Mineola Library's 2012 FALL Reading Challenge discussion

YouTube Summer Fun


For several years I taught Language Arts to Junior High Students. They loved watching YouTube videos between classes or during lunch. Enjoy some favorites here, and read 2 books, each from a different option.

Top 5 YouTube videos:

1. Uh-Huh Slow , Uh-Huh Fast
The fast version is by far the most popular video! My students would be in fits and giggles by the middle, and falling out of their chair laughing by the end. I didn't think it was that funny, but my students would beg to watch it again and again.

Since this was really 2 similar videos, read a book that focuses on 2 main characters that are the same sex. It should be clear in the Goodreads description that the book is about 2 boys or 2 girls.
For example:

For example:Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Someone Like You, Animal Farm, Will Grayson Will Grayson, The Chosen, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, A Separate Peace, Firefly Lane

2. People are Awesome
The boys loved this video! I'd hear 'Whoa!' when the baseball player rotates the bat, or the guy with 3 basketballs removes his hat.
Read a fiction or non-fiction book featuring one of the sports or activities in this video: Special Olympics, rollerblading, basketball, soccer, biking, gymnastics, daredevil stunts, tennis, bowling, skiing, snowboarding, skateboarding, baseball, diving, golfing, karate, table tennis.


3. This Too Shall Pass
Many of my students had never seen a Rube Goldberg Machine! Since this is a video about letting things go, read a book by a deceased author.
Required: Post the author's date of death.

4. A Day in the Life of a Korean Student
If you are a student anywhere, I'm sure you can relate.
Read a fiction or non-fiction book about North or South Korea Or a book that has a main character attending High School full-time; the book should be set during the school year, but does not have to involve school.
For example,Nothing to Envy Ordinary Lives in North Korea(North Korea) Please Look After Mom (South Korea), Twilight (in school)

5. Annoying Orange
After watching this video the boys would greet me with "Wasssabi!" The girls had fun with the adjective 'annoying', and most students learned the names of various fruits!
Read a book with a fruit on the cover or a fruit in the title/subtitle/author's name. Plurals and possessives are ok, but nothing else. Here's a list of fruits. If doing the cover option, please post a link to the cover.

4. A Day in the Life of a Korean Student
a main character attending High School full-time;

The Lost Boy: A Foster Child’s Search for the Love of a Family (David Peizer #2)
Peizer, Dave 352 pages

This is the sequel to “A Child Called It”. It continues the story of a little boy who was viciously abused by his mother. It follows Dave in his journey through the foster care system as he tries to obtain some sense of stability and worth.
An autobiography told from a pre-teen/teen’s point of view, this book depicts both the good and the bad aspects of the foster care system.

5. Annoying Orange
a fruit on the cover or a fruit in the title/.


Braun, Lillian Jackson 294 pages


The books in this series fall in the “Cozy Mystery” catergory. The town of Pickax is celebrating the opening of a new bookstore and the new performance theater. As usual, Qwill’s cat Koko drops hints about the death of an out-of-town actor and the theft of a rare book.