Last week, I held information meetings for three Book Clubs, the Boys’ Book Club, for boys in Grade 4, 5 and 6, the Girls’ Book Club, for girls in Grades 4, 5 and 6, and the Intermediate Book Club, for students in Grades 7 and 8.
The boys met at lunch on Monday. There was [...]
The Girls’ Book Club read Anne of Green Gables, in this the 100th anniversary year of the publication of LM Montgomery’s Canadian children’s classic. We enjoyed Anne’s bursts of enthusiasm, her wildly romantic and fanciful imagination, her fierce love of Diana, Miss Stacey, Mrs. Allen and Matthew, her equally fierce hatred of Gilbert and [...]
When Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert request an orphan boy to help around the farm, they are sent, instead, a little girl named Anne Shirley. The child has red hair and freckles and big green eyes, and possesses plenty of spirit and imagination. Shy, gentle Matthew Cuthbert, who is sent to fetch the orphan [...]
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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When thirteen year-old Pauline Carelli-Bloom wins a school short story-writing prize of Roget’s Thesaurus and You Too Can Write a Great Novel!, she concludes that she is going to grow up to be a writer. As it is the first day of the summer holidays, she decides to waste no time in beginning her [...]
Princess Esmeralda is the despair of her mother. Lacking in the social graces, clumsy and bored by self-absorbed suitors, she prefers exploring the flora and fauna of the swamp and visiting her aunt Grassina, a witch, to attending formal balls. When she trips and frightens away some grasshoppers in the swamp one day, [...]
On their fourteenth birthday, three girls are told that they are not who they imagined themselves to be, are given stones of power, and are sent out into the world to fulfil their destiny. Meeting for the first time under the branches of flowering tree, Jade, Opal and Amber have grown up in very different [...]
Reunited at last with her parents, from whom she was kidnapped as a baby, and surrounded by her friend Rocky and her faithful canine companion, Petula, Molly Moon ought to be happily settling into life at Briersville Park, but she cannot stop thinking about her long-lost, and long-forgotten, twin brother. Stolen at birth by [...]
