Wow! Talk about timing! Less than two hours after that last post, our gold medal winner Mikie (aka Lord Vader) came and picked up his prize! Here he is, showing off his ultra-hip and cool Joust Read T-shirt. He must have used The Force to sense that cyber kid had claimed his prizes. Good work, you two. Keep writing! Your reviews are always interesting and make me want to read the books you talk about.
I think cyber kid 303 must have tapped into the blog via his cybernetic links, for only 10 minutes after publishing that last post, here he was, claiming both his prizea!! How's that for good timing!! He must have jumped through hyperspace to get here! He's got the books Double Dare to be Scared and Matilda by Roald Dahl as well as his Max Axiom CD-ROM. Keep up the good work, cyber kid!
Well, he's new to us at Imaginon. This is Eshaan, who is a fan and came by the library and asked about a PJ book club. I had to tell him that we'd already had ours during the summer and maybe he could talk to one of the other libraries and see if they'd do one. BUT--since Mr. and Mrs. Riordan have been so generous, I was able to give him a cool Camp Half-Blood Tshirt!! Thank you, Mr. and Mrs. Riordan!! Hope you enjoy your shirt, Eshaan. Write to us sometime. You could get a free book!
And speaking of medals, it's time to give out the awards for the Boys Rule Boys Read Olympics of Reading! The gold goes to---ta ta ta daaa!!--Mikey, aka Lord Vader!! With 11 points (8 of them from nonfiction reviews!) he tore ahead of the pack like Usain Bolt. Come down to Imaginon and get your Joust Read T-shirt!
and get to choose one book from the giveaway shelves at Imagionon or Matthews! All right, guys,let's get to those keyboards and send in those reviews! The rules will stay the same except that we'll eliminate the Marathon category since cyber kid already reviewed HP and the DH. The rules (and the list) are on the side bar on the left-hand side of the page. Don't forget to use the format under those rules.
Whoa!!Mikey (aka Lord Vader) has come raoring back on the last day with not just one but FIVE reviews! Four of them are nonfiction. Let's see them:
Yes, we have a second entry in the Olympics of Reading. This one's from our old friend cyber kid 303. He's decided to enter the most difficult category, the Marathon--in other words, he reviewed Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and some people say reading that book is as long and painful as running 26 miles (right, Bill?). Here's what cyber kid has to say (BEWARE!! There's a spoiler alert, which means that he'll give some things away. DON'T READ AFTER THE SPOILER ALERT IF YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENS))
This is one of the truly grand and magnificent sports events of the world and, like the Final Four or the World Series, it never fails to provide drama and excitement. New heroes arise, old champions defend their titles, and some unknown athlete amazes us all. Something always happens at the Olympics that people talk about for years afterward. I really enjoy watching them. I hope you all do too. And, in honor of the Olympics, and because it's summer, the time to have fun, the Boys Rule Boys Read blog is proud to present 
Starting today and ending August 24 (the ending day of the Olympics), we'll give points for each review sent in. The three guys with the top three amount of points will win a Gold, a Silver, and a Bronze Medal.
We'll show you a close-up in another post--couldn't get the close-up to come out right.
(for giving us your best shot) This is the one-point category. You'll get one point for each review of a work of fiction. This could be a chapter book, a graphic novel, (not a comic book, but a graphic novel) or a paperback. Not some picture book, either! 
will be worth two points. This could any kind of nonfiction book--biography, history, science, sports, etc. BUT you CAN'T review some little 32-page book. We will know if you do! Read something worthy of you, me lads! There's a lot of good nonfiction out there, some of it as exciting as any fiction--or even more!! That's why we give this one more points; to prove that nonfiction is not boring. 
If you send us a review of something from that list of books on the left-hand side of the blog (the one that says, "Here's a list of all the books we've talked about..."), you'll get three points. We want all you guys to know about this list and see all the great books that are on it. The list is divided into 5 categories: Chapter Books, Series Paperbacks, Graphic Novels, Nonfiction, and Others. Each entry gives the title of the book, the author, and the date it was reviewed. That way you can go back and read the original review and see if it would something you'd like. If a book has more than one date to it, that means it's been reviewed more than once. BUT you CANNOT repeat a review you've already done or simply review again a book you've written about. NOPE!! The Olympics of Reading Watchdog Committee will catch you! You can review something that Bill or Carl or one of your fellow readers has talked about but you MUST NOT re-do your own work. You can't just find a review and retell it or paraphrase--you must READ the book and then tell us about it. And we will not accept reviews of books that have been reviewed more than once (like some the Harry Potter or Percy Jackson books) 
any review of a book over 300 pages will get your four points. Any book--fiction or nonfiction. Any book that heavy will build up your muscles!
this is a special category for anyone who can write a review of and convince us that you really have read Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Some people say reading that one is like running a marathon--it takes long time and it's painful! Anyone who can do this deserves five points!
