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"No Boy Like Amanda Author" Rewards Friendship Primary:
FRIENDSHIP Primary School defied the odds and naysayers -- even within its own camp -- to reach round eight in the 2014 Junior Schools' Challenge Quiz. The Spanish Town-based school, usually known for its athletic prowess, also earned the title Best Rural Area School in the competition."It felt great because it's the first Friendship has ever gone this far before ...[link to article]
"No Boy Like Amanda" goes to Friendship Primary:
In 2010 Friendship Primary School, first time entrants to the Junior Schools’ Challenge Quiz lost their match and were knocked out of the competition in the first round.Four years later, the Spanish Town-based school opened the season by beating four-time champion Windward Road Primary, eventually advancing to the Quarter finals.
This achievement caught ...[link to article]
Bibliotherapy: How Reading Can Help Children Manage Their Emotions:
Youth Minister Lisa Hanna last year said that a large number of children with behavioural problems were actually afflicted by various mental conditions. Compounding matters, she noted, was that child mental health was not being taken seriously in Jamaica.As the Government continues to implement programmes to identify, diagnose, and treat children with mental-health issues in ...[link to article]
Jamaica Gleaner Features "No Boy Like Amanda":
Patients at the Bustamante Hospital for Children had a different type of therapy recently when children's author, Hope Barnett, joined Her Excellency the Most Honourable Lady Allen and retired judge, Shirley Lewis, on their visit to the hospital, to spread holiday cheer and take the children on an exciting reading adventure.Settled in the brightly coloured library of the hospital's ...[link to article]
Jamaican Author Blogs about "No Boy Like Amanda":
In today’s Gleaner there was an article on "National Reading Week: Improving student literacy". During the year, there are a number of weeks/days when it seems, sponsored by various organizations, adults read in schools, and I am pleased that these organizations show their interest in this way.National Reading Week, implemented by the Jamaica Reading Association, runs from April 28 to May 4, and this year is ...[link to blog]
Promotions
No Boy Like Amanda featured on RJR Jamaican Morning with Paula Ann Porter Jones and Alan Magnus
-- Wednesday May 14, 2014.
Host Vernon Derby of Nationwide's 'At Your Service' discusses
No Boy Like Amanda with Author, Hope Barnett -- Thursday May 15, 2014
iDeLick Media interviews Hope Barnett
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Book Signing & Presentation
December 12, 2012. Employees of Trafalgar Travel Ltd. wait to have their copies of No Boy
Like Amanda autographed by author Hope Barnett at the company's head office, 14 Garelli Ave,
Kingston 10.
Monique Henry, grade 7 student at St. Andrew School for Girls, and daughter of Trafalgar
Travel employee Lisa Henry, gets her copy of No Boy Like Amanda autographed by Hope Barnett
at Trafalgar Travel's head office.
Pastor Sylvia Edwards of the Full Truth Church of God Deliverance Centre, 4 Shortwood Road,
Kingston 8 accepts a copy of the official book for National Reading Week, No Boy Like Amanda,
from author Hope Barnett. Presentation was made at the church service held on April 28, 2013
to mark the start of the week of activities.