TomeCon Swag

We missed seeing our students in person this year.  As soon as school resumes, see your teacher/adviser to get your TomeCon Swag.  Buttons and bookmarks are waiting for each student that registered. 

Tome Society Award Winners

Tome Reading Bowl Winners:
  1. Alexander High School
  2. Sequoyah High School
  3. Douglas County High School
  4. Chestatee High School
High School Chapter of the Year Recipients​
  • Chestatee High School (Highest Point Earning High School Chapter)

Alan Gratz
TOME FEATURED AUTHOR  OF Grenade (19-20 List) and Allies (20-21 List)
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Livia Blackburn
Tome Featured Author of Rosemarked
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Jodi Meadows
Tome Featured Author of My Plain Jane and Before she Ignites
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Kathryn Holmes
Tome Featured author of How it Feels to Fly
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Margaret Peterson Haddix
Tome Featured Author of The Summer of Broken Things
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Rebecca Ross
Tome Featured Author of Queen's Rising
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Tome Society Discussion Guides

Graphic Novels with JOey Weiser

Learn more from Joey Weiser's "How to Create a Page" step-by-step guide. 
  • Try hand drawing your own comic strip with this template.
  • Or make your own digital comic strip with StoryBoardThat. 

magician kyle jarrard 
Check out more from Kyle HERE!

CREATE: Black Out Poetry
Instructions:
Watch the video and advance through the slideshow above. 

Materials Needed:
Pages from old books, newspapers, magazines, etc.
Sharpies or other markers (and/or colored pencils)

What is it?
Poems “written” by marking out all of the unwanted words on a page. These poems often form a picture as well. 


  • Record and share yourself reading your poem on our Flipgrid (click the button link above). 
    • Make sure in your video you hold up your Black Out Poetry creation so your image can be clearly seen in your video.   
  • THEN - Reply to someone else’s posted poem and answer these questions about their posted poem. 
  1. I think this poem is about ________.
  2. My favorite part of the poem is _____.
  3. The poem reminds me of ________. ​

More Create Activities
Click on Each Image below to Get Started

We can't wait to see you at  TomeCon 2021

Select author previews
for 20-21 it list titles

Jessica Brody - Sky Without Stars
Andrew Norriss - Mike 
            Kimberly Gabriel - Every Stolen Breath                                                                                 Jessica Khoury - Last of Her Name
        Alison Gervais - The Silence Between Us

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