Author:Elin Kelsey

Publisher: Owl Kids

Non-Fiction

This is not your typical book about the environment. Because Earth is not your typical planet.

It's a world where Video games are connected to gorillas and bees can help world Peace. Where buses can be powered by poop and Geckos can teach surgeons about bandages.

A world where hope is possible and so much more is sustainable-food, energy , cities. even happiness.

Author:Jill Maclean

Published:Fitzhenry & Whiteside

Fiction

An alcholic mother,a distracted father, a best friend who spends all his time with his new girlfriend and three relentless schoolyard bullies: Prinny Murphy's past , present and future certainly are tense. Adding to her misery,she still cannot escape the fact that she can not read well enough to quit remedial reading lessons.

Author:Helaine Becker
Publisher: Maple Tree Press
Non-Fiction

Every invention starts wiht a simple need.Do you need to know...
... How a stone floating in oil helped sailers find there way home?
...What is the connection between olive oil and books?
...What invention started as a tool of war but is now used in supermakets everyday?

Authors: Ann Love & Jane Drake

Publisher:Tundra Books

Non-Fiction
DID YOU KNOW?
-Humans domesticated the first animals around 10,500 B.C.
-Alexander the great named a captured city after his beloved dog ,Peritas.
-Julius ceaser had a pet Giraffe.
-romans added one glass wall to there marble fish tank to enchanance veiwing.

Authors: Ian Mcallister & Nicholas Read
Publisher:Orca Book Publishers
Non-Fiction

The Salmon bear, explorers the delicate balance that excists between the Grizzley ,Black and the spirit bears of the great bear rainforestand their natural enviroment on the central coast of British Columbia. Key to this relationship are the real salmon bears , born in the rivers each spring, who go out to sea juvenile and the returns as adults to spawn and die.

Check out this website looking more into the Salmon Bears book.

Author: Linda Granfield
Publisher:Scholastic Canada LTD
Non-Fiction

Every Canadian knows John Mccrae's famous words. But who knows the man behind the poem.
Follow John threw his childhood and teens; his love of family, animals and sports; his years in medicine and the militarty; until the fateful day during the first world war when the loss of freinds moved him to write that remarkable poem.

Author:Gillian Richardson

Publisher: Annick Press

Non-Fiction

Who knew that some animals can create explosions to gewt food or escape predators?Or that fireworks were once used to fight war ?

Believe it or not, some explosions are all around us, from the big bang that created the universe to the pop or seed pop, from the solar flares to the explosives gases lurking in a coal mine.

Author: Keltie Thomas
Publisher: Maple Tree Press
Non-Fiction

How Figure Skating Works answers all of these question and many many many more. Packed with legendary tales of the best Figure Skater to glide across the ice, fascinating "skate Bite" facts, Insider tips to help you perfect your own technique, and all of the dazziling science behhind sports. How figure Skating Works covers figure skating from an exiting angle.

Author: Valerie Wyatt

Publisher: Kids Can Press LTD

Non-Fiction

Why not start your own country? The Kingdom of Jason! The Republic of Katie! Let How To Bulid Your Own Country Be your guide to starting a nation from scratch. It'sas easy as 1,2,3.....

Step 1: Stake out your identity by creating a flag, writing a national anthem and putting your name on th map.

Step 2: Run the country byholding eletions forming a government and laying down the law.

Step 3: Meet the neighbours by joining international organization and finding allies who will help you face the big issues of the world.

Just think your own personal country! Even if you were only the size of a bathmat it would be all yours, and get ready to rule!

Authors: The editors of yes mag

Publisher: Kids Can Press

Non-Fiction

True or False? Aliens in New Mexico.

Bigfoot roams the wild of North America. Crop circles are made by extraterrestrial visitors. If you answered true to any of these statements , you have just been hoaxed You are not the only one- throughout history, people have fallen for hoaxes, fakes and misleading mistakes.

Check out their website for more great reading opportunities at Yes Mag.

Author: Daniels Loxton

Publisher:Kids Can Press LTD

Non Fiction

How we, and all living things came to be!

Evolution has shaped every facet of the living world, from the petals on the rose to the lungs of a whale to the scales of a long-extinct dinosaur. It has even helped shaped a brain like yours, clever enough to understand the working of nature.Can something as a complex and wondrous as the natural world be explained by simple theory.

Author: Gordon Korman

Publisher: Scholastic Canada Ltd.

Fiction

A monkey is missing. And not just any monkey - it's Cleo, friends of

savannah Drysdale and a certain Doberman named Luther. Savannah, Luther, and Savannah's friend Griffin and ben search everywhere for Cleo- but all they find is one very suspicious banana.

Author: Iain Lawerence

Publisher: Delacorte Press

Fiction

Once upon a time, there was a gaint named Collosso. he lived at th edge of the earth, in the castle made of white stone.He kept a thousand slaves to do his work,and a thousand more dreadful entertainments.

Author:Maureen Fergus

Publisher:Kids can Press LTD

Fiction

As a baby Ortega was taken away from his mother by scientists who taught him to talk , read and write. Now they want to send him to school. Even though he is stronger than a human that ever lived. Ortega is scared.

Author: Kevin Sylvester

Publisher: Key Poter Book Limited

Fiction

Marco Polo lay on his deathbed, smiling weakly at his loved one who had gatherd by his side. He tried to open his mouth to speak, but even that simple effort exhaust him. He lay still wishing he had the energy to tell them that he was ready to go. He had lived a good life, a long life, a wealthy life.

Author: Arthur Slade
Published:Harper Trophy Canada
Fiction

When Mr. Socrates, a memberof a shadowy Permanent association, hears of a hunchback infant with the ability to transform his appearence, he decides to take him in.

Author: Sharon Jenning
Publisher: Second Story Press
Fiction

My name is Leanna Mets (honest) and this is my book.
I'm part of a school writing club which is fantastic, since what I want to be a writer. My mother says that good don't grow up to be writer, they should be nurses or teachers. But it's the 1960s, not the olden days, and I think-I hope-thats she's wrong.

Author:Kate Jaimet
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Fiction

Who would want to join a club called Dunces Anonymous? It was a Dumb name. It was a Dumb idea. Still, what else could he do? He needed help. Josh was in terrible trouble, and he couldn't think of a way out of it by himself.

Author: Eric Walters

Publishser: Orca Book Publishers

Fiction

"There are many causes for which I am prepared to die, but none for which I am prepared to kill," Mr. Roberts said. "Does anybody know who said that?" "You, Mr. Roberts," Oswald said. Some of the cass luaghed. Mr. Roberts silnced them with a look. " I told you i pay more attention in class than you realize," Oswald said. "Even when my eyes are closed my mind is-" pg. 1

Author:Andreas Oertel
Publisher:Lobster Press
Fiction

Life is getting more dismal by the minute in the small town os saltana, Manitoba. Ever since the river dried up and the campers stopped coming, there haven't even been enough tourists to keep the local restaurant busy. Cody needs to find a way to put Saltana on the map before he is the only twelve year old left in town.

Silverbirch Book Club Blog Purpose

The purpose of the Silverbirch Club Blog is to engage students in reflection and dialogue of the books they are reading during the next few months. This year we have been pleasantly surprised by having more than 50 students within the Junior Grades sign up for the Silverbirch Reading Club and we realized that hearing their thoughts, feedback and reflections on a regular basis would be challenging. This blog forum not only provides students a voice but encourages peers to provide constructive feedback, making further connections to their reading experiences and asking questions along the way. Students write about what they are reading and include reading strategies such as inferencing, making connections, summarizing and/or evaluating the text. Enjoy :o)