book club is on hold for the summer but will be back in September. In the meantime, catch up on selections from previous months in the archives.

Archives

Grades 3-5

Gabriel’s Horses by Alison Hart; Questions | Poster

The Middle of Somewhere by J.B. Cheaney; Questions | Poster

Marvelous Mattie: How Margaret E. Knight Became an Inventor by Emily Arnold McCully; Questions | Poster

The Winner’s Walk by Nancy Ruth Patterson; Questions | Poster

Just Grace by Charise Mericle Harper; Questions | Poster

Team Moon by Catherine Thimmesh; Questions | Poster

One-Handed Catch by Mary Jane Auch; Questions | Poster

Atherton: The House of Power by Patrick Carman; Questions

Toys Go Out: Being the Adventures of a Knowledgeable Stingray, a Toughy Little Buffalo and Someone Called Plastic by Emily Jenkins; Questions

Grades 6-8

The Floating Island: The Lost Journals of Ven Polypheme by Elizabeth Haydon; Questions | Poster

Night of the Howling Dogs by Graham Salisbury; Questions | Poster

What the Moon Saw by Laura Resau; Questions | Poster

Beastly by Alex Flinn; Questions | Poster

Schooled by Gordon Korman; Questions | Poster

The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart; Questions | Poster

Dark Water Rising by Marian Hale; Questions | Poster

Breathe: A Ghost Story by Cliff McNish; Questions

The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt; Questions

High School

The Braid by Helen Frost; Questions | Poster

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman; Questions | Poster

Dark Hours by Gudrun Pausewang; Questions | Poster

Thieves Like Us by Stephen Cole; Questions | Poster
*This book contains some graphic content and language that may be inappropriate for some students.;

Incantation by Alice Hoffman; Questions | Poster

Revolution is Not a Dinner Party by Ying Chang Compestine; Questions | Poster

Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood by Ibtisam Barakat; Questions | Poster

The Murder of Bindy Mackenzie by Jaclyn Moriarty; Questions

Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac by Gabrielle Zevin; Questions