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Thanks to our primary sponsor, Dr. Robert Collier. Dr. Collier has donated thousands of dollars to fund BookFest to honor his wife, Barbara M. Collier, who taught hundreds of area children to love reading.

Many thanks also to the Kentucky Council of Teachers of English/ Language Arts, who have so generously contributed to BookFest's "Write on Your Feet" contest for three years.

DARRIN MCMILLEN
LITERATURE & LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT LANDRUM ACADEMIC CENTER 217K
NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY HIGHLAND HEIGHTS, KY 41099
(859) 572-5896

mcmillend@nku.edu

Featured Author 2009: Shelley Pearsell

Read these books to attend BookFest

May 22, 2009

5th & 6th graders:
Lawn Boy

Crooked River

All of the Above

Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Walk Two Moons

Demon Keeper

7th & 8th-graders:

Twilight

Alabama Moon

Crooked River

Rules of the Road

The Wednesday Wars

How it all began

BookFest was born in 2001 when a group of middle school and high school language arts teachers in Northern Kentucky, along with college English professors, decided to create a special day for middle school students to celebrate reading and writing.

Our goals are to give young people the opportunity to experience the following:

	practice writing and to expand vocabulary;
	to share ideas about books;
	to participate in workshops with experts on important themes;
	and to win awards and recognition for their accomplishments in reading and writing.

Students must read several books before attending BookFest on the campus of Northern Kentucky University. There, they participate in competitions and workshops about their readings, win prizes and have fun. Most of all, we want to offer these students a day to have fun and learn at the same time. We hope that BookFest will continue to bring young people to campus to share their love of reading and writing for many years to come.

BookFest Winners Each year, students win hundreds of dollars during BookFest's competitions and games. They win for their recall of the books, for their abilty to write on deadline, for their writing skills, for their imagination. Generous sponsors donate the gifts.		Barbara M. Collier Mrs. Collier is the reason that BookFest exists.Read about her life and work, and about how her husband, Robert Collier, a literature professor at Northern Kentucky University, has supported BookFest in her memory.