Addison Addley has to come up with a 3-minute speech for his Grade 5 public speaking contest. He’s thought of a really great idea for his speech, Things That Aren’t Really There, and both his mom and his best friend Sam, who’s brilliant, have been busy coming up with lots of good example for him, [...]
Ms. Vallis’ Grade 8 students are in for a special treat. It just so happens that her cousin is married to Nick Thompson, rock music icon, and that Nick Thompson is going to visit the class, share with them everything that 30 years in the music business has taught him about writing, and then [...]
At the start of a new school year, Ms. Wurtz hides an empty notebook in the class’ writing centre. On the first page of that notebook, she writes an invitation to her students to write and draw whatever they like, and adds that she will read their work at the end of every month. She [...]
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 [...]
Thirteen year-old Emmaline Cayley calls herself an aviatrix. She dreams of flying and is determined to build a flying machine! Since the year is 1894 and airplanes have not yet been invented, this is an extraordinary and, some might say, even foolhardy ambition.
Fortunately for Emmaline, she has recently come from India, where her [...]
