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Happy Birthday Ada Lovelace!

ByadminDecember 11, 2015April 13, 2018

Check out http://www.amazon.ca/Missing-Moonstone-Wollstonecraft-Detective-Agency/dp/038575440X and imagine Ada Lovelace, the world’s first computer programmer as a young girl on what would be her 200th birthday! Wollstonecraft Detective Agency: The Case of the Missing Moonstone by Jordan Stratford is a novel that pairs Ada Lovelace and Mary Shelley (author of...

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Between Heaven and Earth by Eric Walters

ByadminJanuary 29, 2014

Between Heaven and Earth by Eric Walters is the first in the Seven Series and nominated for The Red Maple Award in the 2014 Forest of Reading. I first heard about this series from Wesley King when he graciously Skyped with our Bookworm Bookclub...

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Book #29 – Margaret and the Moth Tree by Brit and Kari Trogen

ByadminMay 28, 2013May 29, 2013

About the Book… Margaret and the Moth Tree is a wonderful little tale about an orphan girl who finds the strength to stand up for injustice by listening to the smallest of voices. A more dramatic way to introduce the book would be to...

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Book #28 – The Vindico by Wesley King

ByadminMay 24, 2013May 29, 2013

About the Book… Our school invited author Wesley King to speak to the Grade 7 and 8 students and he was funny, approachable, and humble. All the kids were engaged and mesmerized by the author of The Vindico and his story of aging super...

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2013 Nominations for Forest of Reading

ByadminMay 1, 2013May 29, 2013

Looking for a good book? The 2013 Forest of Reading Lists can be found at: http://www.accessola.org/OLAWEB/Forest_of_Reading/2013_Nominated_Lists/OLAWEB/Forest_of_Reading/Current_Program_Year.aspx Or right here: Blue Spruce (JK-Grade 2) Busy Beaver by Nicholas Oldland Don’t Laugh at Giraffe by Rebecca Bender Ella May and the Wishing Stone by Cary Fagan,...

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Book #27 – Making Bombs for Hitler by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch

ByadminApril 5, 2013May 29, 2013

About the Book… Anticipating the Forest of Reading’s Silver Birch Awards, we selected Making Bombs for Hitler by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch as our next book. I was surprised that the girls chose this book over all the other nominees, but I remember my own obsession with...

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Undergrounders by David Skuy – 2012 Silver Birch Fiction Winner

ByadminMarch 12, 2013June 11, 2013

Undergrounders is a story about a 14-year-old boy learning to trust again after being on his own since his mom died when he was eight. Johnny is an Undergrounder, not a Streetie who lives on the street, fighting the drunks for a space on the grates...

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Crossing to Freedom by Virginia Frances Schwartz

ByadminMarch 12, 2013April 8, 2013

Crossing to Freedom is a story of courage and determination told from the eyes of a child who escapes slavery using the underground railroad. He has to leave his grandfather behind in order to survive and search for his father. This book is a great tool...

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Ghosts of the Titanic by Julie Lawson

ByadminMarch 12, 2013April 8, 2013

In Ghosts of the Titanic, Kevin is an eleven year old boy who doesn’t feel like he’s living up to his Dad’s expectation of being a soccer star. His teachers think he jokes around too much, but he’s trying to turn over a new leaf....

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Ghost Messages by Jacqueline Guest

ByadminMarch 12, 2013April 8, 2013

Author Jacqueline Guest takes us on a wild ride on the Great Eastern during its voyage to lay the first trans-Atlantic cable between England and Newfoundland in Ghost Messages. Ailish is a thirteen year old Irish fortune teller who stows away on the ship...