Youth Summer Reading Club 2008

If you've come across this, you should be aware that this is old content… and you can find the 2009 Teen Summer Reading program here. Thanks to all who contributed in 2008!

Madonna has been around for ages. She’s like top-quality sticky glue; she sticks around for a long, long, long time. And out of all her famous songs (so what if I only know one?), one catchy chorus keeps running around inside my head: "Time goes by…so slowly…" Now, I’m usually not one to express my […]

Has anyone really realized what the date is?! It’s August 18, 2008. A thought suddenly came to me this morning while I was tapping my foot along to the beat of Coldplay’s Viva La Vida and racking my brains for yet another blog entry topic. I began the entry with the date, as always, but […]

            The Page and Screen Book Club at North York Central Library is a mixture of book club and sitting back and watching movies.  The premise is that the participants read the same book and watch the movie version at the meeting.  The books were voted on by the Writer’s Group at […]

I finally have time to sit down and type up another blog entry! After summer school, I started my volunteering experience at Sunnybrook Hospital. My first day was a blast. Luckily, I have the nicest supervisors on earth! (I have two supervisors) I thought the hospital would have a gloomy atmosphere. However, I was absolutely […]

The release of the movie, The Other Boleyn Girl drew even more fans to the popular historical fiction novels by Philippa Gregory. This fan-favourite was brought to justice in the book inspired film. Only a few subtle differences can be sought out, one of which was that the Boleyn girls were much older in the […]

Gotcha! This title is not only catchy (albeit slightly cheesy,) it is also the name of the traditional graduation game Slippery Rock High. This game has been banned by the school because of, uh, incidents that happened in the previous years. But who are this year’s grads to break a tradition? The rules of Gotcha […]

In Eoin Colfer’s sixth book, child prodigy Artemis Fowl’s adventure continues, with one difference. He’s not a child anymore. He is now actually seventeen years old, although technically, he’s only fourteen, due to the time he spent in limbo in the previous book. If you think that’s confusing, just try reading this book. Time travel […]

    Mistress of the Sun is a novel set in France during the reign of King Louis. It follows the story of a young girl, Louise de la Valliere, known as Petite, as she grows from a young girl to a woman in the king’s court.    The novel starts with six-year-old Louise. Even […]

    This is a story about Amir, a young boy growing up in Afghanistan in the 1960s. He is the son of a wealthy businessman, and lives a privileged life in an affluent neighbourhood. However, he is not completely happy. Amir struggles to win his father’s affections, but always feels like he comes up […]