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Canadian Student Research Centre
Resource title: Canadian Student Research Centre Author: EBSCOhost Bibliographic entry Ebsco Industries. (2012). Canadian Student Research Centre. Description This database is designed for students to access media and book sources through a search. It is has many features to assist with search terms including a visual search, sorting results and lexile. Reaction This is the…
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Story of a Girl by Sara Zarr (audiobook)
Book title: Story of a Girl (audiobook) Author: Sara Zarr Bibliographic entry Zarr, S. (2008). Story of a girl. New York, NY: Random House. Description 16 year old Deanna can’t get her life back on track after an incident at 13 when she was caught by her Dad naked with her boyfriend Tommy. The story is…
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Canadian Encyclopedia (online reference source)
Book title: The Canadian Encyclopedia Author: Historica-Dominion Bibliographic entry Historica-Dominion (Ed.). (2012). The Canadian encyclopedia. Retrieved from The Canadian Encyclopedia database. Description Organized by key people and events in Canadian history, the encyclopedia has fact-based articles searchable by keyword. It also recommends articles for browsing and links to a live bilingual blog that highlights different topics within…
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Bats: Furry fliers of the night by Mary Kay Carson (book app)
Book title: Bats: Furry fliers of the night Author: Mary Kay Carson Bibliographic entry Carson, M. K. (2012). Bats: Furry fliers of the night. Bookerella. Description This book app or bapp is a brand-new hybrid non-fiction book mixed with an ipad app. It is broken into seven chapters starting with descriptions of bats and their habitats…
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The Witch’s Boy by Michael Gruber (audiobook)
Book title: The Witch’s Boy (audiobook) Author: Michael Gruber Bibliographic entry Gruber, M., & O’Hare, D. P. (2005). The witch’s boy. New York: Harper Children’s Audio. Description Long long ago a boy named Lump is born to a witch. The prejudice he experiences his whole life, because of his facial deformity and strange behaviour, turn him into…
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Pyongyang: A journey in North Korea
Book title: Pyongyang: A journey in North Korea Author: Guy Delisle Bibliographic entry Delisle, G. (2007). Pyongyang: A journey in North Korea. Montreal, Canada: Drawn & Quarterly Books. Description This non-fiction graphic novel is about Delisle’s trip to North Korea to work in an animation studio there. Reaction The black and white drawings are simple and journalistic.…
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