Maud Squad
Join the 2024-2025 Maud Squad!
Attend the informational meeting on November 20th in the media center during Panther Time.
Any questions? Ask Ms. Thurmer or Ms. Pixler!
2025 Nominees:
MAUD SQUAD Expectations:
- Join our Schoology Group
- Attend Informational Meeting in the Media Center on November 20 (during 6,7,8 PT)
- Read a MHL nominated book, fill out the response slip, and give it to Ms. Alison in the library. After a brief book discussion, you’ll receive your panther paw to put on our MHL display.
- Students need to read the WHOLE book.
- We will have a book club check-in on January 30 (during midday).
MAUD SQUAD Celebration Party:
- Students who have read 3 or more books will be invited to the Book Club Celebration party on March 13 (midday). We will eat treats and play a Kahoot about the books for prizes.
About the author, Maud Hart Lovelace
Maud Squad is our name for the Minnesota Youth Reading Awards, which was created in honor of author Maud Hart Lovelace, who was born April 25, 1892, in Mankato, Minnesota. When Maud was 10, a booklet of her poems was printed; and by age eighteen, she had sold her first short story.
The Hart family left Mankato shortly after Maud’s high school graduation in 1910 and settled in Minneapolis, where Maud attended the University of Minnesota. In 1917, she married Delos W. Lovelace, a newspaper reporter who later became a popular writer of short stories and wrote the novelization King Kong in 1932.
Visit Maud's home in Mankato, Minnesota, and learn more about her life and books with the Betsy-Tacy Society.
