Books Rule in Middle School
(BRIMS)
2019-20
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Members 2019-20
BRiMS is a group of middle school students who love books and reading. Meetings are held on Wednesdays during the last week of the month at lunch time, and a special snack is always provided. BRiMS was formed on February 29, 2012.
Meeting Dates and topics:
August 28th -- Share a book that you think other members might want to read
September 25th -- The Girl in the Locked Room by Mary Downing Hahn
October 30th -- Choose a book to scare you: Horror, Thriller or Suspense
December 4th -- Virtual visit with Nikki Loftin
December 18th -- Discuss plans for future BRiMS meetings
January 29th -- My Life with the Liars by Caela Carter
February 19th --
March 18th --
August 28th -- Share a book that you think other members might want to read
September 25th -- The Girl in the Locked Room by Mary Downing Hahn
October 30th -- Choose a book to scare you: Horror, Thriller or Suspense
December 4th -- Virtual visit with Nikki Loftin
December 18th -- Discuss plans for future BRiMS meetings
January 29th -- My Life with the Liars by Caela Carter
February 19th --
March 18th --
October 30. 2019
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The members were tasked with reading a book that was scary. It seems that many were not fond of horror as a genre. One student had read Frankenstein and told the group how the monster wasn't the one to fear in the story but rather the scientist who created him. Another read a book called Rated that he bought from our book fair. This book is a dystopian novel, and the world where the characters lived was pretty scary. Others agreed that they could handle dystopian stories much better than horror. Hahn's book, Wait Till Helen Comes was shared by another. This book is touted as a ghost story, but the reader said she liked the book and was not very scared.
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September 2, 2019
Mary Downing Hahn is known for writing ghost stories geared to middle grade readers that offer some sense of the unknown and otherworldly but not terrifying. The Girl in the Locked Room is just that. Some members found the book very slow at the beginning and did not finishit because they felt the book was boring. Others just did not like the genre so choose not to read it. There was a small group who felt let down because the book was not scary enough but another group liked the book because it was not too scary. Some expected the usual plot twists by Hahn that never materialized here.
August 28, 2019
For the first meeting of the year, students were asked to bring in a book that they would recommend others to read. Twenty-eight of the 30 members showed up for this meeting which is an amazing turn out. Since we wanted to give everyone an opportunity to share, the members were asked to tell us the title and author of their book and to share one thing that made this book a good read. On the left are some of the books that they recommended. Reasons for liking a book ran the gamut, but action and fast-paced were words that were said over and over again about various titles. Other reasons for liking a book included liking the internal conflict of the main character like in Matched, the fantasy elements found in Girl Who Drank the Moon and Circus Mirandus, and the clever resolution in The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. There were titles that came up more than once like Refugee. There were few books mentioned that are not available in the PFTSTA Library. So visit the library soon to check out one of these great titles.