2019 Winners and Runner Ups

The 2019 Winners

McDougle Elementary – When You Reach Me and Hoot

Team Info: McDougle Elementary School Lisa Myles Allison, Will, Shanti, Elly, and Mimi Summary of Novel: When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead When You Reach Me is a mystery novel about Miranda and her journey through seventh grade. Obstacles that Miranda faces are...

Self Delusion

Team Info: Newton-Conover HIgh School Team 1 Ms. Rayfield Jonathan Tramel/Challenge Three Summary of Novel: 1984 Written By: George Orwell             In George Orwell's 1984, Winston Smith wrestles with oppression in Oceania, a place under the ever watchful eye of...

Piano Gloves

By Tyler Brewer Book Summary Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse A terrible accident has affected Billie Jo’s life in a horrible way. Her mother is gone and her father will not take care of her. The one thing that might make her feel better is playing the piano, but she...

Quarter Past Climate Change

Team Info: Cape Hatteras Elementary School, 2nd Grade in Buxton, NC.  Sponsor Teacher - Ms. Kristin Gray Summary of Novel:   Afternoon on the Amazon- Summary By Mary Pope Osborne Jack and Annie are a brother and sister that go on adventures and solve riddles.  In...

The 2019 Runner Ups

Challenge 1

Team Info:Carver ElementaryMs. HaleOlivia and Victoria Summary of Novel:Hatchet SummaryThis book is about a 13 year old boy named Bryan Roberson who is own his way to see his dad in Canada when all of a sudden the pilot has a heart attack and Bryan is forced to land...

Putting Movement Back into Gaming

Team Info: Team name: Newton-Conover High School Team 2 Sponsor Name: Ms. Rayfield Participating students: Michael Leatherman/Challenge Three Summary of Novel: “Ready Player One” by Ernest Cline             Ready Player One is a story of a boy named Wade Watts who...

Positively Izzy and Wish

by Audrey Elliott                                        Positively Izzy Brianna wanted her mom and dad to be together to help her with the talent show but she can’t make that happen by herself. So she found a way for both parents to help her. Then she got her parents...

Forever, or a Long Long Time

By Harper HelmsForever, or a Long, Long Time by Caela Carter is about a girl named Flora and her younger brother Julian that are foster kids. They never really felt like they had a true home or did they fill loved. The book leads you through the journey of them being...

2018 Winners and Runner Ups

Winners

Water on Wheels

Team Info: Alana Deryn Summary of Novel: A Long Walk to Water by : Linda Sue Park is an amazing book about a boy named Salva and he was stuck in his village during a war and runs away. Also, she writes about a girl named Nya that has to walk 8 hours every day to get...

Challenge #2 Coping with Loss: Sal and Billie Jo Meet

HES Cubcat Team Members:  Eliie, Ellery, Charles, Elijah, Alex, John, Henry, and Rodney Team Facilitator: April Summey Please click here to see our Storyboard. We created a Storyboard where Sal, from Walk Two Moons, and Billie Jo, from Out of the Dust meet.  Both of...

McDougle Elementary School – Wonder

Team Info: McDougle Elementary School Lisa Myles Elly, Paige, Siena, Sam, Adam, Allison Summary of Novel: Wonder, by R.J Palacio, is about a boy named August, also known as Auggie,  who has a facial disorder known as Treacher Collins syndrome.  Throughout the novel,...

Cubi’s Secret Finder

Team Info: Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools Team Name -  Waddell Language Academy Sponsor Teacher- Stacey Hoy Participating students- Avery Fleming and Colby Luke-Judy Summary of Novel: Ben and Rose are children from two different eras who secretly wish that their lives...

Poison Protection Class: Dead End in Norvelt

Team: Fluffy Bunny Productions Challenge: #3 Middle School Team Members: Sophia Nall, Macianna Kiefer Teacher: Kim Wagner, Hendersonville Middle School     “Dead End in Norvelt” by Jack Gantos, is the story of a young boy named Jack, who is grounded for the...

Runner Ups

A Dog’s Purpose Pet Vending Machine

Problem- Starvation of strays Solution- A Dog’s Purpose Pet Vending Machine for Stray Animals Creators- Samantha Packard and Jill Hines, Grover C. Fields Middle School, New Bern, NC   The machines are placed around town and volunteers place food in the food slots...

A Drawing Machine

Team Info: Team Name HES Cubcats Sponsor Teacher Susan Newman/Brooke Lawson Participating students: Emily Coren, Jack Dyer, Xavier Gilbert, Riley Hernandez Summary of Novel: The Invention of Hugo Cabret Hugo is an orphan who lives in the walls of a train...

McDougle Elementary School – Becoming Naomi Leon

Team Info: McDougle Elementary School Lisa Myles Elly, Paige, Adam, Allison, Sam, Siena Summary of Novel: Becoming Naomi Leon, by Pam Munoz Ryan, is about a girl named Naomi Soledad Leon Outlaw.  She lives with her little brother Owen and Gram at Avocado Acres Trailer...

Katelyn’s Global Solution

Challenge #3 Create a solution to a local or global issue using a character from your favorite book. Character: Mona Lisa Book: Mona Lisa Darkening   by: Sunny Mona Lisa, and her 4 lovers, could most likely solve the global problem with terrorism but using their...

STOP BULLYING — No Matter Who You Are!

Challenge:  #3 Elementary School Name:  Glenn C. Marlow Elementary Team Members:  Alex and Ezekiel Group Facilitators:  Karen Whiting and Lynne Fender Book Summaries: Number the Stars by Lois Lowry is a book about two girls, Anne Marie and Ellen, who struggle to...

Problem Solution Comic Strips

Challenge 2 collection of student work 6th graders read a variety of novels and identified problems. They created comic strips using Storyboardthat.com. Their comics show how characters from different novels worked together to solve problems.

CVS Challenge #1

Team Info: Team 1: Double A  Teacher: Paula Fox Participating Students: Addison and Anna  Summary and Connection to the Conflict                      Wonder, The Hired Girl, and The Inventions of Hugo Cabaret all have a bully problem. In Wonder Aggie Pullman (the main...