Throughout the week, the Performing Arts Centre Foyer was abuzz with the annual Book Fair, where students had the opportunity to immerse themselves in stories, fuel their imaginations, and discover new interests. Guest readers from our commun...
I have a love/hate relationship with book fairs. I love how excited the students get, and I love all the shiny, new books. I enjoy the themes (when it's a good one), and I like decorating. Then the book fair opens... If you've new and you haven't experienced book fair week ...
Our book cover competition encourages students to delve deeper into the themes of their favorite books. With either online design tools or with a paintbrush in hand, students create new covers for their favorite books. In their works,...
On the podcastArt Works, produced by the National Endowment for the Arts, Tiya discusses the challenges of writing a novel as an historian, the freedom in fiction to explore new themes and ideas, and how her experiences writing her debut novel helped shaped her writing inAll That She Carried...
I have enjoyed reading several novels by Moss over the years which often deal with food and illness, and her latest memoir is a complex account about these themes and also addresses control, memory and unreliable narrators. She writes about her emotionally neglectful childhood in Manchester and ...
Fiction or nonfiction, if you commonly lose interest in your book somewhere in what I call the Marathon of the Middle, you likely didn’t start with enough exciting ideas. That’s why and outline (or a basic framework) is essential. Don’t even start writing until you’re confident your...
Still. This is, to be fair, one of the less antagonistic things she’s thrown at me these days; almost an invitation to dialogue and conversation. I take it. Jane: I love my friends and they’re amazing. What? Who’s weird? Flora: You’re friends with like, anti-maskers and anti...
The concept of free will is popular because it is self-deterministic, appealing to both secular and religious thinkers for its themes of empowerment and explanation for the maladies and majesty of human accomplishment. But what if it is actually an illusion? What if free will isn’t quite as...
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrowis the kind of immersive, powerful read that only comes along once in a great while. I found it moving and profound, and even several days after finishing the book, I’m still caught up in thoughts about its themes and images. ...
But Chester has also befriended a non-ghost named Amie, and she is coming over to work on their science fair project. Amie has a surprising idea for this project, and Simon and Chester’s friendship will be put to the test as a result. Will Simon behave? Will Amie come between the ...