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University of Toronto.
(Bernadette Inez O'Brian Schwartz is back with her friends...)
Bernadette Inez O'Brian Schwartz is back with her friends Annie, Keisha and Megan, aka The Lunch Bunch. In this third adventure Bernadette finally gets the puppy she has been dreaming of for so long. She and the Lunch Bunch girls learn how to give back when they help raise money at a charity garage sale. When school ends, the four friends decide to go to the same day camp. Bernadette discovers that she can induldge her love of science anywhere when the local frogs go missing and she and the other campers use the scientific method to find out why.
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( Bernadette is having a hard time starting a new school ...)
Bernadette is having a hard time starting a new school year. Her best friend has moved away and now she has to deal with bossy teachers and food fights all by herself-and that's just at lunch! It's only when she makes three new best friends, Annie, Keisha and Megan, that she finds a way to survive the school lunch room-by forming the Lunch Bunch. Together the girls will plan a pirate birthday party, paint a mural to make someone happy and discover that everyone has a special talent-even if it doesn't belong in the school talent show! Susan Glickman is a writer and a poet. She started writing about the adventures of Bernadette and her friends for her own children. She lives in Toronto, Ontario, with her husband, two children, one guinea pig and one dog.
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( Set in Jewish London in the 1930s, Susan Glickman's The...)
Set in Jewish London in the 1930s, Susan Glickman's The Violin Lover is written against the backdrop of Hitler's escalating campaign against the Jews. This beautifully written novel tells the story of Clara Weiss and Ned Abraham, "the violin lover," brought together by Clara's 11-year-old son, Jacob. A successful doctor and amateur violinist, Ned is pressured to practice a duet with Jacob by the boy's piano teacher. Though reluctant at first, Ned is charmed by the young prodigy and surprised by Jacob's dedication and passion for music. In him Ned sees his younger self, so young and full of promise. A friendship is soon built on a mutual love for music. A dinner invitation to spend Passover with the Weiss family seals Ned's fate and a clandestine love affair begins. Although they both agree that no one must ever know — especially not Clara's family — their affair inevitably comes to a crashing end, with disastrous, life-altering consequences. Unfolding like a melody, The Violin Lover is infused with music and told in three voices. It is a powerful novel about the love one feels for family, friends, culture, faith and music, and the passion that comes with it — regardless of the outcome.
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(After her triumph at the science fair—winning a special a...)
After her triumph at the science fair—winning a special award even though she wasn't technically old enough to enter—Bernadette is ready to continue on with grade three. Her friendship with Annie, Keisha and Megan—also known as "the Lunch Bunch"—continues to blossom. They even befriend an elderly neighbor, Mrs. March, and her dog, Lady. After helping Mrs. Marsh with her garden, Bernadette is rewarded with her heart's desire, a puppy from Lady's new litter. When Bernadette's best friend Jasmine comes to visit for the Christmas holidays, Bernadette is thrilled. They go to the science center and conduct an experiment where they turn snow into ice cream. Bernadette is so happy to be spending time with Jasmine that she ignores all of her new friends. Annie, Keisha and Megan are not impressed, and Bernadette has to work hard to realize her mistake, and to prove to the Lunch Bunch that she values their friendship.
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University of Toronto.
She is teacher of literature and creative writing, currently teaching at Ryerson University and the University of Toronto. She was formerly an English professor at the University of Toronto, where she wrote her doctoral dissertation on Shakespeare"s dramaturgy. She also works as an freelance editor, primarily of academic texts.
Her essays and reviews appear in magazines such as Maisonneuve, Brick, Essays on Canadian Writing, The Journal of Canadian Poetry and The University of Toronto Quarterly among others, and her poetry has been translated into French and Greek.
Her first novel, The Violin Lover, won the Canadian Jewish Book Award for Fiction and was listed as one of the best books of 2006 by The National Post and The Picturesque & the Sublime: A Poetics of the Canadian Landscape (1998) won both the Gabrielle Roy prize for the year"s best work of literary criticism and the Raymond Klibansky prize for the year"s best work in the humanities.
(After her triumph at the science fair—winning a special a...)
( Set in Jewish London in the 1930s, Susan Glickman's The...)
(Bernadette Inez O'Brian Schwartz is back with her friends...)
( Bernadette is having a hard time starting a new school ...)