Torn from Troy: Odyssey of a Slave

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

Wellington’s Rainy Day

By Carolyn Beck; Brooke Kerrigan, illus.

Brooke Kerrigan’s endearing illustrations are the star of this picture book about a floppy-eared dog called Wellington and his antagonistic relationship with a sneaky cat named Honey. Slave to his prodigious hound’s nose, Wellington can’t ... Read More »

May 30, 2011 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Pussycat, Pussycat, Where Have You Been?

By Dan Bar-el; Rae Maté, illus.

It’s hard to decide which is more impressive: Rae Maté’s stunning paintings or Dan Bar-el’s exhilarating adaptation of the traditional Mother Goose rhyme. What is certain is that together they manage to breathe new life ... Read More »

May 30, 2011 | Filed under: Picture Books

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

★ Cinnamon Baby

By Nicola Winstanley; Janice Nadeau, illus.

Note to politicians: if you want to test the general mood, forget focus groups and visioning seminars – just read some current picture books. Those who make art for the very young have a way ... Read More »

May 30, 2011 | Filed under: Picture Books

What Are You Doing?

By Elisa Amado; Manuel Monroy, illus.

May 30, 2011 | Filed under: Picture Books

Mathemagic! Number Tricks

By Lynda Colgan; Jane Kurisu, illus.

In Mathemagic!, veteran math educator Lynda Colgan offers up some entertaining number-themed tricks that young readers will have hours of fun performing, and which require only simple props like dice and beans, some basic math concepts, ... Read More »

May 30, 2011 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

From Then to Now: A Short History of the World

By Christopher Moore

In From Then to Now, Christopher Moore attempts a history of the world for young readers in fewer than 200 pages. A project like this requires careful strategizing over which events to include and which ... Read More »

May 30, 2011 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-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

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Torn from Troy: Odyssey of a Slave

She Said/She Saw

Wellington’s Rainy Day

★ Pussycat, Pussycat, Where Have You Been?

Blood Red Road

★ Cinnamon Baby

What Are You Doing?

Mathemagic! Number Tricks

From Then to Now: A Short History of the World

Loon Island

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