Ms. Friesen - Library
Ms. Friesen Welcomes You to the Library
The Library continues to be an exciting and interesting place to be. There is always something new waiting to be learned. The Library is open during regular school hours. We also have parent resources, encompassing a variety of topics, available for loan.
Forest of Reading
The "Forest of Reading" program is Canada's largest reading program and consists of Canadian content only. It offers seven reading programs to encourage the love of reading in our students.
Our Library is fortunate to have a full selection of the following Forest of Reading Books - Blue Spruce (children's picture books ages 5 to 7); Silver Birch Express (readers in grades 3 to 6); Silver Birch Fiction and Non-Fiction (readers in grades 5 and 6); Red Maple (readers in grades 7 and 8) which we are proud to promote.
Look for these Blue Spruce Award Winners in our Library: "A Flock of Shoes", "Giraffe and Bird", "Kiss Me!", "Noni Says No", "Small Saul", "Little Hummingbird", "Making the Moose Out of Life", "One Hockey Night", "Roslyn Rutabaga and the Biggest Hole on Earth!", "Stanley's Little Sister".
The following Silver Birch Express Award winning books can be found in our Library: "All Aboard! Elijah McCoy's Steam Engine", "Banjo of Destiny", "Canadian Railroad Trilogy", "The Gargoyle Overhead", "The Last Loon", "Our Earth: How Kids are Saving the Planet", "Saving Arm Pit", The Time Time Stopped", "Uumajut: Learn About Arctic Wildlife!", "When Apples Grew Noses and White Horses Flew: Tales of Ti-Jean Jan Andrews".
Our Silver Birch Fiction books include: "Better than Weird", "Crossing to Freedom", "Ghost Messages", "Ghosts of the Titanic", "The Glory Wind", "The McGullicuddy Book of Personal Records", "Milo: Sticky Notes and Brain Freeze", "Neil Flambe and the Aztec Abduction", "That Boy Red", "Undergrounders".
The Silver Birch Non-Fiction books include: "50 Poisonous Questions: A Book With Bite", "Africans Thought of It: Amazing Innovations", "Animals That Changed the World", "Case Closed? Nine Mysteries Unlocked by Modern Science", "Don't Touch That Toad and Other Strange Things Adults Tell You", "Game Day: Meet the People Who Make It Happen", "Highway of Heroes", "Mathemagic! Number Tricks", "Totally Human: Why We Look and Act the Way We Do", "Who Wants Pizza? The Kids' Guide to the History, Science & Culture of Food".
The Red Maple Award winning titles include: "Dear George Clooney Please Marry My Mom", "Dust City", "Fanatics", "Fly Boy", "Half Brother", "Haunting Violet", "Home Truths", "No Safe Place" "Thunder Over Kandahar", "Torn From Troy".
New Books
We have a great selection of new reading material for our Thundercats of all ages. This year's focus has been on increasing the number of offerings in our intermediate fiction section.