FernFolio

During Ireland’s Great Famine, in the 1840’s, the potato crops were struck with blight and turned to rotten mush in the fields.   For poor tenant farmers, who for generations had planted potatoes as their only crop, the blight spelled disaster.  Without food to fed their families, or a crop to sell for money to buy [...]

Intended for students in Grades 7, 8 and 9, the Red Maple Program is one of three Ontario Library Association reading programs in which our school participates each year. In mid-October, the OLA announces the books nominated for the Red Maple prize. This year, there are ten nominated fiction titles, and ten nominated non-fiction titles.
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