One Book For Nebraska Kids
or One Book For Nebraska Teens
Wouldn't it be great if kids all over Nebraska were talking about books? The
Nebraska Library Commission & the Regional Library
Systems have a program where kids can all read and discuss the same book.
This year's book: Blank Confession by Pete Hautman, is for high school
age teens.
To borrow the book bags, contact Nebraska Library Commission Information and Reference Services,
402-471-4016, 800-307-2665, e-mail, or the Regional Library System
offices. For more information contact Sally Snyder,
Nebraska Library Commission Coordinator of Children and Young Adult Library Services, 402-471-4003,
800-307-2665. Guidelines can be found
here. This is a thought-provoking book to read anytime and librarians may borrow the book set
whenever it is available and fits into their library or school's schedule. The
Library Commission has many other book bags available - check them out
here.
We plan to continue to promote One Book for Nebraska Kids or One Book for
Nebraska Teens in alternating years. A title for the 2013-2014 "One Book for Nebraska
Kids" for
grades 4-6 or so, will be selected in the fall of 2012.
One Book For Nebraska Teens 2012-2013
Blank Confession
by
Pete Hautman
Here are some PDF files to help you setup a book discussion:
Activities
Author Information
Discussion Questions
Book Review Submission Form
Puzzles:
Clueless Crossword
Answers
Crossword
Answers
Tile Puzzle
Answers
Word Search
Answers
Posters:
Poster, legal size
Poster, letter size
Websites:
Websites for the Book
Evaluations:
Adult Evaluation
Teen Evaluation
Discussion Leader Evaluation
One Book For Nebraska Kids 2011-2012
The Last Newspaper Boy in America by
Sue Corbett
This year's book is for grades 4-6 or so. Wil David, has just turned 12 and
takes over his brother's newspaper route just in time to find out the newspaper
will no longer be provided to his town, Steele. He is determined to fight it. On
another front, he decides to investigate a new game at the fair, which promises
a $1,000 prize, and he wonders what the catch is. Wil uses the library a lot and
is a good researcher. His determination won him the nickname "Wil of Steele."
Readers will be curious about the outcome of both issues.
NEW Official Website,
http://onebook4kids.nebraska.gov/last-newspaper-boy/, for details about
the book and the author, and to access resources.
Here are some PDF files to help you setup a book discussion:
Activities
Author Information
Discussion Questions
Book Review Submission Form
Puzzles:
Clueless Crossword,
Answers
Crossword,
Answers
Tile Puzzle,
Answers
Word Search,
Answers
Posters:
Poster, legal size
Poster, letter size
Websites:
Websites for the Book
Evaluations:
Adult Evaluation
Kids Evaluation
Discussion Leader Evaluation
One Book For Nebraska Teens 2010-2011
Unwind, by
Neal Shusterman
This year's book is aimed at high school age Nebraska teens.
Unwind, by
Neal Shusterman, tells of a future America
where parents can choose to have their children between the ages of 13 - 18,
"unwound" (their body parts are harvested and given to others). Connor,
16, is shocked when he discovers his parents have decided to have him unwound.
He runs away and strives to survive, encountering others like himself. In a future America, parents can choose to have their children between
the ages of 13 - 18, "unwound" (their body parts are harvested and given to
others). Connor, 16, is shocked when he discovers by accident that his parents plan to have him unwound. He runs away and strives to survive, encountering others like himself.
NEW Official Website,
http://onebook4teens.nebraska.gov/unwind/, for details about the book
and the author, and to access resources. You can submit book reviews, video
book talks, fan fiction,
artwork, and poetry,
anything related to
Unwind. Work must be original.
Neal Shusterman (author of our One Book for Nebraska Teens 2010-2011, Unwind)
Visited Nebraska!
Website:
http://www.storyman.com
Video by Neal Shusterman on
Unwind:
http://www.storyman.com/books/unwind.html?animate=1 (and scroll down)
Fan page:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Neal-Shusterman/75447650405
BLOG:http://nstoryman.wordpress.com
Here are some
PDF files to help you setup a book discussion:
Puzzles:
Activities
Author Information
Discussion Questions
Clueless Crossword,
Answers
Crossword,
Answers
Word Search,
Answers
Tile Puzzle,
Answer
Posters:
Customizable poster, legal size
Customizable poster, letter size
Websites:
Websites for Unwind
Evaluations:
Adult Evaluation
Teen Evaluation
Teen Leader Evaluation
One Book For Nebraska Kids 2009-2010
The Green Glass Sea by
Ellen Klages
This year's book was aimed at upper elementary age Nebraska children, grades
4-6. It is about Dewey Kerrigan, 11,
who travels to New Mexico in 1943 and meets up with her father, who lives on a
secret base and is working on a top
secret project with a number of other scientists, including J. Robert
Oppenheimer.
Official Website,
http://onebook4kids.nebraska.gov/greenglasssea/,
for details about the book and the author, and to access resources.
Ellen Klages toured Nebraska in October 2009: Kimball, Scottsbluff,
Alliance, North Platte, Gothenburg, Grand Island, Hastings, Seward, Norfolk,
Prague, Clarkson, Wayne, West Point, Scribner, Louisville, Lincoln, Elmwood,
Plattsmouth, and Omaha.
Here are some PDF files to help you setup a book discussion:
Activities
Author Information
Clueless Crossword Puzzle
/
Answers
Definitive Puzzler /
Answer
Discussion Questions
Recommended Web Pages
World Search Puzzle,
/
Answers
Student Evaluation
Leader Evaluation
One Book For Nebraska Teens 2008-2009
The Book Thief
by
Markus Zusak
Narrated by Death,
The Book Thief tells of Liesel (age 10 at the beginning of the book), who travels to Molching, Germany to live with foster parents; and the effects World War II has on the home front in Germany, and on the people the Nazis are rounding up. To cope, Liesel begins to steal books, even before she has learned to read.
Here are some PDF files to help you setup a book discussion:
Crossword,
Answer
Cryptogram,
Answer
Discussion Questions,
Tile Puzzle,
Answer
Word Search
Answer
One Book For Nebraska Kids 2007-2008
Rescue Josh McGuire by
Ben Mikaelsen
This year's book is aimed at fourth to sixth graders. It is about a boy who
risks a lot to try to rescue a bear cub.
Here are some
PDF files to help you setup a book discussion:
Flyer,
Details
Puzzles:
Word Search,
Word Search Answers
Clueless Crossword,
Clueless Crossword Answers
Acrostic Puzzle,
Acrostic Puzzle Answers
Acrostic Crossword Puzzle,
Acrostic Crossword Puzzle Answers
Sponsored by the Nebraska Library Commission & the
Regional Library Systems