Book Project Ideas


Write a different ending for the book.

Pretend you are a talk show host and interview the main character.

Create a travel brochure for the setting of the story or scrapbook pages about key characters.

Create a book jacket, including illustrations, an enticing synopsis, author bio, and favorable reviews.

Summarize the book into a comic or story aimed for younger students or your classmates.

Write a news article about an important event from the book.

Dramatize a scene from the story with other students or using puppets.

Post a book review on Share What You're Reading.

Choose two characters from the story and write a conversation they might have.

Prepare a television commercial about your book. Act out the commercial or record it for your classmates.

Write a letter/email to the author of your book. Address it to the publisher and mail it. Or, see if the author has a website and email it.

Write a ballad or song about the characters and events in your story. Set the words to the music of a popular song and sing it to the class.

Give a dramatic reading of a scene in the book to your classmates.

Design a poster or new book cover depicting the climax of the story.

Write an acrostic poem about the book using the letters in the title of the book or the name of a character or author.