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February 2019
Fall in Love with a Book!
This week’s recommendations- “Fall in Love with a Book!”
Senior: Tough Love; Soulmates; Love Dreams; The History of Love; I’d tell you I love you, but then I’d have to kill you; Love is a Dog from Hell; The Man Who Loved Only Numbers
Middle: Puppy Love; How to Break a Dragon’s Heart; Pig Heart Boy; Sisters, Super-creeps, & Slushy, Gushy Love Songs; Love Lessons; The Heart, Lungs, and Blood
Junior: Love, Peace, & Chocolate; Love Stinks!; Scout; Because of Winn Dixie; Heart of Gold; From the Heart; Love and Chicken Nuggets
Go Green!
This week’s recommendations- “Go Green!”
Senior: Wonders of Life; Fragile Earth; Turtles All the Way Down; The Good Earth; Bear Grylls: Gold of the Gods; The Jungle Books
Middle: Climate Change; Bridging the Energy Gap; Green Glass Beads; Why is Snot Green?; Anne of Green Gables
Junior: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle; Grow it, Eat it; Spud Goes Green; Green Smoke; Little House in the Big Woods; Wild in the Woods
January 2019
Superheroes: Fact and Fiction
This week’s recommendations- “Superheroes: Fact and Fiction”
Senior: The Recruit; Young Samurai: The Way of the Sword; A Long Way Gone; I Am Malala; Wolverine; Guardians of the Galaxy
Middle: Kid Normal; The Hero’s Guide to Storming the Castle; Study Hall of Justice; Percy Jackson and the Titan’s Curse; Gandhi; Triumph on Everest
Junior: Cleopatra in Space: The Thief and the Sword; Captain Valiant and Me; Malala Yousafzai: Warrior With Words; Martin Luther King, Jr.; The Adventures of Captain Underpants; Dog Man
Put a Poem in your Pocket
This week’s recommendations- “Put a Poem in your Pocket”
Senior: The Haiku Anthology; Poems on the Underground; Love is a Dog from Hell; The English Poets of the First World War; Poem a Day; Everyman’s Poetry
Middle: Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats; 1066 and Before That; The Truth About Teachers; What are we Fighting For?; Off by Heart; Green Glass Beads
Junior: Pip; Funny Poems; Talking Turkeys; Songs and Verse; A Family of Poems; The Usborne Book of Poetry
History’s Mysteries
This week’s recommendations- “History’s Mysteries”
Senior: The Fixer: A Story from Sarajevo; The First World War: The War to End All Wars; The Cold War; The English Patient; The Eagle of the Ninth; The Secret Life of Bees
Middle: Vile Victorians; The Usborne Introduction to the Second World War; The Who’s Who of the Industrial Revolution; Then; Private Peaceful; Ghosts of Shanghai
Junior: The Usborne Medieval World; The Titanic Sinks!; Raiders and Ruins; Meet Samantha; Pharaoh’s Handbook; Eyewitness Viking
Spellbinding…
This week’s recommendations- “Spellbinding: Fantasy and Magic…”
Senior: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child; The Colour of Magic; A Hat Full of Sky; The Sorceress; The Ocean at the End of the Lane; Hunted
Middle: Young Knights of the Round Table; Here, There Be Dragons; The Curse of the Gloamglozer; Rose; Muddle Earth Too; Unlocking the Spell
Junior: Green Smoke; WhatEver After: Fairest of All; Blossom in Jewel Forest; Simply Magic for Wannabe Wizards; Children’s Book of Magic; The Sleeping Sword
Current events
Smithsonian Tween Tribune: Check out articles on animals, fashion, entertainment, school, science, technology, and national and world news. Written by kids and professional journalists. 4 age groups: Years 1 to 13.
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Featured online resource
Here is one of the many resources accessible from the St. George’s library website.
Scratch: Videos and guides for programming language developed by MIT for ages 8-16 (but used by all ages). Program, create, and share interactive stories, games and animation.
Book wish list
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Recommended reading
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