Lucy Unstrung

The transition from girl to young woman is a tricky one, full of embarrassment and uncertainty. Navigating the unknown territory of puberty with as few battle scars as possible is a rite of passage for ... Read More »

November 17, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

One Hockey Night

By David Ward; Brian Deines, illus.

With One Hockey Night, David Ward and Brian Deines offer up a sequel to The Hockey Tree, which won a Saskatchewan Young Readers’ Choice award in 2007. In the new book, hockey-loving siblings Owen and ... Read More »

November 17, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

Together Forever

By Per-Henrik Gürth

In 2009’s When Wishes Come True, Little Bear yearned to be anything other than a polar bear cub living on barren, white stretches of Arctic ice with Mother Bear. He soon learned, however, that he ... Read More »

November 17, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

Hockey Opposites

By Per-Henrik Gürth

Per-Henrik Gürth’s Hockey Opposites is a delightfully cute and playful treatment of hockey for early readers. The book tells the story of a match between two teams made up of typical Gürthian critters such as ... Read More »

November 17, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

Viola Desmond Won’t Be Budged!

By Jody Nyasha Warner; Richard Rudnicki, illus.

One day in 1946, hair salon owner Viola Desmond’s car broke down in the town of New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. To pass the time while it was being fixed, she went to the movies, only ... Read More »

November 17, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

Stanley’s Little Sister

By Linda Bailey; Bill Slavin, illus

Stanley’s back, but in this, the latest in the popular series with the delightfully comic dog’s-eye view of the world, the boisterous canine has to deal with trouble he didn’t cause. Stanley’s trouble takes the ... Read More »

November 17, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

★ Canadian Railroad Trilogy

By Gordon Lightfoot; Ian Wallace, illus.

Gordon Lightfoot wrote one of his best-loved songs, “Canadian Railroad Trilogy,” in Canada’s centennial year, 1967. Lightfoot’s lyrics celebrate the vision and incredible effort that went into building the Canadian Pacific Railroad. They also celebrate ... Read More »

November 17, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

★ For the Win

By Cory Doctorow

With his new YA novel, Cory Doctorow doesn’t press against the limits of the imagination so much as the limits of the genre. While For the Win is presented as fiction for younger readers, it’s ... Read More »

November 17, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Shards of Excalibur: Song of the Sword

By Edward Willett

Authors who incorporate, interpret, or subvert Arthurian legends in works of contemporary fantasy take a huge risk: the failure rate of such books is staggeringly high. Every so often, though, a writer is skilled enough ... Read More »

November 17, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

★ No Safe Place

By Deborah Ellis

In her fiction and non-fiction, Deborah Ellis has relentlessly brought to light the ways in which war and social injustice affect young people around the world. She continues to do so in her powerful new ... Read More »

November 17, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

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Lucy Unstrung

One Hockey Night

Together Forever

Hockey Opposites

Viola Desmond Won’t Be Budged!

Stanley’s Little Sister

★ Canadian Railroad Trilogy

★ For the Win

The Shards of Excalibur: Song of the Sword

★ No Safe Place

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