Category Archives: Adventure
The Genius Files by Dan Gutman
Island Series by Gordon Korman
Masterminds by Gordon Korman
New Series in our Library by author Bear Grylls!
Bear Grylls is a wilderness expert and is known for his television series Man vs Wild. His new series for children “A Beck Granger Adventure”” is now available for checkout in our library!
George’s Secret Key to the Universe by Lucy & Stephen Hawking
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Swindle by Gordon Korman
I,Q by Roland Smith: Student Review by Tabitha
I,Q Is a great, fun mystery/adventure book! It’s A-Amazing! I’d give it 5 STARS!!! It got me sitting on the edge of my seat, it was so exhilirating! The storyline was great, and you could TOTALLY relate to the characters!!! Q (short for Quest) is a smart, fun kind of guy, who can find a way out of any sticky situation, but can’t seem to be able to lie. Angela is a shy, quiet, and is a survival expert who can seem to endure the toughest outdoor scenarios, and want’s to be on the Secret Service (when she grows up)like her seemingly “dead” (real not step) mother, Malak Turner. But when a “roadie” named Tyronne Boone becomes their famous step-parents’ driver things start to change! Boone is really there to protect Angela from terrorists who are hungry for revenge of Malak Turner who apparently according to Boone has a 50/50 chance that she’s alive. How did that happen?? Will Angela be okay? Read the book and find out
Student Books Trailers
We all know how traditional book reports work: read the book and write a summary to prove you read the book. So what is a Book Trailer? It’s simply an advertisement for a book. Have you ever been to the movies and watched the previews for upcoming attractions? Like a movie trailer, it highlights story elements without giving everything away to entice your interest.
The Book Trailer below was made by me by using Windows Live Movie Maker.
Tabitha in sixth grade is making a Book Trailer using the following steps. We will learn how to create a storyboard, import pictures via Community Clips to match the words she has written ( 
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.), find perfect (royalty free) music (Incompetech.com & http://freeplaymusicclassic.com/)to set the tone of the book and, most importantly, entice others to read her book!
Here are the steps:
1. Read a book
2. Write a summary outline.
3. Create a story board.
4. Match images to the words.
5. Place images in Windows Live Movie Maker.
6. Add words. Or, if using an ipad, reading the writing to create a voiceover.
Here’s the completed project!!!
Hide and Seek by Katy Grant: Student Review by Lulu
This action packed book is about 14 year old Chase and is secret. His mom and stepdad Rick own a little shop and cabins up in the high mountians in Arizona, but Chase loves the outdoors, the sweet smell of crisp fresh air and watching the deer and elk graze. So after a summer of being cramed in that little store helping his family, Chase decides to go on his first geochace alone. When Dexter (his huge lovable dog) and him get there, the site look muggled. But when he opens the log book, there’s a note with 8 words….to find out what happens to Chase read the book, it really good I promise!