Welcome to the Rez Reader Challenge web site!
Let’s get excited about reading, just for the fun of it! For the remainder of the year, students and staff are challenged to read books & stories that fit into one of the 16 “Challenge” categories listed below (visit the library to see the full grid, including QR codes).
For every category you complete, you will receive an entry to the prize draw. If you complete any row/column/diagonal, you get a bonus entry. Complete all 16 challenges, and you get 5 bonus entries! At the end of every month, we’ll do a draw for some cool Phoenix swag…and at the end of the year, we’ll have a grand prize draw (prizes tbd…rumour has it that there may be pizza involved!).
You can keep track of your challenge on a paper copy in the library or use this Google doc (make a copy). **Make sure you share your copy with Ms. Martin so she can give you ballots to enter for prizes** Our first prize draw will happen at the end of April…so get reading Rez!
Here are the 16 categories of this year’s Rez Reader Challenge…if you click on the link, it will take you to a list of suggestions (you need to be logged into your school account to access). If you have a suggestion you’d like to add to a category, submit it using this Google form!
- A book that has been challenged/ banned in North America
- A favourite author’s favourite book
- A poetry collection OR verse novel
- A comic book/graphic novel by or about Indigenous people(s)
- A biography or memoir
- A re-telling/re-imagining of a classic
- A story in a “shortened” format (short story, novella, graphic novel, etc)
- A book/story (fiction/non-fiction featuring a neurodivergent person
- A book set in a country you’ve never visited
- A book about books/writing (fiction or non-fiction)
- A book (fiction/non-fiction) written by a BIPOC or queer author
- An “other worldly” book (fiction or non-fiction) – space, time-travel, alternate universes, etc.)
- A picture book published in the last 5 years
- An award-winning book from the year you were born
- A book/story written by/featuring a person with a disability
- A book that fits in a FOLD challenge category (pick any month)
Frequently Asked Questions
Here are some points of clarification. If you have more questions, come to the library or email Ms. Martin.
Q: Do audiobooks count?
A: Yes! Check out the selection on SORA or ask Ms. Martin if you don’t see the book you’d like.
Q: Can I count one book or story in multiple boxes?
A: Nope—BUT you can always shift boxes as you discover and read new books!
