Georgia Peach Book Award for Teen Readers

The nominees for next year's Georgia Peach Book Award have now been announced. The committee met yesterday and released the titles. It was my third and final year serving on this committee, and as always, it was a great day of talking about books. Galloway has almost all of these in the library now, so feel free to come and get them. Take a closer look on our library Pinterest board.

Reading Bowl Teams Compete

The ML Team: Anna, Talia, Rachel, Ms. Kochel, Ethan, Emi,
Ms. Hunter, and Julia

On Saturday, January 24, Galloway's ML and UL Reading Bowl Teams competed in the Fulton County Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl Competition at Riverwood High School. ML was respresented by a team made up of four sixth graders and two eighth graders. The ML team won several rounds and took fifth place out of 14 teams.

The UL Team: Cameron, Sophia, Molly, John, and Jennifer

The UL team, consisting of five UL students, took fourth place in the high school division. All the team members read some new and interesting books and enjoyed spending the day with other students who love to read.

Reading Bowl Teams

The ML Team ready to compete

Galloway had three reading bowl teams compete last Saturday, Jan. 11 in the Fulton County Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl competition. Our elementary team, made up of fourth and fifth graders, took second place and is advancing to the next level of competition. Congratulations to them and Ms. Zupancic! Our ML and UL teams did not win, but they had a great time and read a lot of books. Special thanks to our first-ever UL team for fearlessly taking part in the reading bowl without a lot of coaching. Thank you to Ms. Emmons for co-coaching and Ms. Chapman for volunteering at the competition.

The UL Team