Ben hides in the musty basement, burning the furniture for heat and light, creeping upstairs from time to time to beg water from the upstairs neighbour, Missus Radinksi, and peering fearfully through closed curtains at the dangerous world outside. There are wolves in the city, he warns, and they are coming for you, and [...]
The girls who read her book created a mock interview with author Jean Little.
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The girls who read Molly Moon, Micky Minus, and the Mind Machine created a mock interview with its main characters.
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The members of the Girls’ Book Club who read created this radio podcast. Click on the icon to hear their mock interview with Pauline!
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Struggling to care for his severely depressed mother, whose illness has meant their downward slide into extreme poverty, Owen must also cope with the whispers and knowing looks of people in the village. “Like father like son. He’ll go the same way,” the neighbours say, not very comforting or supportive when those same neighbours state [...]
“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you,” is the message written on a billboard. When a small boy asks his grandfather about the message, the old man explains that this is the Golden Rule, a rule for living your life that is so simple and important that it shines. He tells [...]
Thirteen year-old Samantha Gwynn has a secret that she needs to share, and no one whom she can share it with. Sure, she has some good friends, Angie, Tracey and Vanessa, the type that you can hang around with at school and spend every single Saturday night with having sleep overs, but she can’t [...]
Jenny and Alexandra are best friends. They sit together on the school bus, play cards in Jenny’s tree house, spy on Alexandra’s brother, skip rope, and play Jenny Tag. Both girls are creative; Jenny makes puppets and invents games, and Alexandra draws and paints. Though the girls have had their disagreements, they [...]
Step into Margriet’s backyard and take a look at some of the many animals and plants found there. From snakes and wasps to mice, spiders and bats, in winter, spring, summer and fall, Margriet helps the reader to explore her garden and its visitors at all times of the day and night, and in all [...]
When her small village in Mozambique is attacked by bandits and her father is killed, Sofia Alface, her sister, Maria, brother, Alfredo, and mother, Lydia, flee, walking for days in search of somewhere safe. They finally find and are welcomed into a second village, where Mother Lydia builds a hut and joins the village [...]
