Scholastic Book Fair Books

Hello,
Our Scholastic Book Fair is running this week and I found a few titles that I thought you might like.
There are a number of books about war which seem to be very attractive to the boys at our school. One is a true story about Danish teenage boys are unhappy that the adults do not resist the Nazi occupation, so they start their own ‘Nazi Resistance’ Club named after Winston Churchill. They sabotage the Nazis and are eventually discovered and imprisoned. This gets the adults going, so they began to also resist. The title is The Boys Who Challenged Hitler.

Choosing Courage tells true stories of courageous acts, and War Dogs gives information and stories about the dogs who help our soldiers in the field.

Deborah Hopkinson is well-known for her research into her non-fiction books. If I see her name on a book, I purchase it knowing it will be interesting and also true. At our book fair, there are two books by her; Titanic and Courage and Defiance. Courage and Defiance is about spies, saboteurs, and survivors in World War 2 in Denmark. I assume you can guess what the Titanic book is about, but this book contains stories about the survivors of the Titanic, as well as information. I may have told you about this one in a previous post.

There is one World War 2 novel that has a great cover. The Enemy Above is about a boy who has been hiding and trying not to be discovered, but finally has had enough and doesn’t try to hide any longer. It sounded quite exciting.

There are three picture books that I especially like. Born in the Wild has lovely illustrations about baby wild animals along with short paragraphs that give information about each baby animal. The end of the book has a few pages with more information on each animal for the parent reader. Bugs in my Hair is about a child who gets lice. It is funny, informative, and may help students learn more about lice and how NOT to get it! The illustrations are comical and the words are as well. It would be a good class book that may help the stigma of lice lessen. Finding Winnie is the true story of that famous bear, Winnie the Pooh. We learn the background of Christopher Robin and how he became fascinated with Winnie.

The last one is 365 Things to do With Lego Bricks. Legos are a big thing here and I have a lot of books about Legos. They all are out to students most of the time, but this one is new, so I guess I will be adding it to our collection.

I hope you enjoy these books. If you have a Scholastic book fair at your school, you will be able to take a closer look. If you don’t have Scholastic book fair, check your local public schools. They might host one and you would be welcome to visit their fair and buy books. You can also get these through the Scholastic site or pretty much any book store.
Enjoy!
Audrey