Newly Evaluated English Resources – September 2019
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Bringing Mental Health to Schools
This self-paced, online course for educators provides information on a vari…
Kids’ Quest
This online resource provides basic information for intermediate students o…
KidsHealth
KidsHealth is an online resource accessible to kids, teens, parents, and ed…
Social & Emotional Learning Resource Finder
This comprehensive resource finder for teachers provides current social-emo…
Stop Bullying
The topic of bullying is addressed head-on in this website, designed to exp…
Teen Mental Health
This Canadian website is designed to help educators facilitate student lear…
That’s Not Fair!
This online resource is designed to teach students in grades K-6 about the …
Common Sense Media
This online resource seeks to help parents and educators choose quality onl…
Great Spirit Hand
Great Spirit Hand is an online resource taking viewers on a journey of expl…
Live It
This BC-produced online resource provides access to live, real-time present…
Scratch
This educational website is designed to teach computational thinking and co…
U’mista Cultural Society: Exploring the Potlatch Collection
This comprehensive, multimedia resource provides a rich collection of high-…
Virtual Museum of New France
This vast, comprehensive website is a compendium of curated articles, compl…
My Deal with the Universe
Living in a house referred to as the “Jungle” does not help Daisy, a pre-te…
Sparks!
The story of August and Charlie, two feline friends with an unfortunate pas…
Almost Epic Squad, The: Mucus Mayhem
Thirteen-year-old Jessica uncovers that she possesses mysterious superpower…
Navigating Early
Following WWII, a young Jack Baker is sent to a boarding school, where he m…
Family Fletcher Takes Rock Island, The
When the Fletcher Family – four adopted boys and two dads – arrive at their…
Black Beach
Sixteen-year-old Tamera struggles to find her path in life as she deals wit…
Sparrow
The novel follows the life of an eighth-grade girl who struggles to fit in …
Brown Girl Dreaming
This award-winning memoir details the author’s life during the 1960s and 19…
Boneless Mercies, The
This fantasy novel, set in medieval Northern Europe, follows the story of f…
Pulse Point
This novel is set in an imagined, futuristic, post-climate change society, …
Ru
This fictionalized memoir records the author’s challenging transition as a …
Tomboy Survival Guide
Coyote’s engaging memoir traces life as a tomboy growing up in the Yukon, a…
Unexpected Everything, The
When seventeen-year-old Andie’s carefully planned summer—an internship for …
Upside of Hunger, The
This novel tells the tale of a young boy who, hungry for a better life, tri…
You Know Me Well
Despite having sat next to each other at school Kate and Mark have never sp…
Girls and Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape
This timely resource examines the current state of relationships between yo…
Your Happiest You: The Care and Keeping of Your Mind and Spirit
This engaging, relatable resource aims to help young girls live a fuller an…
Electric War, The: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Light the World
This engaging resource traces the development of the electrical system thro…
Introducing Epigenetics: A Graphic Guide
In a visual reference book that provides an introduction to the topic of ep…
Space!: The Universe as You’ve Never Seen It Before
The stars and planets come to life with bright, colourful, and high-tech im…
