Book Club will be reading sophie's world over the summer - sign your copy out asap!
Sophie's world, by Jostein Gaarder
Author visit friday may 17th |
Diana Morita Clark will be speaking about her memoir, Sideways: Memoir of a Misfit this Friday in honouring Asian Heritage month.
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Blind date with a book & chocofeller chocolates
Happy Valentine's Day!
Want to go on a blind date with a book & win some chocofeller chocolates? Come sign out a "mystery" (wrapped) book and enter your name into the draw. Blind date with a book will last a week, from
Feb. 14th - Feb. 21st.
Want to go on a blind date with a book & win some chocofeller chocolates? Come sign out a "mystery" (wrapped) book and enter your name into the draw. Blind date with a book will last a week, from
Feb. 14th - Feb. 21st.
Book club 2018-19
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Thank you to all who participated in DEAR on Monday October 22nd! One of my favourite events of the year.
Book club reads 2017-18
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A special thank you to the LVR PAC for their $500.00 grant towards the purchase of our selection of Book Club novels this year!
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Nine classes participated in the annual Write for Rights
December 13 & 14!
Thank you Amnesty group for hosting the event in the Library!
December 13 & 14!
Thank you Amnesty group for hosting the event in the Library!
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Drop Everything and Read tremendous school-wide participation, 2017! |
LVR book club is back!
Over 30 students showed up to our first book club meeting in September! If you're interested in participating, come to our next meeting or see Ms. Martin.
Previous book club titles: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Bradley), The Hidden Keys (Alexis), The Heart Goes Last (Atwood), The Ocean at the End of the Lane (Gaiman), Fifteen Dogs (Alexis), Leviathan (Westerfeld), Station Eleven (Mandel), Pastoral (Alexis), The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Boyne). You may have noticed there are 3 titles by Andre Alexis...if you're curious why, you'll have to come find out!
Previous book club titles: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Bradley), The Hidden Keys (Alexis), The Heart Goes Last (Atwood), The Ocean at the End of the Lane (Gaiman), Fifteen Dogs (Alexis), Leviathan (Westerfeld), Station Eleven (Mandel), Pastoral (Alexis), The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Boyne). You may have noticed there are 3 titles by Andre Alexis...if you're curious why, you'll have to come find out!
Welcome back! The books missed you :)
What did you read this summer? Come enter our annual "what did you read this summer" draw. You can enter your name as many times as books you read! We'll draw 3 names Friday October 6th and winners will receive a $25.00 certificate to Otter Books!
BC Book prize Author visit: April 12, 2017
Vancouver born author, Jen Sookfong Lee, visited with an English 9 & English 11 class this afternoon in the LVR library. Her recent novel, The Conjoined, is shortlisted for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. Jen spoke of her love of writing since high school and shared many humourous stories. She is an accomplished writer of several other novels: The Better Mother, The End of East, and Shelter. She teaches writing in the continuing studies departments at both Simon Fraser University and the University of British Columbia.
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The Conjoined - On a sunny May morning, social worker Jessica Campbell sorts through her mother’s belongings after her recent funeral. In the basement, she makes a shocking discovery — two dead girls curled into the bottom of her mother’s chest freezers. She remembers a pair of foster children who lived with the family in 1988: Casey and Jamie Cheng — troubled, beautiful, and wild teenaged sisters from Vancouver’s Chinatown. After six weeks, they disappeared; social workers, police officers, and Jessica herself assumed they had run away.
As Jessica learns more about Casey, Jamie, and their troubled immigrant Chinese parents, she also unearths dark stories about Donna, whom she had always thought of as the perfect mother. The complicated truths she uncovers force her to take stock of own life. Moving between present and past, this riveting novel unflinchingly examines the myth of social heroism and traces the often-hidden fractures that divide our diverse cities. |
Freedom to Read Week is an annual event that encourages Canadians to think about and reaffirm their commitment to intellectual freedom, which is guaranteed them under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Freedom to Read Week is organized by the Freedom of Expression Committee of the Book and Periodical Council.
Freedom to Read Week is organized by the Freedom of Expression Committee of the Book and Periodical Council.
The LVR Library is hosting the 2nd annual Freedom To Read Reading Marathon on Friday March 3rd from 12:30-3:20. If you want to participate, come see Ms. Martin in the library and pick up a permission form to be signed by your afternoon classroom teachers. We'll create a cozy, quiet environment for us to read whatever we choose uninterrupted for three hours.
