Children and YA Non-fiction

Great Girls: Profiles of Awesome Canadian Athletes

Canadian libraries need more resources that celebrate our stellar athletes. This new book fulfills this need and will inspire youngsters to get in the game. Great Girls profiles 17 Canadian women athletes ranging in age from ... Read More »

September 10, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Three Wishes: Palestinian and Israeli Children Speak

By Deborah Ellis

In her Breadwinner trilogy, Governor- General’s Award-winning author Deborah Ellis used fiction to explore the plight of children in war-torn Afghanistan. In this new book, she once again presents the situation of children in a ... Read More »

September 10, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

★ Fantastic Feats and Failures

By editors of YES Mag

Fantastic Feats and Failures explores the engineering ingenuity and flaws of buildings, bridges, and vehicles around the world. Its authors, editors of a kids’ bi-monthly science magazine, display their proven expertise at explaining scientific, technological, ... Read More »

September 10, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

The Greenpeace to Amchitka: An Environmental Odyssey

By Robert Hunter

There’s something about Greenpeace that’s slightly reminiscent of an aging 1960s rock star. Sure, it may still go off on the occasional bender, but on the whole it’s a respectable member of mainstream society. One ... Read More »

August 23, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

Sister to the Wolf

By Maxine Trottier

On a street in Quebec in 1703, a girl sees a Pawnee slave branded as punishment for running away. Next day she returns and buys the boy – to set him free. So Trottier sets ... Read More »

August 9, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Drumheller Dinosaur Dance

By Robert Heidbreder, Bill Slavin and Esperanca Melo, illus.

Fans of boisterous bedtimes will get a high kick out of this fun, fantastical take on Drumheller’s dinosaurs. Thanks to Robert Heidbreder, winner of a Prime Minister’s Award for Teaching Excellence and author of poetry ... Read More »

August 9, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

Bobbie Rosenfeld: The Olympian Who Could Do Everything

By Anne Dublin

Sadly, in 2004, Canadian star athlete Bobbie Rosenfeld is no longer a household name. Anne Dublin’s well-written and informative biography creates a compelling portrait of this influential but largely forgotten figure. It chronicles as well ... Read More »

August 9, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

The Hatbox Letters

By Beth Powning

The literary device of letters or diaries speaking across the years to someone from a later time is as old and hoary as fiction itself. To Beth Powning’s considerable credit, The Hatbox Letters makes the ... Read More »

July 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Nowhere Fast

By Yashin Blake

Toronto writer Yashin Blake gives us 18 stories for the initiated, populated with edgy urbanites dispensing wry witticisms as they hold forth on such little-known cultural phenomena as McCoy Tyner, Slayer, and the Project for ... Read More »

May 17, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

Scams!

By Andreas Schroeder

Scams!, a paean to both the con artist's imagination and the victim's gullibility, is Andreas Schroeder's first book for young readers and the latest in Annick's True Stories from the Edge series. In Scams!, Schroeder, ... Read More »

May 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

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Great Girls: Profiles of Awesome Canadian Athletes

Three Wishes: Palestinian and Israeli Children Speak

★ Fantastic Feats and Failures

The Greenpeace to Amchitka: An Environmental Odyssey

Sister to the Wolf

Drumheller Dinosaur Dance

Bobbie Rosenfeld: The Olympian Who Could Do Everything

The Hatbox Letters

Nowhere Fast

Scams!

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