Annotation: Jake Simmons hates The Regency, the decrepit old apartment building he has been forced to move into with his mother. Nothing works at The Regency, it’s a dump and despite his mother saying it is only temporary, even living in the dump for a short period of time is too much! Jake also hates …
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Mandate Board of Directors History Reports
Past Red Cedar Book Awards Winners Complete List: 1998 – Present Printable List 2022 FICTION Tanya Lloyd Kyi, Me and Banksy, Penguin Random House, 2020 2022 NON-FICTION Tanya Lloyd Kyi and Drew Shannon, Non-Fiction – This is Your Brain on Stereotypes: How Science is Tackling Unconscious Bias by Tanya Lloyd Kyi and Drew Shannon, Kids …
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2023-2024 Nominees Printable List To find Red Cedar Book Award resources, including downloads, please click on the book’s cover image. To learn more about the nominees, click on the book, creators, and publisher links. Cover Title Author Illustrator Publisher Pub Date Arab Fairy Tale Feasts Karim Alrawi Nahid Kazemi Tradewind Books 2022 Better Connected: How …
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2023-2024 Nominees Printable List To find Red Cedar Book Award resources, including downloads, please click on the book’s cover image. To learn more about the nominees, click on the book, creators, and publisher links. Cover Title Author Illustrator Publisher Pub Date Apartment 713 Kevin Sylvester Harper Collins Canada 2022 Autumn Bird and the Runaway Melanie …
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For Red Cedar Leaders! A message from Sigmund Brouwer: The presentation, Vimy Ridge Today, tells the story of how Canadians succeeded (without any spoilers for the students reading the book!). Along the way, I encourage students to use story as foundation in their own expository writing. I also celebrate the ways that teachers in the …
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South Sahali Elementary’s interview with Yoland Ridge, author of Inside Hudson Pickle Was the fire based on a true story? If it was, did the fire hurt anybody? The fire was not based on one true story but a combination of two. When I was in University, a friend really did fall asleep with the …
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Red Cedar Award nominee Kathleen Cherry visited Mile 108 Elementary and presented to their enthusiastic and long-standing Red Cedar club. Kathleen sent us this awesome photos of her and group leader Lynn McArthur with the Mile 108 Elementary Red Cedar club! Thanks so much for sharing this!