1. Do you want to enjoy a journey back in time, uncovering the exciting adventures of five generations of unforgettable pioneer girls and their families? Then you have to read the “Little House” books.
2. The Nightmare Room series is just the thing for our boys. On the site you will find information on the books, an online story and more
3. This is a fun filled sight with lots of online games. A few examples are: write your own story, puzzles games, quizzes and polls and lots more. This is for that day that we have to stay in the house and you like the kids to have fun, but still learn something.
4. 
Eric Wilson is a award winning Canadian writer who cares about our children. Here is a list of the books he has written so far. You can read the first chapter online.
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Where the Red Fern Grows. Plot Summary: (quoted from the website)
Billy is growing up dirt-poor in the Ozarks during the Depression. More than anything he wants a pair of redbone coon hounds. As it is financially out of the question for his parents to buy them, he works and saves for two years to buy them himself, then hikes barefoot sixty miles round-trip over the mountains and through the woods to the nearest town to pick them up. He then spends months training the pups to be the best coon hounds in the hills.
His dreams all come true as he spends every night out hunting in the hills with his dogs, and their fame spreads far and wide. Billy and his dogs are so good that his grandfather enters them in a championship coon hunt against grown men.
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Castle in the Attic by Elizabeth Winthrop is a book recommended by my son in Gr 6.
Ten year old William can’t wait to play with the mysterious castle his housekeeper, Mrs. Phillips, has given him. For years she has been telling him about the old stone and wood model with its drawbridge, moat and the finger-high knight to guard the gates. And now it is his.
But when William learns that Mrs. Phillips is going back to England to live with her brother, he vows to find a way to keep Mrs. Phillips with him forever. And when he breaks the spell cast on the tiny silver knight, he suddenly knows how to do it.
But William’s big idea turns out to be the worst mistake of his life!
This is an enthralling story of magic and fantasy, which weaves the everyday problems of growing up into the age-old battle between good and evil. William’s quest takes him on a journey to a land where he must fight a ferocious dragon, a wicked wizard and worst of all, the darkness within himself.
“A satisfying quest fantasy with a strong element of modern realism which will appeal to a wide range of readers.” -School Library Journal
Is Allie being haunted — again?
Just a few short weeks ago, Allie encountered her first ghost, the spirit of a murdered girl. Now another ghost has entered Allie’s life! The ghost points Allie in the direction of Mrs. Hobbs, the scary cafeteria lady. Did Mrs. Hobbs have anything to do with the death of the ghost? Allie’s life suddenly becomes complicated, with mysterious fires breaking out wherever she turns. Her best friend is mad at her, and soon she is in danger, along with her little brother — but from whom?
Read Chapter One online
8. Bud Not Buddy
by Christopher Paul Curtis
In this Newbery Award winning book we are asked to believe that a ten-year-old boy, without resources other than his own self-constructed list of rules “to Have a Funner Life and Make a Better Liar Out of Yourself”, will find love, a home and a real family. Such is the skill of Christopher Paul Curtis that we take all that and more with hardly a nod toward the percentages. Meet Bud, not Buddy, one of the most delightful young people you’ll ever know. He belongs right in there with Maniac Magee (http://www.carolhurst.com/titles/maniacmagee.html) and others of their ilk who enlighten the human experience for readers and make us wish we could step into the action to help.
Bud’s mother has been dead for four years when this novel opens and Bud is in an orphanage. He holds all the remnants of his once loving home in a cardboard suitcase: some flyers advertising Herman F. Calloway and various bands, a few mysteriously labeled rocks and his blanket. Soon he is farmed out to a foster home where he is abused. After pausing to wreak a funny, mild vengeance, Bud strikes out on his own, determined to walk from Flint, Michigan to Grand Rapids, the city listed in one of the flyers. Bud is convinced that his father must be Herman F. Calloway.
There are, of course, many set-backs on the way and many people who lend a hand. At the mission where Bud is too late for the evening meal, another homeless family pretends that he’s with them. A very kind man who turns out to be a labor union organizer finds Bud hiding at the side of the road near a very intolerant village and takes Bud home to his own family before transporting him to his supposed father.
