January 19th, 2015
Library News!
The Red Maple 2015 reading contest has gotten off to a very successful start with about 60 Razorbacks participating. Students are busy reading the 10 books short listed in each of the fiction and the non-fiction categories of the Ontario School Library Association’s Red Maple Award. Students who read at least 5 of the 10 titles in either category are able to vote for their favourite book when voting takes place across the province towards the end of April. What makes this award unique is that the winner is chosen by the students!
Regardless of how many books the students do read, they may read as few or as many of the books as they choose, by participating they are able to enjoy some of the best books being published in Canada. There is a Red Maple bulletin board in the library where students keep track of what they’ve read and where they can also share their opinions on books for the other students to enjoy. Thousands of Ontario students will be reading the same selected titles across the province.
Students may still continue to sign up in the library if they’d like to join this Canadian contest.
For more information check out the WRDSB Library Learning Commons website: http://library.wrdsb.ca
The 10 fiction titles selected this year are:
- 1. Boundless by Kenneth Oppel
- The Comic Book War by Jacqueline Guest
- Dead Man’s Switch by Sigmund Brouwer
- How To Outrun a Crocodile When Your Shoes are Untied by Jess Keating.
- Out Side In by Sarah Ellis
- The Rule of Three by Eric Walters
- The Strange Gift of Gwendolyn Golden by Philippa Dowding
- Summer Days, Starry Nights by Vikki VanSickle
- Unspeakable by Caroline Pignat
- Zomboy by Richard Scrimger
The 10 non-fiction titles selected this year are:
- Growing Up, Inside and Out by Kira Vermond, Carl Chin
- It’s Catching: The Infectious World of Germs and Microbes by Jennifer Gardy, Josh Holinaty
- The Last Train: A Holocaust Story by Rona Arato
- Legends, Icons & Rebels: Music That Changed The World by Robbie Robertson, Sebastian Robertson
- Looks Like Daylight: Voices of Indigenous Kids by Deborah Ellis
- Pay It Forward Kids: Small Acts, Big Change by Nancy Runstedler
- Real Justice: Sentenced to Life at Seventeen: The story of David Milgaard by Cynthia J. Faryon
- Starting From Scratch: What You Should Know About Food and Cooking by Sarah Elton, Jeff Kulak
- We Are Canada by Rikla Saddy, Cameron McLellan
- Why Do We Fight?: Conflict, War, and Peace by Niki Walker