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@Ashley, if you want to use the BOM for spell out page points you have to start it after the Wheels challenge started; if you only want to get your team a credit towards the BOM prize then you have to start it during November (i.e. before Wheels).

Does that clarify? It's a change from the normal way we do things, and I realise that some of the language about how participation was turned into credits to the prize was not helping the clarity- sorry!

Normally you have a month from the start of the BOM to get the rewards from participation, so for Apples Never Fall that would be 15 Dec. As the challenge is only a few days past then, it's easiest to make the challenge the end date

Welcome your new team member and co-captain!

• Jean

BOM Prize

To clarify:
- only the November Theme BOM (Apples Never Fall) and December Adult BOM (If We Were Villains) count for prize participation credit
- to gain participation credit players must:

- start reading on or after 1 Nov 22
- finish reading by the end of the challenge
- respond to at least three sets of DQs for the BOM

- You don't need to use the BOM books in your spell out; if you do then normal rules apply (i.e. you have to use the book in the week it is finished etc)
- If you don't use the BOM books in the spell out then you don't get any points in the main challenge, just the credit towards your team's tally for the prize
- If you use the BOM books in the spell out then you'll get the normal page points and any bonus points that might apply, plus the credit towards your team's tally for the prize
- The boost multipliers only apply to the team's tally for the prize

WHEEL WINNERS PRIZES

Two very exciting prizes are available to
1. The overall winning team
2. The team with the most participation in the BOMs

The overall winning team will be invited to pick the theme for our next team challenge. Before anyone starts cheering for WOBBLE return, that is NOT on the table, as even the Chipmunks of Creativity and Chaos can learn to spot danger now! However it does mean creative input into things like team names and designing mini-challenges. It is a team prize, so we'd invite all team members to an innovation lab for the challenge; it is entirely optional - team members do not have to participate if they don't want, but the prize isn't transferrable.

The team that has the most participation in the two BOMs (Nov Theme and Dec Adult) running during this challenge will get to pick either a shortlist of books to be voted on for the Adult / Non-Fiction BOM (probably February or March, depending on timings) OR to pick a theme and shortlist for the Themed BOM. Shortlist means at least 5 and no more than 8 books on the list. Standard BOM nominations rules will still apply.

Participation means answering at least three sets of DQs for each BOM. If at least half your team participates in a BOM then you will get a participation boost of 1.5. If all your team participates in a BOM then you will get a double boost! (e.g. if a team is 8 players and all 8 participate in BOM1 and 4 in BOM2 they'd get 8*2 points for BOM1 and 4*1.5 points for BOM2)

Notes: The participation in BOMs does not generate additional points for the team, just adds to the record for winning the BOM prize.
For this, you can still gain participation credits even if you don't use the book in your spell out. In order to gain the credit you must have started the BOM during Nov 2022, and finish them by the end of the challenge.

Sorry for the late notice, but DQ sections are up and assigned!

Participation Verified

Cat
Judith
Angie

Volunteers

Tina (nominator)
Eldarwen
Judith
Preeti

Chapter Breakdown

Date		Chapters 	MPDQs
2 Dec		Act I		Tina
3 Dec		Act II		Eldarwen / Jenny
4 Dec		Act III		Judith
5 Dec		Act IV		Preeti
6 Dec		Act V		Cat

Guidance for DQ setters
Aim for a reasonable number of questions: 4 - 5 is typical. Please don't post too many - any more than 7 gets unwieldy!
Use consecutive numbering of the DQs for your days. So, for example, if Day One is posted as questions 1-4, Day Two should start at number 5 etc.
Don't worry too much about your questions: you aren't being tested on how clever your questions are!
Hints and tips:
- Is there a quote that jumped out at you? Use that in a question.
- What about the characters - do they generate strong feelings? No feelings? - either way, we can explore that!
- What about that plot twist?!
- Explore the writing style: is there an unusual structure being used? what's the tone of voice like? or the point of view?

Want more information about how NBRC runs their Book of the Month discussions? Check out the information here

Oliver Marks has just served ten years in jail - for a murder he may or may not have committed. On the day he's released, he's greeted by the man who put him in prison. Detective Colborne is retiring, but before he does, he wants to know what really happened a decade ago.

As one of seven young actors studying Shakespeare at an elite arts college, Oliver and his friends play the same roles onstage and off: hero, villain, tyrant, temptress, ingenue, extra. But when the casting changes, and the secondary characters usurp the stars, the plays spill dangerously over into life, and one of them is found dead. The rest face their greatest acting challenge yet: convincing the police, and themselves, that they are blameless.

BOM Participation Tracking

Judith
Cat

Volunteers

Cat (nominator)
Judith
Jenny

Chapter Breakdown

Date		MPDQ	%age	Start / End phrases
16 & 17 Dec	Cat	35%	ends "...pulled him out of the warehouse"
18 & 19 Dec	Judith	63%	starts "Charlie woke naked..."
 				ends "...having moved on without her."
20 & 21 Dec	Jenny	100%	starts "Back at school, ..."

Guidance for DQ setters
Aim for a reasonable number of questions: 4 - 5 is typical. Please don't post too many - any more than 7 gets unwieldy!
Use consecutive numbering of the DQs for your days. So, for example, if Day One is posted as questions 1-4, Day Two should start at number 5 etc.
Don't worry too much about your questions: you aren't being tested on how clever your questions are!
Hints and tips:
- Is there a quote that jumped out at you? Use that in a question.
- What about the characters - do they generate strong feelings? No feelings? - either way, we can explore that!
- What about that plot twist?!
- Explore the writing style: is there an unusual structure being used? what's the tone of voice like? or the point of view?

Want more information about how NBRC runs their Book of the Month discussions? Check out the information here

Each month we have a themed BOM. December's theme is Disability



December 3rd is the UNs's International Day of People with Disabilities, so our theme for December is People with Disabilities.
Here's a resource for the many different types of disability out there: https://wecapable.com/types-of-disabi...



A transporting novel that follows a year of seismic romantic, political, and familial shifts for a teacher and her students at a boarding school for the deaf, from the acclaimed author of Girl at War.

True biz (adj/exclamation; American Sign Language): really, seriously, definitely, real-talk

True biz? The students at the River Valley School for the Deaf just want to hook up, pass their history final, and have doctors, politicians, and their parents stop telling them what to do with their bodies. This revelatory novel plunges readers into the halls of a residential school for the deaf, where they'll meet Charlie, a rebellious transfer student who's never met another deaf person before; Austin, the school's golden boy, whose world is rocked when his baby sister is born hearing; and February, the headmistress, who is fighting to keep her school open and her marriage intact, but might not be able to do both. As a series of crises both personal and political threaten to unravel each of them, Charlie, Austin, and February find their lives inextricable from one another--and changed forever.

This is a story of sign language and lip-reading, cochlear implants and civil rights, isolation and injustice, first love and loss, and, above all, great persistence, daring, and joy. Absorbing and assured, idiosyncratic and relatable, this is an unforgettable journey into the Deaf community and a universal celebration of human connection.

Kira wrote: "Hi! Can we have Alaina added to our team Nacho Problem?

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/2..."

done :)

Team assignments have been released, you can check it out here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/..., where you will also see your word and cover colour for the week.

All teams will also be getting bonus points for books tagged SPACE OPERA used in your spellouts - get planning!

Please be patient as your captains sort themselves out; we'll get threads open for chatting ASAP!

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