Having reached his destination, Bud’s search must continue. He is still a child in search of family as it turns out that the musician cannot possibly be his father.
Bud’s irrepressible good nature, his innocence and his survival skills make him memorable. His literal interpretation of language, his belief system which includes vampires, tokens and ritual behavior all serve to allow us to see the world through the eyes of a ten year old.
The setting in the 30s, the height of the Great Depression and the small tastes of racism that the author weaves in so skillfully make this book stand head and shoulders above the crowd.
Amanda’s book review of “No Safe Harbor” by Julie Lawson
The book I read is about a very gruesome and devastating event; the explosion that took place in the Halifax harbor in 1917 when two ships collided. It is written in diary form so it is from one girl, Charlotte Blackburn’s, point of view.
The book starts off with a letter from her brother, Luke, who is off fighting in the war in France. He is the one who sent her the diary. Then Charlotte begins her entries. She has a pretty normal life, with a mom and a dad, one older brother (Luke), two older sisters (Edith and Ruth), a twin brother (Duncan), and a dog (Kristy). She does the milk run every Thursday with an elderly man named Haggarty. She receives a letter from her brother almost monthly about his horrific life in the trenches.
Then the explosion occurred killing her mom, dad, and two older sisters. Charlotte’s twin was found alive and was healed. Her mother’s last words, “father……young” allowed her to find her long lost grandparents. Charlotte’s brother came home from the war as he was injured in a road side bomb, although he must return when he is healed.
So in the end she lives a good life with her twin and grandparents. I love how she described how the state of the pages helped tell the story in her dairy, so I will quote:
At the very beginning a few blotches of mud
from the trenches in France. Then nine
weeks or so of crisp, buff-colored pages marching
along in an orderly way, one day at a time.
For a month after that the pages are streaked with tears and
horribly marked with blood and soot. Little by little they begin to clear up, and in
the last few entries the pages are clean.
But the cover is scarred, like me.
I am in the process of reading the book My Life as a Broken Bungee Cord
by Bill Meyers. This book is about a group of good friends that go to a mountain resort.
They take a hot air balloon for a race with one of the friend’s brothers. They run into a
high flying, catastrophic, sad crash. One of them is hurt seriously with a broken leg, concussion and whatever else was wrong. The others build a camp and learn how lucky they are to still be alive. They also learn how much God really loves them. As the nights pass they try to save their lives. When… to be continued… you have to read on.
I recommend this book to anyone who wants a few laughs along the way of a reading an adventure. WARNING! Some religious stuff will occur.
I am reading a book called Bone-The Great Cow Race, by Jeff Smith.
This is the second book about three Bones from Boneville that get chased out of Boneville because Foney bone tries to open a chain of slaughter houses. They come across a desert when they find a map, then smiley bone laughs and says, “Look at those locusts.” The bugs chase them into a valley where they find Grandma Ben and thorn. Grandma enters the cow race, (as always). But Grandma Ben has a new competitor, The Mystery Cow. The rat creatures collide in the middle of the race.
If you want to know who wins, you’ll have to read the book and the whole trilogy. If you do not like graphic novels, you might want to read another book.
I am reading a novel called EXTREME BMX. I think it is a good book for everybody because it teaches you about a lot of BMX stuff. It’s got lots of tricks and I am in to bmxing. It is a good book because the book tells you about the parts on the bmx bike. The chapters are: extreme BMX, how it started, the bike, staying safe, biking for speed racing, to win, freestyle, the moves, taking it to the streets, flat land riding, hitting dirt, vert operations, freestyle competitions, famous bmxers, and want to go for a ride. That is my book that I am reading. Thank you for reading my paragraph
The book I read is Murder on the Canadian. It is a book about Tom who wants to become a detective because of all the Hardy Boys books he read. While he was on the Canadian prejudice is needed. A scream came from compartment C. It was the lady he had met in the dome restaurant the day before. She was dead in a pool of blood and there was a strange “nut” smell in the air. For a strange reason Tom had found out, the stab wounds did not kill her! Will he find out what did kill her? When he found the murderer he was trapped in a dark place! What will happen to Tom? Will he live or will he die? Will the murderer be captured, will he/she not? Read the book to find out! Where is all the prejudice? What happened and why?