MARCH IS FOR MYSTERIES GRADE 6 BOOK TALKS 2018

The Bogo book fair is coming!!! The fair will be held April 16th-April 20th! All items are Buy One Get One Free!!!

Canned by Alex Shearer What do you collect? Coins? Sports cards? Stamps? How about cans? Our main character Fergal is considered ‘gifted’ by family and friends He begins a can collection, spending free time scouring bargain bins for perfectly imperfect cans His parents tell him he can only have 50 cans at a time so he is forced to open 1….and what he finds is utterly ‘disgusting and diabolical’ Join Fergal and his new friend (and fellow can collector) Charlotte as their “collection” leads them to unsolving a serious mystery!

The westing Game Ellen Raskin This murder mystery takes place at Sunset Towers-an ‘exclusive’ apartment complex where our cast of characters are invited to live Our main character is Turtle Wexler, a young girl who is forced to live in the shadow of her ‘perfect’ sister Angela The characters (all sixteen of them!) are invited to play a game (solve the murder of Samuel Westing) with 200 million dollars up for grabs…who will win? Would you play the Westing Game? Great for fans of Clue (movie and game) and for those who love a good, bumbling mystery!

The Bermuda Triangle The area of the Bermuda Triangle covers roughly 500,000 square miles and lies between Miami Beach, Puerto Rico, and Bermuda Theories: freak storms, giant waves, strange fogs & gases, force fields…and even alien abductions! Case of Flight 19, the ship Ellen Austin and many other mysteries are discussed The book also discusses the science behind the theories, following the scientific method Read this book, and many like it, if you want to learn about real life MYSTERIES