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Welcome to Books in the Wild
Books in the Wild is an exciting online reading programme made especially for west
Auckland’s teenagers. It is a free reading programme for year 9-13 students who
attend high school in west Auckland. To participate in the programme you need to
take a few moments to join up and select a username and password. It’s really easy!
Once again, there are some awesome prizes up for grabs, including a competition
set to test your skills – Read the book? Now answer the Question!
Here’s how it works...
The three R's of Books in the wild:
Read a Books in the Wild Book
Register it online
Release it for someone else to find and read. Hand it
to a friend, use the swap table or take it back to your school library.
Loads of books will be released throughout west Auckland high schools at the end
of June/beginning of July 2011. Your challenge is to hunt them down, read them,
register them on this website, answer the question, then release the book back into
the wild for someone else to read.
Wicked prizes up for grabs!
There are some wicked prizes up for grabs. Get in quick for the Participant Prize
Draw in August. One lucky winner at each participating high school will
get their hands on a prize. To be in to win, you need to have read and registered
at least one book on the Books in the Wild site at the time of the draw. It’s that
simple!
Visit your local library and win! Make sure you get in to your local library
heaps and record your visits in the Log Book. The student who records the most visits
wins an amazing prize. There will be one lucky winner at each of the seven participating
west Auckland libraries.
Read the book? Now answer the Question! Get yourself in the running for the
grand prizes by registering as many books as you can and answering the questions
about them. There will be a fantastic prize at each participating high school for
the person who answers the most questions correctly (if there is a tie, then those
names will be put in a draw to find the winner).
School Prizes. For the schools there are two competition prize categories
- the school with the highest percentage of participants, and the school who has
the biggest percentage increase of participants from the last year. Winning schools
will receive book vouchers for the library.
Books in the Wild is a local reading programme run by Auckland Libraries that is
similar to BookCrossing; the world’s biggest free book club! Anyone can join the
hundreds of thousands of can join the hundreds of thousands of BookCrossing members
around the world. Go BookCrossing members around the world. Go to
www.bookcrossing.com to check it out.
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