Entries Tagged as 'Girls' Book Club'

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

The Curse of the Evening Eye by Carol Matas and Perry Nodelman

Molly and Adam Barnett are trying to break a century and a half-old curse to save their father’s life.  Dad’s 35th birthday is only days away, and, if they cannot stop her, Lucinda, the ghost of a long-dead family servant, is going to scare him to death. Lucinda is still furious that, back in the [...]

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

The Odds Get Even by Natale Ghent

Boney, Itchy and Squeak are neighbours and best friends.  All three boys are odd; Boney, whose parents disappeared when he was a baby, lives with his neurotic aunt and her long-suffering husband, Squeak, whose mother ran off to work in a travelling cabaret, views the world from behind World War I goggles fitted with lens [...]

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

Book Clubs

The school’s three book clubs have wound up for the summer.  After a year full of reading and discussion, shared lunches and case loads of Oreo cookies, playing with Photo Story to create book trailers, two electronic conferences and a wiki, and one abortive author visit, student readers are heading out of the school library [...]

Monday, May 18th, 2009

The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

Twelve-year old Percy Jackson seems to be plagued by bad luck.  Constantly in trouble at his upper New York state boarding school, hounded by a nasty classmate named Nancy Bobofit, and struggling with both dyslexia and ADHD, it’s like he’s an accident waiting for a place to happen.  And it happens inside one of the [...]

Wednesday, October 8th, 2008

Book Clubs – A New Year Begins!

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 [...]

Sunday, June 1st, 2008

Girls’ Book Club’s Anne Picnic

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 [...]

Sunday, May 18th, 2008

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

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 [...]

Friday, March 28th, 2008

Dancing Through the Snow

The girls who read her book created a mock interview with author Jean Little.
dancing-through-the-snow-interview.mp3

Friday, March 28th, 2008

Molly Moon, Micky Minus, and the Mind Machine

The girls who read Molly Moon, Micky Minus, and the Mind Machine created a mock interview with its main characters.
molly-moon.mp3

Friday, March 28th, 2008

Pauline de Lammermoor

The members of the Girls’ Book Club who read created this radio podcast. Click on the icon to hear their mock interview with Pauline!
pauline-interview.mp3