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July 4, 2013

Here’s some of the books that we’re reading this week!

Starting: My Dad's a Birdman, in which award-winning author David Almond wields magic realism and our suspension of disbelief to show us how →

September 29, 2012

Happy 15th Birthday, Chloe!

We observe each and every student's birthday in class. The festivities are necessarily rather brief, given the amount of work that our students and →

May 26, 2012

Minority Report: Let’s read the story and watch the film adaptation!

At Accella, we're always looking for new ways to help our students to improve their English skills and we've recently begun experimenting with adding →

March 30, 2012

Everyone is in danger. Yeah. Even you. (reading Animorphs: The Invasion)

We've been reading K. A. Applegate's first Animorphs book, Animorphs: The Invasion (Wikipedia entry) with some of our students recently. The book has →

September 20, 2011

Frozen corn is real, alright? (Reading Dave Eggers’s The Wild Things)

In one of our classes, we're about a third of the way through Dave Eggers's novelization of Spike Jonze's film adaptation of Maurice Sendak's classic →

August 30, 2011

Pop-Tarts party (Reading Ingrid Law’s Savvy)

We've just finished reading Ingrid Law's funny, bittersweet YA novel Savvy with a group of our summer term students. The story features a family in →

August 2, 2011

How many butterflies can you see?

RachelL is gazing through a telescope while several of her classmates look on, waiting for their turn. In one of our Summer Fun classes, we're currently →

May 22, 2009

Wybie, short for Wyborn

We've been encouraging many of our students to see the film adaptation of Neil Gaiman's children's fantasy novel, Coraline. For those students who →

April 15, 2009

Coraline arrives in Hong Kong on April 30th – mark your calendars!

Above: Coraline poster photographed hanging in the lobby of the cinema in the IFC on April 14. The film adaptation of Neil Gaiman's award-winning →

March 21, 2009

Secret Plans and Clever Tricks

Above: LocaniW and KeithL reading their copies of Roald Dahl's classic The Enormous Crocodile. The plot summary in the book's Wikipedia entry contains →

January 8, 2009

Coraline film adaptation to open in US theaters soon!

In less than a month, the film adaptation of Neil Gaiman's Coraline, starring Dakota Fanning as the voice of Coraline Jones, will open in American →

November 17, 2008

Two David Almond books make their debuts

Above: CeciliaC perusing her copy of My Dad's a Birdman. Below: SophieL checking out The Savage. Both books are excellent new works by critically →