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Angeline

Five years after the end of her award-winning Crusades trilogy, Karleen Bradford re-engages the Holy Wars – this time the Children’s Crusade, the last and most tragic of the campaigns. Along with 20,000 other young ... Read More »

September 10, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Heaven Shop

By Deborah Ellis

Life is good for 13-year-old Binti, who’s a prefect at her private girls’ school and has a starring role on Malawi’s most popular radio show. Her worst Life is Life is good for 13-year-old Binti, ... Read More »

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

Snow Amazing: Cool Facts and Warm Tales

By Jane Drake and Ann Love, Mark Thurman, illus.

In the world of snow there are three types: chionophobes (snow avoiders), chionoeuphores (snow endurers), and chionophiles (snow lovers). That’s one of many cool facts to be found in Snow Amazing, the latest collaboration by ... Read More »

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

Great Girls: Profiles of Awesome Canadian Athletes

By Laura Robinson, Maija Robinson

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

★ Beneath the Bridge

By Hazel Hutchins, Ruth Ohi, illus.

In a forest glen, a young boy launches a small paper boat, then watches with excitement and worry as it makes its river journey out into the world, in Hazel Hutchins’ new picture book Beneath ... Read More »

August 16, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Hippie House

By Katherine Holubitsky

In her third novel, Alberta author Katherine Holubitsky explores the after-effects of the rape and murder of a teenage girl on a small Ontario community, as recalled by narrator Emma, who was 14 at the ... Read More »

August 9, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Thunder from the Sea

By Joan Hiatt Harlow

American writer Joan Hiatt Harlow’s impressions of Newfoundland were shaped by stories told to her in childhood by her mother, who grew up there. Both Harlow’s affection for Newfoundland and the romance of her mother’s ... Read More »

August 9, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

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Angeline

The Heaven Shop

Snow Amazing: Cool Facts and Warm Tales

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

★ Beneath the Bridge

The Hippie House

Thunder from the Sea

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