An exciting opportunity!!

I have been completely absorbed in The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins - I've flown through the first two books in the past week or so and am starting the last book today.  Several students have also read the series, and I'm encouraging everyone to pick these up because they are IMPOSSIBLE to put down and are worth a smacking 15 AR points each!!!!

Scholastic Book Club flyers for January and February are being sent home today with instructions for easy online ordering - purchasing books through Scholastic online is a great way to build personal libraries because the selections are much cheaper than bookstore prices, and with each online order, we earn free books for our classroom library!

Also, an exciting opportunity for budding authors - Scholastic is having a writing contest, and the Grand Prize is a trip to the premiere of the movie The Hunger Games, which comes out on March 23, 2012!!

The story must be a dystopian tale that is originally your own. 

Follow this link for contest details, and visit this site and this Wikipedia entry to read more about what a "dystopian" story is.