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I Love Reading Club

Tuesday, Dec 11, 2012 at 6:14pm

$12.95

Come one, come all! We have a date for our next I Love Reading Club Winnipeg session. Who's ready for some great books?

Our winter session will be on Tuesdays, February 19, March 5, and March 19. We will be reading:
Tumbleweed Skies by Valerie Sherrard
Masterpiece by Elise Broach
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

The I Love Reading Club is a discussion group for enthusiastic readers in grades 4 to 6. The fee for the program will be 35$. Pre-registration is required.

Categories: Book Clubs, Winnipeg, Ongoing Kids Events in Winnipeg

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Tumbleweed Skies

- Valerie Sherrard

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The moment Ellie and her father pull up in front of Grandmother Acklebee's farm in Weybolt, Saskatchewan, Ellie knows she isn't wanted. But Ellie's father has just taken a job as a traveling salesman, and he has no other choice. The road is no place for a nine-year-old.

Ellie doesn't know her grandmother, but she learns quickly that the older woman blames her son-in-law and granddaughter for her daughter's death. And although her Uncle Roger is a kind man, Ellie is quickly cowed by the angry old woman, who shows her little kindness and no affection. Determined to survive the situation with her dignity intact, Ellie isn't about to show her grandmother that she can be hurt.

But how long can Ellie pretend that she doesn't care? And is there no way to melt her grandmother's heart? Set on the Canadian prairies of the mid-fifties, Tumbleweed Skies is a moving story of isolation, loneliness, and one family's journey to heal itself.

Masterpiece

- Elise Broach, Kelly Murphy

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A New York Times bestselling middle grade mystery novel full of adventure, friendship, and stolen art.

Marvin lives with his family under the kitchen sink in the Pompadays' apartment. He is very much a beetle. James Pompaday lives with his family in New York City. He is very much an eleven-year-old boy. After James gets a pen-and-ink set for his birthday, Marvin surprises him by creating an elaborate miniature drawing. James gets all the credit for the picture and before these unlikely friends know it they are caught up in a staged art heist at the Metropolitan Museum of Art that could help recover a famous drawing by Albrecht Dürer. But James can't go through with the plan without Marvin's help. And that's where things get really complicated (and interesting!). This fast-paced mystery will have young readers on the edge of their seats as they root for boy and beetle.

In Shakespeare's Secret Elise Broach showed her keen ability to weave storytelling with history and suspense, and Masterpiece is yet another example of her talent. This time around it's an irresistible miniature world, fascinating art history, all wrapped up in a special friendship-- something for everyone to enjoy.

Masterpiece is a 2009 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

A Wrinkle in Time

- Madeleine L'Engle

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One stormy night a strange visitor comes to the Murry house and beckons Meg, her brother, Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin O’Keefe on a most dangerous and fantastic journey—a journey that will threaten their lives and our universe. Now, 40 years after A WRINKLE IN TIME was first published to become one of the landmark books in children’s literature, SQUARE FISH is proud to present this Newbery Medal winner completely redesigned—and with bonus material, including an appreciation by Anna Quindlen, a new interview with Madeleine L’Engle, and the author’s Newbery Medal acceptance speech.