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Iron Widow

The students of the school district have spoken. The 2023 Surrey Teens Read Book of the Year is: Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao.

Thanks to all the students who read this year’s slate of Surrey Teens Read nominees and voted for their favourites. Thanks to all the Teacher-Librarians on the STR Committee whose efforts make Surrey Teens Read a success every year by offering up a wonderful selection of titles.

Find out more about Surrey Teens Read

Indigenous Peoples Collection

Come down to your School Library to check out our newly established Indigenous Peoples Collection. The collection features books written by indigenous writers. Here are just a few of the more recent titles that share an authentic indigenous voice.

Anne Frank

Anne Frank was born on this day in 1929 in Frankfurt, Germany. Her family moved to the Amsterdam in 1933, among the over 300,000 Jews who fled Germany between the rise of Hitler and the onset of WW2. Nevertheless, the Netherlands fell to the Nazis in 1940. Eventually Anne and her family went into hiding in 1942. While hiding in the “Secret Annex,” Anne would write what would become perhaps the most famous diary in history, published after the war as The Diary of a Young Girl. The Franks were betrayed, discovered, and arrested, in 1944. Anne and her sister perished in Bergen-Belsen, a Nazi death camp, in 1945. Most of her family ended up numbered among the more than 100,000 Dutch Jews killed in the Nazi Holocaust, although her father survived. It was he who discovered Anne’s diary and was able to have it published so that many generations may be enriched by it.

Find out more:

Anne Frank The Write r

Anne Frank House

Anne Frank Fonds (Foundation)

Maurice Sendak

Maurice Sendak was born on this day in 1928 in Brooklyn. Sendak is the author of one of the most beloved children’s picture books of all time, Where the Wild Things Are. Maurice Sendak died in 2012.

Indigenous Peoples Collection

Come into the School Library to check out our newly established Indigenous Peoples Collection. This section of the School Library is devoted to titles from authentic indigenous writers.

All titles in the Indigenous Peoples Collection are designated with spine labels bearing the “IPC” prefix. Sublocations in the IPC include:

Coast Salish
Northwest Coast
First Nations
Inuit
Metis
Urban
Global
Own Voice
Truth and Reconciliation

and more…

June is National Indigenous History Month in Canada.

Fredrik Backman

Swedish writer Fredrik Backman was born on this day in 1981. Backman is the author of many novels, including A Man Called Ove, published in 2012.

Michael Chabon

American writer Michael Chabon was born on this day in 1963. Chabon is the author of such books as The Yiddish Policeman’s Union, The Wonder Boys, and Summerland.