> You have to give kids something that is desirable across the board,
> not just to readers. I was thinking of starting a club at the primary
> level called the "Hundred Club." Kids who get to 100 AR points (and
> I've seen 1st graders do it by mid-year) get to be in a drawing once a
> quarter for 100 denominated prizes... like 100 Chuck E Cheese tokens
> or $100 gift certificate to a book store. I don't know what the school
> would think...
>
> dej

Just an idea. Would take a lot of work on your part.

The prize could be making the kid a few copies of her own "book,"
i.e. one she's written (or drawn) herself.

For $100, there are quite a few options these days for producing a
very small quantity of "books."

Most any copy shop can do spiral binding or that sort of funky-
looking perfect-binding, I forget the name of the process but there's
black tape over the spine. These days they can probably do glossy
covers and some may be able to do POD-style perfect-bound books.

Indeed, I see the Staples site refers to "Coverbind Print-On-Demand"
and "Coverbind Ambassador," the latter being a "true hardbound book."

Not to point out the obvious, but with a little bit of software
fiddling you can turn formatted text into jpg images, then upload
them to Shutterfly or one of the photo services, and create a photo
book in which the "photos" are images of printed text.

Lulu is happy to print one or two copies of a book.

It seems to me that some elementary school teachers are wise in the
ways of making small bound cardboard cover book by skillfully
deploying stapler and paste and tape.

It's been ages, but I imagine that theses still need to be bound so
there are probably still binderies in college towns.

Maybe it would even be good enough to buy one of those "presentation
books" at Staples that have a dozen clear plastic sheet-protector
envelopes in them, into which you can drop 8-1/2" by 11" sheets.