Saturday, December 31, 2011

What my senior students are reading - a list!

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One of my annual tasks, and it is a joyous one, is to take a close look at the books recommended by Grade 6 students as they leave our scho...
Friday, December 30, 2011

The Robe of Skulls by Vivian French illustrated by Ross Collins

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This book is like a very fizzy drink. It is effervescent. The plot just gallops along filled with fabulous evil characters and special heroe...
Thursday, December 29, 2011

Junebug by Alice Mead

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Junebug has only 100 pages and yet it packs in a powerful story of growing up African American, poor, in a single parent family and in “the...
Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Mrs Frisby and the rats of NIMH by Robert C O'Brien

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Quite by accident I seem to be reading Newbery Winners at the moment. The real reason these books are bubbling to the top of my huge reading...
Monday, December 26, 2011

Snow by PD Eastman illustrated by Roy McKie

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I am in Australia and we do not have snow at Christmas but I picked this book up off my shelf today because I was feeling quite nostalgic ( ...
Sunday, December 25, 2011

The 13th floor a ghost story by Sid Fleischman

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I first read this book in 1995 and today I re-read it and was surprised just how much of the plot I remembered. The 13th floor a ghost story...
Friday, December 23, 2011

Black-eyed Susan by Jennifer Armstrong

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Here is another old book which we have had to take out of our library due to wear and tear. Black-eyed Susan is a mix of Little House on th...