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 [...]
It’s snowing and Christmas is just around the corner, but eleven year-old Min Randall is not looking forward to the celebration. She hates Christmas because it only serves to remind her that she doesn’t have a family of her own. When her foster mother abruptly packs up her things and delivers her back [...]
As she reaches puberty, thirteen year-old Dusie is contending with all of the uncertainties of adolescence; fear that she is not brave or kind or wise, fear that she will never be attractive enough, cool enough, lovable enough to deserve that special love for which she longs.
When she awakens one morning to discover that, in [...]
The forty-odd members of the Girls’ Book Club have been fortunate to receive their first books of this year through the kind efforts of Tessa Griffin, of Canadian Children’s Book Clubs. After lengthy debate, girls chose five novels, Dusssie, by Nancy Springer, Dancing Through the Snow, by Jean Little, The Royal Woods, by Matt [...]
Members of the Girl’s Book Club recently held their end-of-year party. Be sure to read this summer, and to bring in your summer reading logs during the first week of school, next September, to be eligible for one of three Summer Reading prizes!
Here are some maps of imaginary worlds drawn by girls, and inspired [...]
Twelve year-old Maxwell Kane’s life is transformed when he meets Kevin. Despite the odds, the hulking giant who’s “never had a brain” and the fierce, mouthy genius locked in a crippled two-foot body become friends, and then more than friends. When they discover that, together they are more than the sum of their [...]
The Girls’ Book Club celebrated the end of Diary of a Fairy Godmother by making our own wands. We really enjoyed this story, particularly the aphorisms from Be the One with the Wand. Here are our favourites -
* There’s no voice on the outside that can tell you more than the
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