WORLD BOOK ONLINE
Now available to students of WRCA at school or at home.
Includes: Encyclopedia, atlas, and dictionary, plus related magazine articles, study skill tips and more - CHECK IT OUT!

www.worldbookonline.com
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Password: Check with your teacher or librarian.

LIBRARY CATALOGUE
Search our Library catalogue from home and discover Research links on our new Home Page
OPAC Link

Homework

Need help with homework?
Free online help from real tutors is available through your Public Libraries:

Fraser Valley Regional Library - www.fvrl.bc.ca
Click on: You've Got Homework - We've Got Help
Hours of operation: 3pm-10pm every day
Grades 4-12, Core subjects (excluding French)
Requirements: FVRL card and ID#

Surrey Public Library - www.spl.surrey.bc.ca
Click on: Live Homework Help
Hours of operation: 6pm-9pm, Sundays-Thursdays
Grades 6-12, Core subjects (excluding French)
Requirements: SPL card

Parent Library

Take advantage of our books for Parents
Some examples:

'Reviving Ophelia: Saving the selves of Adolescent girls' by Mary Pipher

'Raising Self-Reliant Children in a Self-Indulgent World: Seven building blocks for developing capable young people' by H. Stephen Glenn

'Raising your Spirited Child: A guide for Parents whose child is more intense, sensitive, perceptive,persistent, energetic' by Mary Sheedy Kurcinka


Welcome to the WRCA Library!!

It is our goal to celebrate the importance and enjoyment of reading and literacy with the students at WRCA!!

The Library serves as a resource center for teachers and students, providing curriculum support and quality literature. New resources are continually being added to keep the collection current.

Weekly elementary classes encourage reading, teach Library research skills and provide a regular opportunity for students to access books.


Upcoming Events:


READING LINK CHALLENGE
Grades 4 & 5: The two teams are reading the selected books and meeting to prepare for their challenge on Tuesdays at lunch.

Wednesday, January 20 (1:15-2:15pm) - Author reading by Chris McMahen at WR Library
Tuesday, February 2 (10:20-11:30am) - In-School Challenge (in the Chapel)
Monday, March 1 - (1:30-2:30) - Inter-School Challenge vs. Peace Arch and WR Elementary Schools at WR Library

ELEMENTARY READING CLUB
Grades 3-5: Beginning in February, meeting at noon in the Library on Thursdays. Students will be reading selected books from the Chocolate Lily Book Awards, to prepare for voting.

SCHOLASTIC BOOK FAIR
TBA - Spring 2010


Some New Books


High School/Middle School Fiction:
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing - M.T. Anderson - FIC AND
The Boy in the Stripped Pajamas: a Fable - John Boyne - FIC BOY
Chosen - Ted Dekker - FIC DEK
Vanished - Alton Gansky - FIC GAN
A Wolf Story - James Huggins - FIC HUG
The Secret Countess - Eva Ibbostson - FIC IBB
Vinyl Cafe Diaries - Stuart McLean - FIC MCL
A Perfect Gentle Knight - Kit Pearson - FIC PEA
The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner's Dilemma - Trenton Lee Stewart - FIC STE
Alexandra of Africa - Eric Walters - FIC WAL
Feathers - Jacqueline Woodson - FIC WOO

High School/Middle School Non-Fiction:
Blue Like Jazz - Donald Miller - 277.3 MIL
After Gandhi: One Hundred Years of Non-Violent Resistance - Anne O'Brien - 303.6 OBR
Free the Children - Craig Kielburger - 331.1 KIE
Stones into Schools - Greg Mortenson - 371.823 MOR
Peaceful Heroes - Jonah Winter - 920.02 WIN

Elementary Fiction:
Crispin: Cross of Lead - Avi - FIC AVI
Iron Thunder: the battle between the Monitor & Merrimac: A Civil War Story - Avi - FIC AVI
Harry the Poisonous Centipede - Lynne Reid Banks - FIC BAN
Elijah of Buxton - Christopher Paul Curtis - FIC CUR
The Changeling - Jerry Jenkins - FIC JEN
True North: a Novel of the Underground Railroad - Kathryn Lasky - FIC LAS
Edward's Eyes - Patricia MacLachlan

Elementary Non-Fiction:
Love your Planet: How to take care of the plants, the animals, and the planet - Dawn Sirett - 333.72 SIR
Polar Worlds: Life at the ends of the earth - Robert Bateman - 591.75 BAT
The Story of Inventions - Anna Claybourne - 609 CLA
Sustainable Farming - Carol Ballard - 630 BAL
101 Ways you can help save the Planet before you're 12! - Joanne O'Sullivan - 640 OSU
Usborne Art Ideas: Drawing Faces - Rosie Dickins - 741.5 DIC
363 Things to Make and Do - Fiona Watt - 745.5 WAT
The Usborne Book of Famous Paintings - Rosie Dickins - 759.05 DIC
The Winter Olympics: an Insider's guide to the Legends, the Lore, and the Game: Vancouver Ed - Ron Judd - 796.98 JUD
Usborne True Stories: The Wild West - Henry Brook - 978 BRO

Primary Fiction:
Jungle Grapevine - Alex Beard - FIC BEA
Mercy Watson: Something Wonky this way comes - Kate DiCamillo - FIC DIC
Once Upon a Twice - Denise Doyen - FIC DOY
Wendel and the Great One - Mike Leonetti - FIC LEO
Perfect Snow - Barbara Reid - FIC REI
Miss Fox's Class Goes Green - Eileen Spinelli - FIC SPI
The Busy Tree - Jennifer Ward - FIC WAR
The Old Woman who Swallowed a Fly - FIC WOM

Primary Non-Fiction:
I is for Inuksuk: an Arctic Celebration - Mary Wallace - 305.89 WAL
The Story of Rubbish - Katie Daynes - 363.72 DAY
Reptiles - Catriona Clarke - 597.9 CLA
There was an Old Monster - Rebecca Emberley - 782.42 EMB
Truckery Rhymes - Jon Scieszka - 811.54 SCI

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