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Joyce Grant is a freelance journalist and professor at Humber College.
Her books:
* CAN YOU BELIEVE IT? How to Spot Fake News and Find the Facts (illus Kathleen Marcotte)
* SLIDING HOME and TAGGED OUT, fast-paced MG baseball novels
* GABBY picture book (illus Jan Dolby)
* GABBY: WONDER GIRL
* GABBY: DRAMA QUEEN
Joyce also publishes the internationally award-winning kid-friendly news website, TeachingKidsNews.com.

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Joyce Grant I've just finished the manuscript for Gabby 3! I'd rather not give away any spoilers at this time, but I will say that our goal--apart from giving kid…moreI've just finished the manuscript for Gabby 3! I'd rather not give away any spoilers at this time, but I will say that our goal--apart from giving kids a story and characters they'll enjoy--is to build on the reader's phonics skills. In the first book we concentrated on smaller, easy-to-sound-out words. In the second book we used consonant blends. In the third book we'll be looking at "question words."(less)
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“Local News Burlington”: wonderful review of This Is a Library Book (local-news.ca)

Thank you to reviewer Emily R. Zarevich, in Local News Burlington, for a well researched, thoughtful and thorough review of This Is a Library Book.

Clearly a library-lover, the reviewer appreciated the many messages woven throughout the book, such as the fact that libraries serve many diverse communities, offering specific things for specific needs. And the importance of libraries being open and we

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Do Not Turn the Page! by Jane Blondie
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A fun, interactive book young readers will love. As the reader turns each page, it takes the main character into the house, into the bath and into his bed—and to sleep. As the character begs the reader not to turn the page, it only encourages the you ...more
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It's a competition to see who will win--dogs or humans! Who sees better? Whose sense of smell is better? Who has better hearing? And who will be the winner? Round after round, the author deftly presents fun facts about dogs (and humans) in a way youn ...more
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Homer
“Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story
of that man skilled in all ways of contending,
the wanderer, harried for years on end”
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