Surrey Teens Read promises great reads for students in our district.

Not Here to Be Liked by Michelle Quach is one the ten amazing titles presented by Surrey Teens Read. Come down to your school library to have a look.
Surrey Teens Read promises great reads for students in our district.
Not Here to Be Liked by Michelle Quach is one the ten amazing titles presented by Surrey Teens Read. Come down to your school library to have a look.
Do you believe that you should be able to choose what you read? Or should other people be able to decide for you what you can read? Freedom to Read Week celebrates our fundamental freedoms as citizens of democracies and our fundamental rights as human beings. Freedom to Read Week also asks to to beware of the forces at work which erode and seek to destroy your rights and freedoms.
Do you take your Freedom to Read for granted? These are books that are available in our libraries which have been challenged, and in far too many cases, removed from shelves, and banned. Many of the books pictured here are on the list of the top 20 most banned books in the U.S. for the 2021-2022 school year.
This isn’t just happening in authoritarian states such as North Korea, Iran, China or Russia. This is happening in the so-called free world. This is happening in the United States. So far it hasn’t been as bad in Canada, but challenges are growing here and there are too many who want American censorship to come to Canada.
Find out more:
Banned in the USA: The Growing Movement to Censor Books in Schools
Check out this Surrey Teens Read nominee from author Ruta Septys.
I Must Betray You is historical fiction filled with suspense, intrigue and themes that resonate in current evetns. Come down to your school library to check it out, and peruse all ten of this year’s Surrey Teen Read selections.
Surrey Teens Read has something for everyone. Here is Kyrie McCauley’s We Can Be Heroes.
Come down to your school library to have a look at all ten of this year’s Surrey Teen Read selections.
How many Surrey Teens Read books have you read yet? You need to have a look at Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao.
Come down to your School Library to check out Iron Widow, one of this yearās ten nominated titles fromĀ Surrey Teens Read.
Monday, October 24 is Canadian School Library Day, BC School Library Day, and the day for the BCTLA/BCTF Annual “Drop Everything and Read” Challenge. All students and staff at LTSS are challenged to use the Tutorial Block on Monday to read for pleasure.
Put away the homework and the text books. Shut down your phone and the computer. Ignore the marking and the lesson planning. Pick up a book and read for recreation. Read for pleasure. Read to learn something you are interested in (outside of school!). Read to escape. Read for fun.
Be sure to have some good reading material ready for Monday. Come down to the School Library where that is our number one job, helping you to get good reading material into your hands.
The DEAR Challenge is extended to all the citizens of our province! So pass on the word to your family and friends. Challenge them to take some time on October 24 to “Drop Everything and Read!”
Come down to your School Library to check outĀ Lexi Ryan’s These Hollow Vows, one of this yearās ten nominated titles fromĀ Surrey Teens Read
Walking in Two Worlds by Wab Kinew
Come down to your School Library to check outĀ Wab Kinew’s Walking in Two Worlds, one of this yearās ten nominated titles fromĀ Surrey Teens Read.
Surrey Teens Read: The Mary Shelley Club by Goldy Moldavsky
Come down to your School Library to check out The Mary Shelley Club, one of this year’s ten nominated titles from Surrey Teens Read.
Surrey Teens Read: Better Than the Movies by Lynn Painter
Come down to your School Library to check out Lynn Painter’s Better Than the Movies, one of this year’s ten nominated titles from Surrey Teens Read.
All students, grades 8 to 12, boys and girls, are invited to join the LTSS Book Club at the very first meeting, September 29th at lunch in the Library.
Come down to your School Library to check out these selections, and many more new titles.