BPL Teens

08/08/2017

A big thanks to everyone who participated in the Tommy Douglas Reading Buddies session this summer! We had a lot of fun :)

08/04/2017

05/31/2017

Feeling ill from exam prep? Learn how stress maybe affecting you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-t1Z5-oPtU

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-stress-affects-your-body-sharon-horesh-bergquist Our hard-wired stress response is designed to gives us the q...

05/01/2017

Have you read "Always and Forever Laura Jean" by Jenny Han? She'll be at Chapters at Metrotown for a book signing Monday, May 15!

https://allevents.in/burnaby/in-conversation-jenny-han/613788305483988 #

Join YA author Jenny Han, as she signs copies of her surprise follow-up to the New York Times bestselling To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before and P.S. I Still Love You, Always and Forever, Lara Jean.

04/28/2017

Are you stressed?

https://youtu.be/WuyPuH9ojCE

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-stress-affects-your-brain-madhumita-murgia Stress isn’t always a bad thing; it can be handy for a burst of ex...

04/17/2017

Check this out before reading Frankenstein!

https://youtu.be/PDgu25Dsv34?list=PLJicmE8fK0EiEzttYMD1zYkT-SmNf323z

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/everything-you-need-to-know-to-read-mary-shelley-s-frankenstein-iseult-gillespie In 1815, Lord Byron proposed a c...

04/05/2017

Do you like dystopian novels?

https://youtu.be/6a6kbU88wu0

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-to-recognize-a-dystopia-alex-gendler The genre of dystopia – the ‘not good place’– has captured the imaginati...

04/01/2017

The Shakespeare Selfie Writing Challenge from CBC. Open to grades 7 - 12. Open for submissions from April 10 to 28, 2017!

http://www.cbc.ca/books/2017/01/shakespeare-selfie-2017.html

Illustration: Graham Roumieu Shakespeare took selfies all the time - but instead of a camera, he used a quill.

03/31/2017

Potato - a surprising history!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xROmDsULcLE

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/history-through-the-eyes-of-the-potato-leo-bear-mcguinness Baked or fried, boiled or roasted, as chips or fries; ...

03/30/2017

How do you choose which book to start reading next?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q01M3fwawnY

Mission impossible: deciding which Lauren Oliver book to read next between Before I Fall, Replica, and Delirium. Subscribe to Epic Reads! - http://goo.gl/2vD...

03/28/2017

The book is great! The audiobook is amazing! I love the voice actors.

https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1182352002_the_sun_is_also_a_star

The Sun Is Also A Star (Spoken-word CD) : Yoon, Nicola : Natasha, whose family is hours away from being deported, and Daniel, a first generation Korean American who strives to live up to his parents' expectations, unexpectedly fall in love and must determine which path they will choose in order to b...

03/27/2017

Too much information?

https://youtu.be/Ze4Qmpq48AQ

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/is-it-bad-to-hold-your-p*e-heba-shaheed Humans should urinate at least four to six times a day, but occasionally,...