Kathleen Cherry visits Mile 108 Elementary!

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!

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Get Ready to Vote!

It is time to start voting for your favourite Red Cedar Award book(s)! Voting runs from May 1 – 31, 2023 and all you need to do is go to (well, also read the great Canadian Red Cedar Award titles too!) https://www.redcedaraward.ca/

YRCABC: Vision and Values

    In 1996, when the YRCABC came into existence, it had 3 goals: Encourage students in grades 4-7 to read more Create an awareness of Canadian books and authors Develop children’s ability to judge published works The YRCABC strategic plan has evolved to include currently both the Society and the Award but we still …

YRCABC: Leadership

Directors   President Marilyn MacPherson Marilyn is a librarian with a passion for developing children’s literacy and promoting Canadian Kidlit. As a school trustee in Jasper, Alberta, Marilyn founded a writer-in residence program which introduced kids and the community to local authors like Jan Truss, W. O. Mitchell, and Rudy Wiebe. In her free time, …

Fiction: Weird Rules to Follow

Annotation: Mia and Laura have been BBFs since Kindergarten. Growing up on the same block, who wouldn’t be?  But now, they are 10.  Nearly teenagers.  And everything seems to be changing ever so slowly.  When they were little the fact that Mia is Indigenous and Laura is White Mexican Hungarian didn’t really matter.  But the …

Fiction: Apartment 713

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 …