When Stephanie Rempel’s students get back to school on Monday morning, they’ll be met with a surprise: a stack of brand-new books, hand-picked for her Grade 3 classroom.
And how all those books got there is a story all its own, complete with an unexpected twist and a mysterious benefactor.
It all started on Saturday, when Rempel made her annual trip to a local bookstore to refresh the titles in her class at Winnipeg’s Harold Hatcher Elementary School.
When it came time to pay, she realized the $600 budget she had from her school wasn’t going to cover the books she
