On Tuesday, May 3, our 2nd and 3rd grade luchadores gathered together for one last battle, answering questions about Neil Gaiman’s hilarious book Fortunately, the Milk / El galáctico, pirático y alienígena viaje de mi padre. After answering the questions, each kid got tickets for our prize table. The children […]
Lucha Libros: April Battle, Stink the Incredible Shrinking Kid
Published on :We read and tested on another Megan McDonald book for Lucha Libros this month: Stink, The Incredible Shrinking Kid / Stink el increíble niño menguante. The book wasn’t a hard read, but a few of the questions were. It’s that these kids are doing so well, I have to throw in a […]
Lucha Libros: Judy Moody Girl Detective by Megan McDonald
Published on :This month we answered questions about Judy Moody, Girl Detective / Judy Moody es detective by Megan McDonald. We had three new families join the group tonight! It’s nice to see the program grow. The new kids did a very good job too. Everybody did. The bonus round this time […]
Lucha Libros: Big Nate in a Class By Himself
Published on :Tonight, kids came to Central Library to answer questions about the book Big Nate: In a Class By Himself by Lincoln Peirce. Before we started our battle, our very own “Big Nate” showed what makes him “surpass all others”–his MAD RUBIX CUBE SKILLZ!! Teen volunteer Nathan demonstrated he can solve a […]
Lucha Libros: Ramona the Pest
Published on :On Tuesday night, January 5th, kids came to the Donald R. Wright Auditorium to do battle in Lucha Libros and answer questions about the book Ramona the Pest by Beverly Cleary. The questions are always in English and Spanish because the books are, too! Many kids come to us from the […]
Lucha Libros: Bunnicula
Published on :Kids came to Central Library’s Donald Wright Auditorium tonight to do battle in Pasadena’s own Lucha Libros reading competition, answering questions about the book Bunnicula by Deborah and James Howe. They did a wonderful job answering questions about the plot and characters, and a high number of kids got 100% […]
Lucha Libros Kickoff
Published on :We had lots of fun at our Lucha Libros Information Night yesterday! Kids made masks, wore capes, and took lucha libre photos. Then they lined up to get their official lucha libre name (usually something very silly making very little syntactical sense in Spanish–but fun anyway!) and got their copies […]
Lucha Libros: going strong, and growing bigger!
Published on :Lucha Libros welcomed three new participants last night, and all of them did a great job competing alongside kids who have been doing this all year long! The book which was the subject of our questions last night was The Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney, and the […]
Lucha Libros January 7, 2015
Published on :On January 7th, 2nd and 3rd graders came back for the third time to do battle in our reading competition, Lucha Libros! They did better than ever, scoring really high scores, and everyone got the bonus question right! That meant lots of fun at the prize tables. We discussed The […]