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Students who read 3 or more nominated books may vote in February, and students who read 5 or more qualify to participate in the Rooster Games (more info on that to come). To give everyone a head start, I'll be reading a few of the shorter nominees to each class.
One of these shorter books is Whoosh! Lonnie Johnson's Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions. Most kids enjoyed the story; here are some reasons they gave:
- It shows what kids can do.
- Lonnie followed his dreams.
- He always has new ideas in his mind.
- The sound effects ("whooooosh!") were cool.
- It has facts.
- It had good illustrations.
- It inspires kids to be imaginative and to invent new things.
- He worked with NASA.
- An accident can become the most popular toy in the U.S.
- He didn't mean to invent the Super Soaker.
- It explained the life of a genius, but also had a moral.
- I love reading about other people's lives.
- It's about an invention that I've used before.
- It told a story of hard work.
- I like Super Soakers.
- I like inventing stuff too.
- He had many problems and he solved them.
- I also like engineering.
- It was inspiring to never give up and believe in your dreams.
