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A Wrinkle in Time
This book is about Meg Murry, a fourteen year-old girl who is transported on an adventure through time and space with her younger brother Charles Wallace and her friend Calvin O'Keefe to rescue her father, a gifted scientist, from the evil forces…
The Giver
The book starts in a seemingly Utopian world where there is no war, pain, suffering, or difference of choice. However, it becomes clear that society has given up all of its memories of the time before this "Sameness", and have also lost colour,…
The Haj
This book follows the story of one Arab family in Palestine as they experience the historic events of the 1920s-1950s. It goes on to show how the family is affected by the proximity of a nearby kibbutz (a collective Jewish community based on…
Bridge to Terabithia
This book follows the friendship of Jess and Leslie, eleven year-old boy and girl living in the rural south. To escape the hardships of family and school life and the realities of poverty, Jess and Leslie develop a fantasy world in the woods near…
And Tango Makes Three
This story is based on the two male penguins in New York's Central Park Zoo, Roy and Silo, who made a nest together but discovered neither of them could lay an egg. They watched the other penguins and tried to hatch a rock that looked like an egg.…
Forever...
This book explores the complexities of relationships and teenage sexuality through Katherine's and Michael's relationship. The two high school students grow in their relationship with one another, then, after having sex together for the first time…
Of Mice and Men
The storyline follows George Milton and Lennie Small, two displaced migrant ranch workers, who move from place to place in search of new job opportunities during the Great Depression in the US. George is an intelligent but uneducated man, and Lennie…
Julian is a Mermaid
"Told with minimal text, the joyous illustrations do the bulk of the work as we meet beautiful Julian, a young boy who loves mermaids. He loves them so much he feels he is one. When he reveals his true self to his Nana there is a perfect…
I am Jazz
"This enlightening autobiographical picture book tells the story of a transgender child who knew from the time she was two that despite her physical body she wasn't really a boy. Young Jazz was passionate about her love of mermaids, dancing,…
Thirteen Reasons why
"Everything affects everything," declares Hannah Baker, who killed herself two weeks ago. After her death, Clay Jensen--who had a crush on Hannah--finds seven cassette tapes in a brown paper package on his doorstep. Listening to the tapes, Hannah…
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7 Wonders
![7 Wonders Cover 7 Wonders Cover](https://archive.fims.uwo.ca/specialcollections/files/square_thumbnails/807ecaed714dbf4f426120dd81dca1c6.jpg)
Players: 2-7
Playing time: 30 minutes
Ages: 10+
Description: Lead one of the seven great cities of the Ancient world. Exploit the natural…