Blind Date with a Book

Thank you to all the students who have participated in Blind Date with a Book.  We are still waiting for many books to be returned and rated. So far, about 50 students have returned their rate your date cards and this is what we learned about their Blind Dates.

More than half of the participants have made a friend and a whopping ⅓ of the students have found a soulmate.  What a month of book romance for the library! 

All Rating Cards are Due by Friday, March 6th.

In case you are wondering, the following books have been claimed as soulmates:

• I’d Tell You I Love You, but Then I’d Have to Kill You, by Ally Carter 

• Blue Fingers: A Ninja’s Tale, by Cheryl Aylward Whitesel

• A World Below, by Wesley King

• Stay Where You Are & Then Leave, by John Boyne

• Nest, by Esther Ehrlich (2 readers have claimed this as a soulmate)

• Leap of Faith by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

• Echo, by Franceska Lia Block

• A Long Walk to Water, by Linda Sue Park

• The Land of Forgotten Girls, by Erin Estrada Kelly

• Hate That Cat, Sharon Creech

• The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl, by Stacy McAnulty (2 students claimed this title as a soulmate, but another said there was no chemistry.)

• Allie Finkle’s Rules for Girls: Moving Day, by Meg Cabot

• George, by Alex Gino

• The Trials of Kate Hope, by Warwick Downing

This February

Go on a Blind Date with a Book

1.        Check out one of these wrapped blind dates.

2.        Read your surprise date.

3.        Remove and complete the “Rate your Date” card on the back cover.

4.        Return the Rating Form to Ms. Vintika, your Librarian, for a small post-Valentine’s Sweet Treat.

5.        Your Rating Form recommendation/comments might be displayed with your date for other students to read at a later time.