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2012 ADB

 

Longwood's 2012 Advanced Division Battle of the Books team "The Bookbonic Plague" poses for a photo at Sachem Library.
   
  Thanks for your interest!  The 2012 Suffolk County Advanced Division Battle of the Books was held on Friday, March 16 at Sachem Public Library.  Our LPL team, "The Bookbonic Plague," took second place and also came home with the award for best costume!  The three titles for the 2012 competition were:
   
Fat Cat book cover Fat Cat by Robin Brande - Overweight teenage Catherine embarks on a high school science project in which she must emulate the ways of hominims, the earliest ancestors of human beings, by eating an all-natural diet and foregoing technology.
   
Sky is Everywhere book cover The Sky is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson - In the months after her sister dies, seventeen-year-old Lennie falls into a love triangle and discovers the strength to follow her dream of becoming a musician.
   
Marcelo in the Real World book cover Marcelo in the Real World by Francis X. Stork - Marcelo Sandoval, a seventeen-year-old boy on the high-functioning end of the autistic spectrum, faces new challenges, including romance and injustice, when he goes to work for his father in the mail room of a corporate law firm