Nellie’s Quest

If you crossed Anne of Green Gables with Little House on the Prairie and added a sharper political focus, the hybrid might resemble Nellie’s Quest. This is the second of Connie Brummel Crook’s thoroughly researched ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Winds Through Time

By Ann Walsh, ed.

Writing for children tends to be conservative in form. One effect of this tendency is that children’s literature can be a haven for writers who are drawn to traditional forms that are currently unfashionable in ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Witcher

By Joan Weir

Take an intriguing title, add a mystery, include a dash of danger, a bantering family, and a hate-love relationship with a horse, and you’ve got ingredients for a book that will please a wide-ranging audience. ... Read More »

February 25, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Carving My Name

By Mary-Kate McDonald

This collection of short stories for young adults by Mary-Kate McDonald finds all protagonists in a state of emotional pain. Jason discovers from a third party that his best friend is moving away. As her ... Read More »

February 25, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Telling

By Carol Matas

Carol Matas won renown in the late 1980s with Lisa and Jesper, two very well-done books about the Holocaust and the Second World War. Her latest young adult novel, Telling, continues the Winnipeg author’s more ... Read More »

February 25, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

★ The Party

By Barbara Reid

Barbara Reid’s amazing ways with Plasticine are familiar to readers from her imaginative illustrations for a number of books such as Have You Seen Birds? and The New Baby Calf, but in this new book ... Read More »

February 25, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

The Body in the Basement

By Norah McClintock

When the body of her mother, who disappeared five years earlier, is unearthed during the demolition of a restaurant formerly owned by her parents, 15-year-old Tasha Scanlan sets out to prove to the police – ... Read More »

February 25, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

A Farley Mowat Reader

By Farley Mowat, Richard Row, illus. Wendy Thomas, ed.

With 14 million copies of his 30 books sold in 52 languages, Farley Mowat’s name is established internationally among adults. These excerpts from eight of his autobiographical books should go a long way toward interesting ... Read More »

February 25, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Moon Tales

By Rina Singh, Debbie Lush, illus.

Moon Tales is a handsome book. Tucked between its deep blue endpapers dancing with stars and moons are 10 moon-themed folk tales with fat cushion-shaped windows of illustration, richly coloured paintings of mountains, forests, jungles, ... Read More »

February 25, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Stranded

By Eric Walters

We meet poor old Gordon Stevens departing with his Grade 7 classmates for a week-long field trip to an island. Unfortunately, before he gets on the bus, Gordon and the reader have to endure good-byes ... Read More »

February 25, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

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Nellie’s Quest

Winds Through Time

The Witcher

Carving My Name

Telling

★ The Party

The Body in the Basement

A Farley Mowat Reader

Moon Tales

Stranded

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