Fuzzy Mud/Birbery

Today I started a book called Fuzzy Mud by Louis Sachar. This book is part of the Birbery competition. I started Birbery on 12-1-2015. These are the 10 books of the Birbery this year:

• The War That Saved my Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
• Fuzzy Mud by Louis Sachar
• Mark of the Thief by Jennifer A. Nielsen
• Roller Girl by Victoria Jamieson
• The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Peterson and the Churchill Club by Phillip M. Hoose
• Stella by Starlight by Sharon M. Draper
• Echo by Pam Muñoz Ryan
• Circus Mirandus by Cassie Beasley
• Masterminds by Gordon Korman
• and Fish in a Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt. All of these books are really good. At least the ones I've read are extremely good.

The next thing is the tests. These are online using the website Moodle. First, you read the book. The test is a series of trivia questions based on the book.  One from Fuzzy Mud's quiz was:
"What does Tamaya do when Chad throws Marshall to the ground?" For Birbery, you must get an 80% or higher to pass the quiz but you get one retake. For Battle of the Books, you have to get a 60% or higher to pass. You must pass all 10 tests and read all 10 books and attend 2 book clubs to get a spot in the Quiz Bowl. The Quiz Bowl is a series of questions based off of he 10 books. Unlike Battle (short for Battle of the Books), there are no teams. You must read from 5 to 9 of the 10 to watch the Quiz Bowl. The top 5 in the Quiz Bowl get to be on the committee. The committee votes on the best of the 10 books. The book that gets the most votes is the Birbery winner. Last year, Mark of the Dragonfly won and this year it's being used as a Battle Book. There are 10 questions per quiz so that's 100 questions in all! Yesterday I took 3 tests and passed all of them! I got 100% Fuzzy Mud at home (Moodle tests can be taken anywhere.), and at school I got a 90% on Roller Girl and 100% on Mark of the Thief.