NGMS Fall Book Fair

Our fall book fair ran from Friday, September 18th through Thursday, October 1st. It was great! All of the students seemed to enjoy browsing and shopping for books, school supplies, computer games, etc. We more than doubled our sales last year, thanks to our amazing and tireless parent volunteer team and our extensive marketing campaign. Mr. Swensen was also a great help- running our own NGMS courier service to pick up our re-stock items daily from the Scholastic warehouse.

Each day in the week preceding the fair and during the fair students had the opportunity to watch fair commercials and short author clips immediately after the morning show. It is no surprise that some of the books featured in these clips were some of our best sellers.

In the first 2 days we sold out of many copies of the most popular titles! Our top ten books were:

Ultimate Coke or Pepsi/Dude
Distant Waves
The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod: Eighth Grade Bites
More Bones
Mythlopedia
Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Last Olympian
2009 Guinness World Records
Zoobreak
Wimpy Kid: Do-It-Yourself Book
Tentacles

Students even had the opportunity to pre-order the new book Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days which will be released on October 12th!

Some our other best-selling items were twister and money erasers, "fuzzy" pencils, and twister tube tornadoes. What fun!

With our profit we have purchased approximately 35 new books for the media center and a SMART board! :-) (Mrs. Swensen is particularly excited about this!) We will also have some cash profit leftover to purchase resources such as magazine subscriptions and DVDs for classroom use.

We are looking forward to another great fair in the spring!

Thanks to all who participated- students, parents, teachers, staff members, administrators, and awesome volunteers for all of your support! We could not have done it without you!