Starting a team
Registration form (Word: 54KB)
Frequently asked questions
AHS campus map (PDF: 2.2MB)
CCSD HRRB schedule
HRRB competition rules
HRRB Northern competition (Word: 34KB)
High school book list
Middle school book list
Elementary school book list
Sample questions & database template
Volunteer Information Packet (PDF: 363KB)
Volunteer training (PPT: 3.5MB)
Question writer volunteers
Steering committee
Georgia HRRB
GA Book Award blog
GA Peach Teen blog
Cobb Library Media Education
CCALMS
Fourth Annual CCSD Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl: January 9, 2010
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| Check out the Ruffin Reading Bowl video! |
The competition is all about recognizing readers and sharing the love of reading. In the competition, students compete on factual knowledge of 20 books. Elementary and middle school teams read and compete using the Georgia Book Award title list, while high school students read and compete using the Georgia Peach Teen Reader's Choice nominee list. Although a team of five students will compete against another team of five students at the same level (for example, high school students compete against other high school students) the student that buzzes in the quickest will be called upon to answer the question without assistance from teammates.
Helen Ruffin was the media specialist at Skyhaven Elementary School in DeKalb County until her retirement in 1992. To encourage her students to read, she created a competition game based on the Georgia Children's Book Award nominees. The idea took hold in DeKalb County and grew to a statewide competition in 2003.
On March 7, 2009, McEachern High School won first place in the state Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl! The team travelled to the Children's Literature Conference in Athens to compete with others around the state, and they took first place in the high school competition with a 170-90 score. They even got to meet Helen Ruffin herself! Congratulations to Mary Inman, Pam Fleming, and the rest of the McEachern HRRB team!