The Tinsmith

After finishing The Tinsmith, readers may be forgiven for concluding there’s no need for religions to construct versions of hell to keep the flock in line. That’s because Tim Bowling’s fourth novel grinds them through ... Read More »

May 15, 2012 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Beerlicious: The Art of Grillin’ and Chillin’

By Ted Reader

If Christmas is the season for hockey gift-books for dads, summer is for barbecue books. Each year a new crop of titles on how to char hunks of meat over coals and flames appears in ... Read More »

May 15, 2012 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Food & Drink

Way to Go

By Tom Ryan

Danny, a teenager living in a small Cape Breton town in the summer of 1994, has a secret. It’s a secret he keeps from his mother, father, and movie-quoting little sister, and from his high-school ... Read More »

April 19, 2012 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

The Chaos

By Nalo Hopkinson

Acclaimed science fiction and fantasy writer Nalo Hopkinson turns her attention to YA fiction with her latest novel. Painting the challenges and angst faced by adolescents with the broad strokes of fantasy, Hopkinson draws on ... Read More »

April 19, 2012 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

The Veil Weavers

By Maureen Bush

The fate of the magic world rests on 11-year-old Josh’s shoulders in the third instalment of Calgary author Maureen Bush’s Veil of Magic series. The curtain between the human and magic worlds has been torn, ... Read More »

April 19, 2012 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Daisy’s Perfect Word

By Sandra V. Feder; Susan Mitchell, illus.

More than anything else, Daisy loves words. She loves reading books under the tree in her backyard, and making up new words with her best friend, Emma, on the way to school. Daisy even collects ... Read More »

April 19, 2012 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

★ A Troublesome Boy

By Paul Vasey

Accomplished journalist, CBC Radio host, and author Paul Vasey brings an impressive resumé to his YA debut, an historical novel detailing the dark side of a fictional Catholic boarding school. It is 1959, and 14-year-old ... Read More »

April 19, 2012 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

★ The Opposite of Tidy

By Carrie Mac

The most recent offering from West Coast YA powerhouse Carrie Mac relates the experiences of 15-year-old Juniper (“Junie”) as her mother’s hoarding goes from problematic to potentially life-threatening. When Mom’s salvation arrives via an offer ... Read More »

April 19, 2012 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Oscar

By Jordan Troutt; Sarah Preston, illus.

The latest offering from Jordan Troutt and Sarah Preston (the author-illustrator team who collaborated on 2008’s The Naming Book of Rascally Rhymes) will likely please most young listeners, but it may drive some parents mad. ... Read More »

April 19, 2012 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

Doors in the Air

By David Weale; Pierre Pratt, illus.

Written in Seussian rhyming couplets, Charlottetown author David Weale’s Doors in the Air begins with a small boy itemizing the various parts of his house and its contents, employing alliteration that makes reading it aloud ... Read More »

April 19, 2012 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

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