Take the WrestleMania Reading Challenge!

October 18-January 18

Each student’s responsible for reading a combination of 10 books and/or magazines. Students who turn in their completed reading logs (pdf) will receive a WWE miniposter. Students then have the option of entering a bookmark contest (pdf). Libraries will then choose the best bookmark submitted from each age group (grades 5-6, grades 7-8, grades 9-12). A panel of judges will choose 15 finalists, five from each grade category and different regions of the country. The 7th through 12th graders will go on to compete in the national finals in Houston, the host-city of WrestleMania XXV. This event is sponsored by the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA).

5th – 12th grade

Survival, adventures and mystery reads for those wanting a little more excitement in your lives!

Darkwing

By Kenneth Oppel

Dusk, the world's first bat must lead his colony to safety in a time of changing species.

Raptor

By Paul Zindel

Zach and his Ute Indian friend find themselves trapped in a cave with a living dinosaur-the deadly Utahraptor.

So Yesterday

By Scott Westerfield

Hunter Braque, a New York teenager who is paid by corporations to spot what is "cool" combines his analytical skills with girlfriend Jen's creative talents to find a missing person and thwart a conspiracy directed at the heart of the consumer culture.

Captives

By Tom Pow

When two families are kidnapped while vacationing in the Caribbean, they come to understand something of the island's political backdrop and the events that fuel their captor's actions.

Tunnels

By Roderick Gordon

When Will Burrows and his friend Chester embark on a quest to find Will's archaeologist father, who has inexplicably disappeared, they are led to a labyrinthine world underneath London, full of sinister inhabitants with evil intentions toward "Topsoilers" like Will and his father.

Adventurer's Wanted-Slathbog's Gold

By Mark Foreman

When fifteen year old orphan Alex Taylor sees, an odd sign in a shop window and goes inside to investigate, he is sent on a quest to defeat evil dragon and in the process he confronts his fears and learns about his future and his past.

The Chaos Code

By Justin Richards

Fifteen year old Matt and his new friend Robin search the globe to retrieve an ancient code-rumored to have brought down ancient civilization of Atlantis-from the hands of a madman who is bent on destroying the modern world.

Shadowed Summer

By Saundra Mitchell

In the small town of Ondine, Louisiana, fourteen year old Iris uncovers family secrets when she conjures up the ghost of a boy missing for decades and decides to solve the mystery of his disappearance.

The Great Wide Sea

By Madaline Herlong

Still mourning the death of their mother, three brothers go with their father on an extended sailing trip off the Florida Keys and have a harrowing adventure at sea.

The Big Empty

By J. B. Stephens

After half of the world's population is killed by a plague, seven teenagers seek a better life in a nightmarish future by deciphering coded messages and trying to avoid the slashers.

The First Escape

By G. P. Taylor

At Isambard Dunstan's School for Wayward Children life is trouble for fourteen year old identical twins, Sadie and Saskia Dopple and their friend Erik Morrissey Ganger, but when a mysterious woman adopts Saskia and takes her to a mansion filled with secrets and threats, Sadie and Erik escape the orphanage to save her.

The Kiln

By Jennifer Armstrong

After a virus destroys most of the world's adult population, a band of children travels in search of an explanation for the dark mystery that forms the heart of their existence.