With her mouse-brown hair, glasses and braces, her sliding grades, and her penchant for getting into scuffles at school, Meg feels like the odd person out in the Murray family. Her beautiful scientist mother manages a household of four children while carrying out experiments in the old dairy off the kitchen, her physicist father is [...]
Once a year all the residents of District 12 must attend the reaping, during which two names are drawn from those of everyone between the ages of 12 and 18. The girl and boy chosen will become District 12’s tributes to the Hunger Games, a televised spectacle in which 24 youths will battle to the [...]
Grace “Sprig” Ewing ought to be having the best year of her life. She is ten, her favourite number, she has terrific parents, a wonderful older sister, and Bliss, her faithful and supportive best friend. But somehow nothing seems to quite right anymore in Sprig’s life.
Her father, an architectural engineer, has left on an extended [...]
Young Cal has watched the Book Lady on her sorrel mare ride the long trail up to his family’s farm every two weeks to deliver books. While his younger sister Lark loves to read and would happily have her nose in a book from dawn to dusk, Cal has never learned to read, and feels [...]
ARE YOU A GIFTED CHILD LOOKING FOR SPECIAL OPPORTUNITIES? The ad, which appears in the local newspaper, catches Reynard Muldoon’s eye. The eleven-year old, who is constantly taunted and ridiculed by the other children because of his exceptional intelligence, has completed every class and read every book in the Stonetown Orphanage. Even his kind tutor, [...]
Traded to the Hogtown Maple Buds near the end of the regular season, Clancy Cooke helps his new team make the playoffs. With his skating and stick handling, Maple Buds fans believe, the team has a real shot at the Stanley Cup.
The visitors take an early lead in that seventh game of the finals, but [...]
After reading this lovely story, students in the primary division played with Audacity to create the opposing voices of Guji Guji’s duck siblings and the crocodiles who come to tempt him over to the dark side. Here is my offering!
Guji Guji
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