The 2010 Willow Awards
Diamond Willow Nominee
Jolted
Most of Newton's ancestors have been killed by lightning strikes, including his mother. In desperation, Newton enrolls in a school in Moose Jaw, and has to deal with wearing a kilt, hiding his pet pig Josephine, battling a competitive student, and preparing for an expedition.
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About the Author
Arthur Slade is the author of Dust, a national bestseller and the winner of the 2001 Governor General's Award for Children's Literature, the Mr. Christie's Book Award and a Saskatchewan Book Award. He is most recently the author of The Hunchback Assignments, Jolted (shortlisted for the Silver Birch Award), Tribes (CLA Young Adult Honour Book) and Megiddo's Shadow (winner of Saskatchewan Book Award and a Red Maple Honour Book). Slade is also the author of Monsterology, Villainology and the Canadian Chills series. He lives in Saskatoon, SK.
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Suggested Activities
- Check out Arthur Slade’s website. You might want to listen to the podcast read by the author himself.
- Do you have somewhere that you need survival rules for? You might want to describe your fear and write a list of survival rules you use to conquer that fear.
- This website has lots of information about lightening. Can you discover who the creator of the website is and why (s)he created it?
- Here is an activity about lightening that your teacher or your parents could do with you.
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