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Dear parents and students,



Welcome back! I’m really looking forward to working with the Williamson Road School community to promote a love of reading for pleasure and for information.



Students are encouraged to take care of their library books by keeping books away from pets and babies and avoiding eating while reading. If your child loses a library book, encourage your child to look under the bed and under the couch – books like to hide there. If your child still cannot find the book, I ask that students pay $5.00 for each missing book or, the student can bring a book from home that is in good condition.

 

Reading Suggestions



For boys and girls in the primary grades, I recommend the Magic Tree House series. The main characters, Jack and his sister Annie, have discovered that their magic tree house can whisk them off to fabulous faraway places where they face important challenges. In the first volume, Dinosaurs Before Dark, the brother and sister are whisked away to the prehistoric past and they must figure out how to get home before they become a dinosaur’s dinner. ROAR!



I know that the Hunger Games trilogy was very popular last year. For boys and girls who liked that trilogy, I recommend Margaret Peterson Haddix’s Shadow Children series, beginning with Among the Hidden.



‘Luke has never been to school. He’s never had a birthday party, or gone to a friend’s house for an overnight. In fact, Luke has never had a friend.

Luke is one of the shadow children, a third child forbidden by the Population Police. He’s lived his entire life in hiding, and now, with a new housing development replacing the woods next to his family’s farm, he is no longer even allowed to go outside.

Then, one day Luke sees a girl’s face in the window of a house where he knows two other children already live. Finally, he’s met a shadow child like himself. Jen is willing to risk everything to come out of the shadows – does Luke dare to become involved in her dangerous plan? Can he afford not to?”



For primary students in the French Immersion program, I recommend, Samsam l’école des héros, with its fun illustrations, short and simple text and of course, amusing story line.



For students in the junior grades of the French Immersion program, I recommend, Horus 1. L’enfant à tête de faucon. This fabulous graphic novel takes place in ancient Egypt and follows the adventures of Nofret who needs to decide whether she should marry or become a priestess. Meanwhile the god Horus has come back to earth in the form of a young boy with the head of a falcon.



I urge you to keep checking this site throughout the year for great book and technology resource suggestions.