Hundreds of Students Vie for Crown in Annual Name That Book Contest
Popular lines from movies are quoted every day in regular conversation, and most people know where those phrases originated. If you’ve ever heard, “There’s no place like home,” or “Here’s looking at you, kid,” you can probably “name that movie.”
In the same fashion, HISD’s Library Services Department has been challenging students in grades K–12 to “Name That Book” for years—and they do so in an overwhelming fashion!
More than 1,000 students participated in the 2010 Name That Book contest, which is divided into four levels: Lower Elementary (Grades K–2), Upper Elementary (Grades 3–6), Middle School (Grades 7 and 8), and High School (Grades 9–12). Students who join their school’s Name That Book team started preparing for the spring competition in August, reading 30 or more books that included everything from classics to new fiction and non-fiction.
This year, 196 teams competed in a preliminary contest, where groups of five or six students listened intently for quotes to be read, wrote their answers on a dry erase board in 45 seconds or less, or found the cover of the books in their booklet in the K–2 contest. The teams with the most answers correct out of 25 quotes advanced to the finals, where they were challenged with 25 new quotes.
The Name That Book winners for 2010 are:
Lower Elementary (Grades K–2)
First Place: T.H. Rogers Elementary
Second Place: Lovett Elementary
Third Place: Bush Elementary
Upper Elementary (Grades 3–6)
First Place: Roberts Elementary
Second Place: Horn Academy
Third Place: Lovett Elementary
Middle School (Grades 7 and 8)
First Place: Hamilton Middle School
Second Place: T.H. Rogers Middle School
Third Place: Pershing Middle School
High School (Grades 9–12)
First Place: High School for the Performing and Visual Arts
Second Place: Lamar High School
Third Place: DeBakey High School for Health Professions
HISD extends its thanks to Barnes and Noble bookstores, which generousely underwrote The Name That Book finals again this year. Prizes were provided in the form of gift cards to each member of the first-, second-, and third-place teams in the amounts of $300, $150, and $50 (respectively) at the high-school level, and $50, $25, and $15 (respectively) at the middle-school level.
Book lists for the 2010–2011 Name That Book contests are available online for students who wish to get a head start on their reading over the summer.
For more information, contact Library Services at 713-861-1204.
