Student Resources

Read from home with our GPAEA Resources! Students will be given access to a user name and password to use MackinVIA and other reading resources. Select the photo, left, to link to the sign-in page.

Email anna.westermeyer@keokukschools.org for more information.

"To encourage the joy of reading, the Foundation has developed the Mensa for Kids Excellence in Reading Program. Earn a commemorative certificate in recognition of your outstanding achievement and get an Excellence in Reading T-shirt, too!

The Mensa Foundation recognizes and encourages education, gifted youth and lifelong learning through resources like the Mensa for Kids website and other programs for youth and those who support them. This program is open internationally to any and all readers under 18 years of age, their teachers and librarians."

Select the icon, left, for a link to the 7th and 8th grade lists.

"TIME compiled this survey in consultation with respected peers such as U.S. Children’s Poet Laureate Kenn Nesbitt, children’s-book historian Leonard Marcus, the National Center for Children’s Illustrated Literature, the Young Readers Center at the Library of Congress, the Every Child a Reader literacy foundation and 10 independent booksellers. With their help, we’ve created two all-time lists of classics: 100 Best Young-Adult Books and 100 Best Children’s Books."

Please click here to see Children's Middle Grade bestsellers and here to see Young Adult bestsellers.

Know that bestsellers are only on this list based on the amount of books sold; therefore, these books should be considered more for their popularity than their scholarly merit.