Laurie’s Picks for Teachers’ Convention


I always enjoy my time at various teachers’ conventions around and about Edmonton and northern Alberta and am glad to share the lists of books that I recommend for teachers, reading specialists, librarians and, of course, their students!



2010 Northern Central Alberta Teachers’ Convention


Children’s Titles


  1. Bullet    Hush Little Dragon, by Boni Ashburn

  2. Bullet    Clever Rachel, by Debby Waldman

  3. Bullet    True Story, by Marty Chan

  4. Bullet    Return to the Hundred Acre wood, David Benedictus & M Burgess

  5. Bullet    The Sounds of Colours, by Jimmy Liao

  6. Bullet    Canada Counts, by Charles Patcher

  7. Bullet    The Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman

  8. Bullet    The Invention of Hugo Cabret, by Brian Selznick

  9. Bullet    Little Brother, by Corey Doctorow


Non-Fiction


  1. Bullet    Too Close to the Falls, by Catherine Gildiner

  2. Bullet    After the Falls, by Catherine Gildiner

  3. Bullet    What is Stephen Harper Reading?, by Yann Martell

  4. Bullet    Eric Clapton: the Autobiography

  5. Bullet    Riding with Rilke, by Ted Bishop


Fiction


  1. Bullet    Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, by Seth Grahame-Smith & Jane Austin

  2. Bullet    The Golden Mean, by Annabel Lyon

  3. Bullet    The Bishop’s Man, by Linden MacIntyre

  4. Bullet    Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, by Alan Bradley

  5. Bullet    Gargoyle, by Andrew Davidson

  6. Bullet    The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, by Steig Larsson

  7. Bullet    The Girl Who Played with Fire, Steig Larsson

  8. Bullet    The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Schaffer

  9. Bullet    The Uncommon Reader, Alan Bennett



2009 Greater Edmonton Teachers’ Conventions


Children’s Titles


  1. Bullet    Scaredy Squirrel Makes a Friend, by Melanie Watt

  2. Bullet    Scaredy Squirrel at the Beach, by Melanie Watt

  3. Bullet    Chester and Chester’s Back!, by Melanie Watt

  4. Bullet    A Really Short History of Everything, by Bill Bryson

  5. Bullet    Dangerous Book for Boys, Canadian edition, by Roy MacGregor

  6. Bullet   Daring Book for Girls, pocket edition

  7. Bullet   The Shadow of Malabron, by Thomas Warton

  8. Bullet    Gravity Journal, by Gail Sobat

  9. Bullet    The Phantom Tollbooth, by Norton Juster


Non-Fiction


  1. Bullet    Payback, by Margaret Atwood

  2. Bullet    What is America?, by Ronald Wright

  3. Bullet    The Illustrated Short History of Progress, by Ronald Wright

  4. Bullet    The Ascent of Money, by Niall Ferguson

  5. Bullet    Bite of a Mango, by Mariatu Kamara

  6. Bullet    Earth Then & Now


Fiction


  1. Bullet    Through Black Spruce by Joseph Boyden

  2. Bullet    Born with a Tooth, by Joseph Boyden

  3. Bullet    Good to a Fault, by Marina Endicott

  4. Bullet    The Outlander, by Gil Adamson

  5. Bullet    The Flying Troutmans, by Miriam Toews

  6. Bullet    The Cellist of Sarajevo, by Steven Galloway

  7. Bullet    The Book of Negroes, by Lawrence Hill

  8. Bullet    1,000 Splendid Suns, by Khaled Hosseini   

  9. Bullet    People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks

  10. Bullet    Gods Behaving Badly, by Marie Phillips

       











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