Keep Reading This Summer with New Abe Lincoln and RFL Books

Looking for some good books this summer? Check out the 2022-2023 Abraham Lincoln and the 2022-2023 Read for a Lifetime books. Then sign up to participate in the Abe Lincoln and RFL programs in the BW Library when school starts in August.

2022-2023 ABRAHAM LINCOLN BOOKS

Ace of Spades by Faridah Abike-Iyimide

How it All Blew Up by Arvin Ahmadi

Love from A to Z by S.K. Ali

Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley

We are Not Free by Traci Chee

Legendborn by Tracey Deonn

Not so Pure and Simple by Lamar Giles

Almost American Girl: An Illustrated Memoir by Robin Ha

Grown by Tiffany Jackson

Tokyo Ever After by Jean Emiko

You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson

Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe

Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger

Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo

Furia by Yamile Saied Mendez

The Loop by Ben Oliver

Game Changer by Neal Shusterman

Today Tonight Tomorrow by Rachel Lynn Solomon

Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas

Check, Please by Ngozi Ukazu

2022-2023 READ FOR A LIFETIME BOOKS

All of Us Villains by Amanda Foody and Christine Lynn Herman

All Systems Red by Martha Wells

An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir

Be Not Far from Me by Molly McGinnis

Black Birds in the Sky by Brandy Colbert

Black Girl Unlimited by Echo Brown

Call Us What We Carry by Amanda Gorman

Charming as a Verb by Ben Philippe

Cinderella is Dead by Kalynn Bayron

The Cousins by Karen M. McManus

Defy the Night by Brgid Kemmerer

Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley

From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry by Paula Yoo

Ground Zero by Alan Gratz

I Must Betray You by Ruta Sepetys

If You’re Reading This by Trent Reedy

In the Wild Light by Jeff Zentner

Kneel by Candace Buford

Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi

These Deadly Games by Diana Urban

This Poisonous Heart by Kalynn Bayron

Unpregnant by Jenni Hendriks and Ted Caplan

The Voting Booth by Brandy Colbert

We are Not from Here by Jenny Torres Sanchez

White Smoke by Tiffany D. Jackson

West Students Read More than Four Million Pages for Pleasure

The BW English Department challenged the freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior classes to each read ONE MILLION PAGES of pleasure reading during this school year.  How did they do?

Together, Belleville West students read 4,169,249 pages of pleasure reading in the 2021-2022 school year!  What does that mean?

If those pages were set out end-to-end, they would stretch 560 miles.  That’s all the way from Belleville to Atlanta!

If you read one page per minute, it would take 2,895 days (that’s almost eight years) to read that many pages—without any breaks to eat or sleep.

If you had a penny for every page that Belleville West students read this year, you would have more than $41,692.

How did the classes stack up against each other?

The FRESHMAN CLASS finished the year with 1,106,745 pages of pleasure reading.  The freshmen read 151,104 pages in the sixth triad, an average of 296 pages per freshman.  These freshman classes read the most pages per student in the final triad:

Ms. Comley, first hour – 912 pages per student

Ms. Comley, fifth hour – 769 pages per student

Ms. Thurnau, fourth hour – 608 pages per student

Mr. Herron, sixth hour – 602 pages per student

Ms. Comley, second hour – 469 pages per student

Ms. Kurtz, first hour – 391 pages per student

Ms. Thurnau, second hour – 303 pages per student

The SENIOR CLASS finished the year with 1,076,240 pages of pleasure reading.  The seniors read 134,522 pages in the sixth triad, an average of 376 pages per senior.  These senior classes read the most pages per student in the final triad:

Ms. Thurnau, first hour – 1374 pages per student

Mr. Lodle, sixth hour – 1231 pages per student

Mr. Lodle, fifth hour – 561 pages per student

Mr. Brunner, fifth hour – 398 pages per student

Mr. Riedelberger, third hour – 309 pages per student

Mrs. Story, third hour – 290 pages per student

The SOPHOMORE CLASS finished the year with 1,055,075 pages of pleasure reading.  The sophomores read 179,387 pages in the sixth triad, an average of 402 pages per sophomore.  These sophomore classes read the most pages per student in the final triad:

Mr. Johnson, fourth hour – 1457 pages per student

Ms. Schloesser, seventh hour – 825 pages per student

Ms. Schloesser, sixth hour – 526 pages per student

Ms. Schloesser, third hour – 581 pages per student

Ms. Chalmers, second hour – 413 pages per student

Ms. Chalmers, first hour – 353 pages per student

Mr. Johnson, fifth hour – 349 pages per student

Mr. Reidelberger, second hour – 334 pages per student

Mr. Reidleberger, sixth hour – 327 pages per student

The JUNIOR CLASS finished the year with 931,189 pages of pleasure reading.  The juniors read 133,485 pages in the sixth triad, an average of 324 pages per junior.  These junior classes read the most pages per student in the final triad:

Mr. Garland, first hour – 742 pages per student

Mr. Schobert, second hour – 585 pages per student

Ms. Chalmers, fourth hour – 583 pages per student

Mr. Garland, third hour – 565 pages per student

Mr. Garland, second hour – 556 pages per student

Ms. Chalmers, seventh hour – 524 pages per student

Mr. Brunner, second hour – 520 pages per student

Mr. Brunner, first hour – 482 pages per student

Ms. Chalmers, sixth hour – 473 pages per student

Mr. Schobert, fifth hour – 472 pages per student

CONGRATULATIONS to all four classes!  Keep reading this summer!