Intermediate Book Club, or How I Came to Be Investigated by Canadian Border...
The Intermediate Book Club has decided to read Deborah Ellis’ Sacred Leaf, sequel to I am a Taxi (see my review). While we await the arrival of our books, book club members have spent a very enjoyable...
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Sketches by Eric Walters
Fourteen year-old Dana is a runaway, living on the streets of Toronto. Begging for spare change to buy coffee and a doughnut, and protecting her rapidly dwindling possessions from thieves is a far cry...
View ArticleBook 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...
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The Way Lies North by Jean Rae Baxter
Escalating hostilities between Tories, loyal to the British Crown, and Whigs, who demand independence for Britain’s Thirteen American Colonies, have exacted a heavy price on fifteen-year old Charlotte...
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The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
In the spring of 1939, a nine-year old girl named Liesel Meminger comes to live with Rosa and Hans Hubermann in their tiny house in Himmel Street, in Molching, a small town near Munich. Having...
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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...
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The Bully Boys by Eric Walters
When fourteen-year-old Thomas Roberts steps into McCann’s general store in Queenston on that day in July 1813, little does he know that he about to be swept into the adventure of a lifetime. Tom and...
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A River Apart by Robert Sutherland
There have been rumours of a possible war between Upper and Lower Canada and the United States, but it comes as a shock to fifteen-year-old James Shaw when war is declared and the Malachi Jackson, the...
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Divergent by Veronica Roth
In Beatrice’s city the population is divided into five factions, each of which has committed itself to honouring, no, living according to the human quality it holds in highest esteem. Knowledge,...
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Man Overboard by Curtis Parkinson
It is the summer of 1943, sixteen-year-old friends Scott and Adam have gotten jobs working on the Rapids Prince, a ship that takes passengers on the day-long trip from Prescott to Montreal and through...
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