Ordinary Extraordinary Jane Austen: the Story of Six Novels, Three Notebooks, a Writing Box, and One Clever Girl
Grade K-4 Readers
Ordinary Extraordinary Jane Austen: the Story of Six Novels, Three Notebooks, a Writing Box, and One Clever Girl by Deborah Hopkinson, illustrations by Qin Leng.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that well over 200 years after her death, Jane Austen is more popular now than she has ever been. Her books, the most well known Pride and Prejudice, may be a little beyond K-8 grade students, but it is never too early to introduce her to children. This is the perfect book to do just that. It’s colorful and sweet and accurate in its information about Jane Austen, her family and her life.
Jane loved to read and her family encouraged her, this helped her to write her own stories as she grew up, stories that still fly off bookstore shelves and become hit movies.
The quietly beautiful illustrations add greatly to this picture book biography.
This book is not yet available as an eBook, but you may find it at your local public library or bookstore. Ms. Touet highly recommends it!
Go With the Flow
Grades 5 and up
Go with the Flow by Karen Schneemann. Graphic novels are about much more than flying and tights. They can also tell very personal stories and tackle important topics. Go with the Flow centers on a group of four high school students who take on the indifference and even outright dismissal by their school administration regarding women’s health issues in general and menstruation specifically. Frustrated with the lack of needed feminine hygiene products in the student bathrooms, they band together to bring attention to the gender and economic inequality of “period poverty” and fight the body shaming inflicted by the ignorant and the malicious. People of all genders and gender identities will find Go with the Flow to be an enjoyable and enlightening read on a subject that is sadly all too often considered taboo.
Brazen: Rebel Ladies who Rocked the World
High School/Young Adult
Brazen: Rebel Ladies who Rocked the World by Penelope Bagieu. Throughout history and across the glove, one characteristic connects the daring women of Brazen: their indomitable spirit. Against overwhelming adversity, these remarkable women raised their voices and changed history.
Graphic novelist Penelope Bagieu profiles the lives of these feisty female role models, some world-famous, some little known. From Nellie Bly to Mae Jemison or Josephine Baker to Nazig al-Abid, the stories in this comic biography are sure to inspire the next generation of rebel ladies.
Sora
New England Aquarium Live Web Cams
Check out what the inhabitants are doing at The New England Aquarium.
Funbrain
Math, reading and online books are just some of the great features of this website. Activities are by grade level.
Google Arts & Culture
Fun activities to learn about art and culture for tweens and teens.
Click here to access this site.
Fannie Farmer, Fannie Farmer Cookbook
Lesa Cline-Ransome, Author
Lesa Cline-Ransome is an award winning childrens' and middle grade author who was born in Malden. She has written numerous books on figures in Black History, such as Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong, Ethel Payne and Katherine Johnson; famous women athletes and topics in science like the history of germs and whaling. Lesa Cline-Ransome loves libraries and uses them often when researching for the books she writes and especially loves our own Malden Public Library, just across the street from the Malden High School.
Many of her books are available from the Malden Public Library. A Malden Public LIbrary card also allows you to borrow ebook editions of many of her books through Hoopla Digital and other sources.
Katherine Johnson, NASA Research Mathematician
Get Inside!
This month's featured museum is The New England Aquarium located in Boston. This museum features hands-on marine displays and exhibits to learn about the various animals that make the sea their home and how they depend on the ocean to survive. Check out the giant ocean tank and watch the inhabitants mingle with each other. Watch the penguins as they swim, dive and waddle around their habitat at the bottom of the four story high Great Ocean Tank. Click here to learn more about The New England Aquarium.
Get Outside!
Click here to check out the hiking trails located in Middlesex Fells Reservation.
Click here for information about what Middlesex Fells Reservation has to offer.
Recipe of the Month
Like to dip your fruit into something sweet? Check out this recipe for Bee My Honey Fruit Dip here. It uses cream cheese and marshmallow creme with a hint of orange flavor. Yum!
Click here for more fun recipes
Craft of the Month
Spring brings warmer, windier weather and would be a good time to fly a kite. To celebrate the first day of Spring on March 20, check out this link to make your own kite.
Christina Terranova, Grades 5-8 ESL Teacher, Salemwood School
Tachaline Jeune, Grade 1 Teacher, Linden School
Jessica Matrone, CCC-SLP Speech Language Pathologist, Forestdale
Brian Wong, ELA Teacher, Malden High School
Mary Liberge, High School Librarian
Twitter: @librarygirl0727
Google Classroom:
Malden High School Library 2020-21
Code: prx3ixj
Stephen Nedell, K-8 Librarian
Stephen Nedell is the librarian for the Salemwood School and the Linden STEAM Academy and has been a librarian in the Malden Public Schools since 2017. Before that, he was the Reference, IT and Local History Librarian at the Malden Public Library for over ten years. snedell@maldenps.org
He is a huge fan of the Simpsons and can quote from almost any episode. Check out his read aloud stories on his Youtube channel by clicking here.
Google Classroom:
K-8 School Librarians 2020-2021 Nedell/Touet
Code: 75ar5qc
Maria Touet, K-8 Librarian
Twitter: @BFFLibrarian
Google Classsroom:
K-8 School Librarians 2020-2021 Nedell/Touet
Code: 75ar5qc