The Kingdom Keepers written by Ridley Pearson is set in Disneyland after dark.
“Five young teens tapped as models for theme park “guides” find themselves pitted against Disney villains and witches who threaten both the future of Walt Disney World and the stability of the world outside it’s walls.”
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This video is the author discussing the book.
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I love reading James Patterson’s novels. I was thrilled when I first found out he also wrote for children.
The Maximum Ride series is up to its sixth novel in the series (Fang) and it is ready to borrow.
James Patterson also writes the Daniel X series and Witch & Wizard series (2nd one recently released).
These books are also thriller, action and “Go, go, go”.
This is James talking about the book.
This is a fan made trailer for the up coming movie of the Maximum Ride book (due 2013).
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED AUTHOR & SERIES
If you liked the pace of the Stormbreaker novels then try any of James Patterson’s novels suggested above.
PS: Witch and Wizard is also being made into a movie! WOW!
We have new books in the library and just not enough time to read them all.
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Our Australian Girl
Our Australian Girl series are written by a Australian authors (like the Aussie Nibbles series) with the added bonus of being Australian and filled with history. Fantastic for teaching the Australian Curriculum. They have been described as character based Australian novels.
Read more about these books at Penguin’s website Our Australian Girl series. Read extracts from the books here.
The Tomorrow series
The Tomorrow Girls series is for older girls. Read the review here for Behind the Gates (1st in the series). It reminds me a bit of the Tomorrow series by John Marsden.
Lara Bergen’s new series is on the shelves- The Sophie series. Sophie is an adventurous girl who is in search for a name that defines her….. daredevil, awesome, chatterbox…..
Great read for girls in the Lower/Middle Primary.
If you have read some of these why not play the online game from Scholastic website and test your Sophie knowledge.
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It’s going to be a READING year!
This You Tube subscription has videos from famous authors and celebrities and official partners for the National Year of Reading.
This is ALISON LESTER and her thoughts about reading.
Alison’s book Noni the Pony.
One of my favourite ways to differentiate in the classroom is to design inquiry using Bloom’s Taxonomy.
Colleen Young has gathered some of the many resources created to support the teaching with Bloom’s into her LIVEBINDER simply called Bloom’s Taxonomy.
Rethink your teaching and use Bloom’s as just one of the tools to support your students with ICT and Information Literacy!
Don’t Bookmark, Curate Online Content
“A content curation tool, in simple English, lets you easily pull videos, images, presentations, tweets, blog posts and other web content into a collection which you can then embed, publish or share online. I have been testing a few online curation tools and here’s a quick review of them all to help you pick the right one for your needs.”
Blog post by Amit Agarwal (Digital Inspiration)
Joyce Valenza also discusses the place of curation tools in researching.She called curation “the new search tool“.
AND check out this LIVEBINDER by Carolyn Jo Starkey.
This concept seems like a great way to share easily from many places.
I use a variety of tools but this seems like the way to go. Anything that makes researching and collaboration simpler is a good idea.
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