When his father attends the Roosters’ Union Convention, Henry is landed with the important job of waking up the sun and the animals and people for a hard day’s work. This is a problem for the young rooster because, as his mother says, “Henry just isn’t a morning rooster.” As the week goes [...]
Here are some of the spells readers wrote, inspired by the first chapters of Esmé Raji Codell’s novel!
Bad Teacher Transforming Spell
Evil teachers all be gone,
Turn into a duck or swan!
So that one won’t know it’s you,
Inside your mind is
Stuck like glue!
Bloody Finger
A bit of this,
and a bit of that,
now your toe nails,
are growing out of [...]
During the latter part of the first term, a number of very determined girls in grades 4, 5 and 6, recently prevailed upon the FernFolio Editor to help them start a Junior Girls’ Book Club. The club met for the first time in January. Over fifty girls showed up!
At a second meeting, a [...]
It’s the first hockey practice of the season and Nicolas is looking forward to getting on the ice, but first he’s got to find his equipment! His room is a mess and, with only an hour to go before the practice, he’s still missing his helmet, his skates, his hockey stick and his championship [...]
White Lily is born into a wealthy family living in a village on the lower Yangtze river at the beginning of the 20th century. Her first years are carefree and joyous, running barefoot over the flagstone courtyard of her family’s house and shrieking with laughter at her adored older brother, Fu-gui.
White Lily’s world changes [...]
The girls in the Girls’ Book Club have created their own witchy alter egos. There are their portraits!
To view the portraits, simply click on the images!
The boys in the Boys’ Book Club have drawn diagrams of Argo Manor. To view their work, click on the images below!
Sent to spend the summer on the west coast with his Gran and four girls cousins while his mother honeymoons with her new husband, twelve year-old Kip finds himself rather overwhelmed by this first meeting with his extended family. Since her big, rambling house by the sea is due to be torn down at [...]
Here is a small book of poems that everyone should read. Sheree Fitch is a lover of words and word play - alliteration, rhythm, rhyme, onomatopoeia. Her poems are at times playful, at times evocative, at times thought provoking.
The opera-singing dinosaur of Argentinosaurus reminds one of Evita Peron and the Three Tenors. [...]
