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Joyce Grant

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Toronto, Canada

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https://joycegrantauthor.com/

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Genre

Middle Grade, Picture Books, Nonfiction

Influences

PBs, MG and the classics--Dickens, Eliot, Hardy, Maugham. Lots of kid- ...more

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November 2013

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Joyce Grant is a freelance journalist and professor at Humber College.
Her books:
* CAN YOU BELIEVE IT? How to Spot Fake News and Find the Facts (illus Kathleen Marcotte)
* SLIDING HOME and TAGGED OUT, fast-paced MG baseball novels
* GABBY picture book (illus Jan Dolby)
* GABBY: WONDER GIRL
* GABBY: DRAMA QUEEN
Joyce also publishes the internationally award-winning kid-friendly news website, TeachingKidsNews.com.

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Average rating: 4.24 · 334 ratings · 107 reviews · 8 distinct works • Similar authors

	Can You Believe It?: How to Spot Fake News and Find the Facts by Joyce Grant (Goodreads Author), Kathleen Marcotte (Illustrator) 4.42 avg rating — 153 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gabby by Joyce Grant (Goodreads Author), Jan Dolby (Goodreads Author) 3.95 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Burst Your Bubble!: Outsmart the Algorithms and See What You’re Missing by Joyce Grant (Goodreads Author), Jan Dolby (Goodreads Author) (illustrator) 4.40 avg rating — 45 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tagged Out 3.90 avg rating — 29 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gabby Drama Queen by Joyce Grant (Goodreads Author), Jan Dolby (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) 4.13 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gabby: Wonder Girl by Joyce Grant (Goodreads Author), Jan Dolby (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) 3.77 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sliding Home 4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	This Is a Library Book: Check Out the Places and People Sharing Knowledge and Building Communities by Joyce Grant (Goodreads Author), Chanelle Nibbelink (Illustrator) 4.63 avg rating — 8 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The influential School Library Journal (SLJ) has given This Is a Library Book a starred review, recommending that every library put it on its bookshelves. The review appears in the September edition of SLJ magazine.

“A true love letter to all things library, this should be in every collection.”

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Joyce Grant wants to read The Book of Maggie by Stephanie Wyeld	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Joyce Grant rated a book it was amazing World History Biographies: Mozart: The Boy Who Changed the World With His Music (National Geographic World History Biographies) by Marcus Weeks	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Joyce Grant rated a book it was amazing Do Not Turn the Page! by Jane Blondie	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
A fun, interactive book young readers will love. As the reader turns each page, it takes the main character into the house, into the bath and into his bed—and to sleep. As the character begs the reader not to turn the page, it only encourages the you ...more
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Joyce Grant rated a book it was amazing Dogs vs. Humans: A Showdown of the Senses by Stephanie Gibeault (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
It's a competition to see who will win--dogs or humans! Who sees better? Whose sense of smell is better? Who has better hearing? And who will be the winner? Round after round, the author deftly presents fun facts about dogs (and humans) in a way youn ...more
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Joyce’s Quotes

“Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story
of that man skilled in all ways of contending,
the wanderer, harried for years on end”
― Homer, The Odyssey

tags: homer, invocation, odyssay

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