This post isn't about books on leprechauns 🍀or basketball🏀. It is about March Book Madness: a reading challenge for kids to choose a winner/best book out of an original challenge of 16 books. There are many different iterations of the bracket-based challenge online, but one of the best is at this website. (Spoiler alert: the results of the first round have already been posted in this contest). This 2017 version offers two brackets: one for middle grade books; and one for picture books.
Some of the terrific match-ups include books like Absolutely Almost by Lisa Graf facing off against Crenshaw by Katherine Applegate. How can anyone choose between those two contenders? I think I'm giving Absolutely Almost a very slight edge. How about a final match up between The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley and A Night Divided by Jennifer Nielsen? Impossible to handicap that choice! At our school, students will be able to vote two ways: they can turn in a bracket sheet once a week with any choices filled out on pairs of books they have read. If a kid has read all 16 books, they may fill out an entire bracket sheet, and we will pit against each other in a special contest. I can't wait to see how this all works out!
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