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It’s the end of the school year, and 15-year-old Natalie has a whole summer ahead of her with only dance classes lined up to keep her occupied. What should be just another innocent season in ... Read More »

May 30, 2011 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Ghosts of the Titanic

By Julie Lawson

It is the sinking – not the sailing – of the Titanic that intrigues most kids, and Julie Lawson knows it. An established historical fiction writer for young people, Lawson packs in plenty of Titanic ... Read More »

May 30, 2011 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Ghost Messages

By Jacqueline Guest

In Ghost Messages, the exciting new novel by Alberta’s Jacqueline Guest, a 13-year-old Irish girl named Ailish O’Connor sneaks onto a ship in pursuit of a man who has stolen her father’s solid-gold horse statuette, ... Read More »

May 30, 2011 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Torn from Troy: Odyssey of a Slave

By Patrick Bowman

This inversion of Homer’s Odyssey, told from the perspective of a Trojan boy, offers raw adventure from beginning to end. Orphaned Alexi, trying to hide from the Greeks invading his beloved Troy, is captured. The ... Read More »

May 30, 2011 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

She Said/She Saw

By Norah McClintock

Tegan Tyrell is in the back seat of a car when two of her best friends are shot and killed right in front of her. Despite mounting pressure from police, her own family, and the ... Read More »

May 30, 2011 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Blood Red Road

By Moira Young

First-time novelist Moira Young has hit paydirt with Blood Red Road. The B.C. author’s dystopian/post-apocalyptic YA novel is the first in a trilogy that has already been optioned for film by director Ridley Scott. It’s ... Read More »

May 30, 2011 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Loon Island

By Donna Firby Gamache

Alex O’Grady, an angry 14-year-old loner, can’t forget the crime committed by his dead father, though he refuses to talk to anyone about it. It haunts him even at family camp on Loon Island, where ... Read More »

May 30, 2011 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Hunt of the Unicorn

By C.C. Humphreys

In telling the story of a girl summoned to save a world of magical beasts from a tyrant, Vancouver’s C.C. Humphreys (author of the Runestone Saga) avoids the most obvious cliché of such dual-world fantasies: ... Read More »

May 30, 2011 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Education of Hailey Kendrick

By Eileen Cook

Hailey Kendrick is about as engaging a teen protagonist as a reader could wish for. Sure, she’s smart and pretty, but she’s also earnest, anxious, and maybe more than a little accident-prone. Following her mother’s ... Read More »

May 30, 2011 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Fifth Rule

By Don Aker

In Don Aker’s 2004 novel, The First Stone, Halifax teenager Reef Kennedy serves time as a young offender after throwing a rock from an overpass and wounding a young girl named Leeza. As part of ... Read More »

May 30, 2011 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

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Ghosts of the Titanic

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Blood Red Road

Loon Island

The Hunt of the Unicorn

The Education of Hailey Kendrick

The Fifth Rule

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