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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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Spring into a Good Book!

ByadminApril 7, 2015June 15, 2017

Spring may be eluding us for a bit (snow in April?!), but I can feel the shift in the air. I’m itching to plant some seeds and watch for the first green shoots pushing up to start my garden. I want to get on...

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The Land of Stories by Chris Colfer

ByadminMarch 31, 2015

About the Book… If your kid is as obsessed with fairy tales as my two are, then they should love The Land of Stories series by Chris Colfer. We read this book for the first meeting of the Rapid Readers group for my younger daughter...

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Books To Help With The Tough Times

ByadminMarch 24, 2015March 24, 2015

When I think back to my adolescence, my clearest memories are around books I read and how they helped me through certain challenges in my life. When faced with wearing a back brace at 11, Deenie by Judy Blume prepared me for the doctor appointments, the...

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Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys

ByadminAugust 11, 2014August 11, 2014

There seems to be a time during the tween and teenage years where kids obsess on reading about war, whether historical or futuristic. In Grade 6, the Book Club immediately gravitated to Making Bombs for Hitler by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch. In Grade 8, it was Rose Under Fire...

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One more chapter, Please?!?

ByadminJuly 29, 2014

With longer summer days comes lazy summer nights 1 – whether it’s sitting out by a campfire singing songs or cuddling under a blanket with a flashlight and the book you just can’t put down, it’s all good! We seem to have an endless...

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Summer Reading Lists

ByadminJuly 22, 2014

Nothing says summer better to me than having loads of time to sit back and read under a tree or umbrella! My Summer Reading List is filled with books I have to read for various book clubs, but also my own guilty pleasures. Really,...

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“Somewhere in France” by Jennifer Robson

ByadminApril 24, 2014April 24, 2014

Last night I had the pleasure of meeting Jennifer Robson, author of Somewhere in France and (now I know) my neighbour. I heard about her book a few months ago and, as so often happens, it started to pop up in different areas of my life...

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“Springing” into Great Books

ByadminApril 1, 2014April 1, 2014

The spring thaw began today and already I want to put away the boots and pull out my flip-flops! Unfortunately, I’m sure there are more chilly days in store, so I’m keeping a few good books on the nightstand to curl up with. I...

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Vacation into a Good Book (or Two!)

ByadminMarch 24, 2014March 24, 2014

If anyone had told me that my family would read this many books on a week’s holiday, I never would have believed them. I think all my worry about raising reluctant readers (including my husband) is officially over. Having a full week with no...