The Zena Sutherland Award for Children’s Literature assembly will be held on March 6 at 10:50 a.m. We’ll hear from Janice Del Negro, who is a storyteller extraordinaire and author of past Sutherland nominee, Lucy Dove. Sadly, Hans Christian Andersen won’t be present unless someone can figure out how to raise him from dead. [...]
Posted on April 30th, 2009 by Ms. Cynthia Oakes
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The 7th grade girls book club has read three books and had three awesome discussions. The books we’ve read are: Uglies by Scott Westerfield; Totally Joe by James Howe; and Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson. Our next selection will be The Plain Janes by Cecil Castelucci and Jim Rugg. [...]
Posted on March 15th, 2008 by Ms. Cynthia Oakes
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And now for your reading pleasure, a list of award winning books that you might be interested in checking out from the library. Just click on the links and you can learn more about the books, the awards and the authors. Enjoy!
National Book Award for Young People’s Literature
Award Winner
The Absolutely True [...]
Posted on January 27th, 2008 by Ms. Cynthia Oakes
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We are shocked! Never before has the Caudill list been so popular. We ordered 5 copies of each title and they were snapped up after the second booktalk. And that was just the 7th grade. So, we ordered 5 more copies. And those have been snapped up as well. Here’s [...]
Posted on October 24th, 2007 by Ms. Cynthia Oakes
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