NEW Curriculum Resource Titles, April 22

Check out NEW Curriculum Resource titles in TWU’s Curriculum Resource Centre (CRC).

This specialized education resource library serves Trinity’s School of Education and local educators, and it provides a variety of resources for curriculum planning, research and teaching (including curriculum guides), teacher’s resources, and K-12 student resources.

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Calvin: a novel by Martine Leavitt
(Interest Level: Grades 7-12)
Born on the day the last Calvin and Hobbes comic strip was published, seventeen-year-old Calvin, a schizophrenic, sees and has conversations with the tiger, Hobbes, and believes that if he can persuade the strip’s creator, Bill Watterson, to do one more strip, he will make Calvin well.

The Nest by Kenneth Oppel and illustrated by Jon Klassen
(Interest Level: Grades 6-9)
This book is an unforgettable journey into one boy’s deepest insecurities and darkest fears.  Steve is an anxious boy and becomes convinced that angels will save his sick baby brother. But these are creatures of a very different kind, and their plan for the baby has a twist. Layer by layer, he unravels the truth about his new friends as the time remaining to save his brother ticks down.

The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani
(Interest Level: Grades 5-8)
Winner of the 2018 Malka Penn Award for Rights in Children’s Literature and the 2019 Newbery Honour Book, This is a heartful story of one girl’s search for home, for her own identity and for a hopeful future.  Shy twelve-year-old Nisha, forced to flee her home with her Hindu family during the 1947 partition of India. Nisha tries to find her voice and make sense of the world falling apart around her by writing to her deceased Muslim mother in the pages of her diary.

The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate and illustrations by Patricia Castelao
(Interest Level: Grades 4-6)
Winner of the 2013 Newbery Medal, this stirring and unforgettable novel celebrates the transformative power of unexpected friendship. Inspired by the true story of a captive gorilla known as Ivan, this illustrated novel is told from the point of view of Ivan himself.

The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B by Teresa Toten
(Interest Level: 7-10)
Governor General Award winner, this novel is about a support group for kids coping obsessive-compulsive disorder.  The story centres on when Adam meet Robyn at the support group, and he is determined to protect and defend her, whatever the cost. But when you’re fourteen and the everyday problems of dealing with divorced parents and step-siblings are supplemented by the challenges of OCD, it’s hard to imagine yourself falling in love. How can you have a “normal” relationship when your life is so fraught with problems?