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400 Kilometres

With 400 Kilometres, the final installment of Drew Hayden Taylor’s Someday trilogy, the story of Janice Wirth comes full circle. The trilogy began with Janice, then a baby named Grace Wabung, being plucked from her ... Read More »

September 15, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

The Far Away Home

By Marci Denesiuk

In a world that can overwhelm us with the carefree fantasies of self-help books and distorted, media-saturated hyper-happiness, the stories of Marci Denesiuk leave us with the idea that loneliness is the normal human condition. ... Read More »

September 14, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

Blood Price

By Jon Evans

If you have certain preconceptions about the lives of computer programmers, I heartily recommend you set them aside and read Blood Price, the new novel by Jon Evans. In Dark Places, Evans’ first novel, Paul ... Read More »

September 14, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Adieu, Betty Crocker

By François Gravel; Sheila Fischman, trans.

Arlette is the perfect housewife and mother, the one whose son had the first Beatles jacket in the neighbourhood because she sewed it for him, the one whose Christmas Eve celebrations looked like the pictures ... Read More »

September 14, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

A Short History of Indians in Canada

By Thomas King

In his 2003 CBC Massey Lectures – published as the impressive The Truth About Stories – writer and academic Thomas King outlined a poetics of native narrative. It was an expansive perspective, incorporating both the ... Read More »

September 6, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

The Storm Lion of Penzance

By Troon Harrison; Mark Foreman, illus.

After his father dies, Thomas moves with his mother from the rural interior of England to Cornwall’s stormy coast. There he learns to deal with the sea’s frightening power and to accept the changes that ... Read More »

August 29, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

Picturescape

By Elisa Gutiérrez

A picture book without words leaves space for the imagination, drawing readers in by soliciting their own narratives. Picturescape shows the adventures of a A schoolboy who gets drawn, literally, into the paintings he sees ... Read More »

August 29, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

Camilla Chameleon

By Colleen Sydor; Pascale Constantin, illus.

Camilla McNilly disappears every Saturday at suppertime when it’s liver and onions night in the McNilly household. Her schoolmates envy her unsurpassed hide-and-seek skills and how Camilla can read a comic book in class with ... Read More »

August 29, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

Mixed Beasts

By Kenyon Cox; Wallace Edwards, illus.

Zoologist Julius Duckworth O’Hare presents, in this delicious volume, an illustrated field guide to some of the most bizarre creatures on the globe. Here we meet fantastic beasts such as the Octopussycat, whose tentacles can ... Read More »

August 29, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

Lake Rules

By Maureen Garvie

Like a perfect summer at the cottage, Maureen Garvie’s Lake Rules is full of good books, messing around in boats, and the occasional hike into town for added excitement and adventure.Thirteen-year-old Leia Greenway is almost ... Read More »

August 29, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

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Quill and Quire

400 Kilometres

The Far Away Home

Blood Price

Adieu, Betty Crocker

A Short History of Indians in Canada

The Storm Lion of Penzance

Picturescape

Camilla Chameleon

Mixed Beasts

Lake Rules

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