Hi All! Sorry my posts have been lacking lately; I got a teaching job! It’s only a contract that ends in June, but it’s still a 1.0, 5 days a week so it’s taken most of my time and energy to build a grade 2-4 English program as well as a grade 6-8 music program, […]
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The Lemonade War by Jacqueline Davies What a great book! I happened to pick this up and skim the back to settle a debate between two reading buddies who couldn’t agree on a book, (thus prompting me to pick one for them) and ended up reading it myself after school! This is the story about
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We are all made of Molecules by Susin Nielsen is an amazing story about two very different teenagers whose lives are suddenly thrown together when their respective parents move in together. Right up there with Simon and the Homo-sapiens’ Agenda, this has easily become one of my favourite books! The two main characters, Stewart (an
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What a great book! This story follows two different boys from the same school who experience things very differently because of their skin colour; one is white and the other black. The book follows the chain of events leading up to and following the one main character, Rashad, who is assumed to be robbing a
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What an AMAZING book. Now, I personally like history, so I was a little biased towards this book since it follows the story of one of the young boys on Schindler’s List during the Second World War. However it is an amazingly well written book! The only downside is that while the reading level
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Catch by Will Leitch can be loosely defined as a coming of age story for boys. Following the summer journey of the main character Tim Temples, this book allows the reader to follow along as Tim struggles with whether or not he wants to go to college, or stay in his small town to
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The Paper Cowboy is a book that I picked up because it sounded interesting during a bulk book sale; and boy was it worth it I absolutely loved this book and I was riding the highs and lows right along with the main character Tommy the entire time! This book takes place in the
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Artemis Fowl is something of a classroom classic; unfortunately one I never got into as a youth. It was an interesting tale of a young boy who is incredibly smart, smarter than the adults around him, who devises a way to steal money from supposedly mythical creatures. You follow Artemis as he tries to restore
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My first book by Mike Lupica, I had heard good things about his books especially for middle school boys who struggle with finding books interesting. I can definitely see why he’s a popular author among teacher’s libraries! A story centered around basketball, Fast Break has a great way of combining the more detail oriented aspects
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This is such a good book! An old favourite I decided to reread for this blog, Magyk follows the story of the Heap family, specifically the little baby Silas finds in a snowbank. This young child finds out on her tenth birthday she is actually the murdered queens daughter and goes on a frantic
