Pagers Reading Program
The Pagers reading program is in its ninth season for the high school and eighth season for the middle school. Approximately 25% of the student body successfully completes the program each quarter.
2011-12 Fourth Quarter Book Selections
High School Quarter 4 Pagers Book
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
This book is set during World War II in Germany and is told by the narrator, Death, himself. It is the story of a young foster girl named Liesel Meminger who is living outside of Munich during World War II. Liesel scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can’t resist–books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement before he is marched to Dachau.
Zusak's writing is mesmerizing; it's sarcastic, emotional, sophisticated and wondrous.
Discussion dates will be May 21st and 22nd for the HS book.
Middle School Quarter 4 Pagers Book
The Limit by Kristen Landon
An eighth grade girl was taken today . . .
With this first sentence, readers are immediately thrust into a fast-paced thriller that doesn't let up for a moment. In a world not too far removed from our own, kids are taken away to special workhouses if their families excd the monthly debt limit imposed by the government. Thirteen-year-old Matt briefly wonders if he might be next, but quickly dismisses the thought. After all, his parents are financially responsible, unlike the parents of those other kids. As long as his parents remain within their limit, the government will be satisfied and leave them alone. But all it takes is one fatal visit to the store to push Matt’s family over their limit—and to change his reality forever.
Discussion dates will be May 14th and 15th for the MS book.
Details of the program are found at the link below.
Pagers is coordinated by Ms. Christina Lindstrom, Media Specialist.
"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body."
- Joseph Addison
