EDHS & White Pine Book Club

The Wild Pick Your Dream Team When Dawn is taken to Out of the Wild, she isn’t able to choose the pack that she is  part of. Imagine you had the chance to bring your own seven or eight person team to  the program. Describe your team.  Who would you bring?  Why would you choose them? What colour would you assign each of them? To Think About... 1. The author talks directly to the reader throughout the novel. What are your thoughts about this as a narrative style? 2. Of the eight pack members in the story, who would you choose to befriend? What influenced  your decision? 3.  What do you think makes a society cohesive? Do you think the bear pack is actually  cohesive?

What Unbreakable Looks Like Pitch Your Dream Cast To Think About... 1. Trust is a large component of the story of Lex.  How does she eventually learn to trust people?  How do you know you can trust other people? 2.  Lex’s story is told in the present and flashbacks. The author reveals parts of her backstory  throughout the novel.  Do you think this was an effective way to tell the story? Why or why not? 3. In your opinion, who is the worst ‘villain’ in the story?  Why? 4. Is What Unbreakable Looks Like  a good title?  Why or why not?  

Nothing But Life To Think About... 1. Hate is an incredibly powerful emotion. Respond to Dills’s statement that he can’t hate Jesse, even after what he’s done. Is this realistic? Reasonable? Why? 2. Do you feel that Dills has received the support he needs to heal from the incredible tragedy that now defines his everyday  existence? Why or why not? 3. Imagine for a moment you were in Dills’s position. Would you go back to Windsor? Why or why not? 4. How well has the family responded to the tragedy, both toward Dills and Jesse as victim and perpetrator, but also in general? 5. The author has chosen to begin the book with a snippet of a poem, “26” by Rachel Eliza Griffiths. You can read the full poem at  https://poets.org/poem/26 .  What did you think of this decision to begin with this poem? Do you feel it added to the story?

 The Montague Twins To Think About... 1. Do you believe in magic and the  supernatural? Have you had any experiences that inform your view? 2. Do you find the relationship between the twins, Peter and Alastair realistic? Do you think most families have such easy relationships? 3. Do you think the series title should be The Montague Twins? Charlie and Rowan are equally helpful in solving the mystery – would there be a better series title? What would you suggest? 4. How did you find the art? Do you read many graphic novels? Would you have preferred it to be a non-illustrated novel instead of a graphic novel?  Author Interview (Print) Word Search  (PDF)

Gutter Child To Think About... 1. The world in this novel is designed in a way that creates success for some (Mainlanders) and barriers for others (Gutter people). While “Redemption Freedom” has all of the positive connotations in its words, it is a control measure put in place to further benefit those who have the power and privilege in society. Those who are oppressed face a lifetime of impossible circumstances in the Gutter, where the odds of success are greatly diminished. What are some ways in which the people in these situations endure and/or rise up against this oppression ? 2. “Books are sometimes windows, offering views of worlds that may be real or imagined, familiar or strange. These windows are also sliding glass doors, and readers have only to walk through in imagination to become part of whatever world has been created and recreated by the author. When  lighting conditions are just right, however, a window can also be a mirror. Literature transforms human experience a...

 The Forest of Stolen Girls Online Jigsaw Puzzle Online Word Puzzle -To move a tile, click and drag onto another tile.

 Fight Like a Girl To Think About... 1. The soucouyant is refered to numerous times in this story. What is it? How is it significant to this story? 2. Trisha is regularly exposed to violence, both in her home life with her parents, and within the sport she has taken up. Do you feel this has an impact on Trisha as a character and the decisions she makes within the novel?  Social Media Pick a character from the novel and using any tools at your disposal (hard-copy or electronic) develop an Instagram account for the character. Find five or six photos that you feel would be indicative of something that character would post on their account. Share your results and reasoning for the photos with your group.   Word Search

 Don't Breathe a Word Somthing to think about... 1. Do you think being a teenager in the 1960s was very different from being a teenager now? If yes, in what ways? 2. Would you participate in an experiment like the one in the book? Have you heard of anything similar? If you were involved in an experiment that went wrong, would you report it right away, or would you go along with a group decision? 3. Would you join a secret society? Do you think they are a good idea? Double Puzzle Six Word Memoirs

 Bruised Interviews With The Author: Print Bruised: A Q+A with Tanya Boteju - Capilano Courier Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/dk/podcast/ep-4-interview-tanya-boteju/id1559234625?i=1000517362156 Word Search To Think About... 1. Daya is dealing with a lot of grief over the death of her parents.  How is she coping? What is she doing?  Have you ever had to deal with grief?  What did you do? 2. Daya meets many interesting people after she enters the world of roller derby.  Joe, Alma, Bee and Yolanda are just a few of those characters.  Describe the relationship they have with Daya.  Why are they important to Daya’s character and her journey?

 Blood Like Magic Some Things to Think About... 1. The novel starts and centres itself around a coming of age ritual. How does this ritual compare to ones that you may celebrate or members of your community celebrate? What is the purpose of these types of rituals? 2. There is a rating system that is used in Voya’s time period where random strangers can comment and give a numerical score to others that effect how others perceive them. What sort of mechanisms exist like this in our current time? Can you imagine them evolving into something like Voya’s? 3. Voya notes “Magic is a patch we’re using to hide how broken we are.” What broken pieces do you think Voya’s family is hiding? Why might they choose to hide them instead of confront or repair them?

Thanks for a great December meeting. Sorry we can't fellowship over the usual meal of vegetarian chili, mulled sweet cider and seasonal desserts. Perhaps in Second Semester!! As discussed, I will create discussion threads for each of the White Pine books and for those who requested it, I have added you as editors on this blog. Please check your ugcloud email for the invitation. Our next meeting will be January 5. Here is the schedule for reading we decided on: January 1st 2 books February 3rd book March 4th book April 5th book And remember that for those who finish at least 5 of the White Pine books by the end of April, there are some lovely journals or a book of your choice from Chapters.ca  (up to $15.00 pre-tax value) AND you get to vote for your favourite author!! Here is the list of titles available in our EDHS SORA "shelf" and EDHS hard-copies: these 5 were selected based on your feedback from the first meeting. The remainder of our hard-...

Hi all, Thanks for a great first meeting. Based on your feedback, I have purchased the top 5 White Pine titles and added these to our SORA shelf. They are ready to be borrowed. Here are the top 5: The Forest of Stolen Girls Gutter Child The Montague Twins Nothing But Life The Wild  (audio book) Next Meeting:  Wednesday, December 8 11:50 IN THE LIBRARY SEMINAR ROOM.

Hi all, Welcome to the EDHS and White Pine Book Club, 2021-2022. We will have our first meeting on Wednesday, November 10, and have a look at the White Pine books for this year. Click here to check them out . We must wear masks and be socially distanced, so there is a limit on the number of people. Eat your lunch in your morning class and then join us at 11:50 in Room 183, that's the computer lab attached to the Library.