Young Thugs: Inside the Dangerous World of Canadian Street Gangs

According to criminal justice consultant and youth gang expert Michael Chettleburgh, every Canadian city has, or will soon have, a problem with youth gangs. He shows us the statistics: 62 gangs, with over 1,100 members, ... Read More »

July 27, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

Notes from Canada’s Young Activists: A Generation Stands Up for Change

By Severn Cullis-Suzuki et al., eds.

The “activist” label can serve both as an honorific – especially when applied to figures such as the late June Callwood – and as a derisive epithet directed against those who agitate for social change ... Read More »

July 27, 2007 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

Phantom Shanghai

By Greg Girard

China is a hot topic for Canadian artists these days, as evidenced most recently by Guy Delisle’s graphic novel Shenzhen and Edward Burtynsky’s Burtynsky – China photo book. The latter set a high-water mark, covering ... Read More »

July 27, 2007 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

★ Domain

By Barbara Nickel

While so many poets follow up successful or promising first efforts with a rushed sophomore volume, it’s been 10 years since B.C.-based poet and children’s author Barbara Nickel published The Gladys Elegies, her award-winning debut ... Read More »

July 27, 2007 | Filed under: Poetry

No Humans Involved

By Kelley Armstrong

If you read only one “pre-menopausal necromancer dates werewolf and battles fake reality-TV psychics and real-life teen-runaway-abducting cultists” horror novel this year, No Humans Involved might not be the best choice.The seventh of 10 planned ... Read More »

July 27, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Buenos Aires Broken Hearts Club

By Jessica Morrison

The Buenos Aires Broken Hearts Club isn’t just any old chick lit novel – it’s a chick lit novel that takes its show on the road. As the book is at pains to point out ... Read More »

July 27, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Harmony

By Joanna Goodman

Anybody who has sat beside a child in pain, unable to do anything to help, will find the opening of Joanna Goodman’s novel Harmony compelling reading. Six-month-old Evan was born with club feet, we learn, ... Read More »

July 27, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Delible

By Anne Stone

With Delible, Vancouver writer and editor Anne Stone takes readers into the inner lives of two teenage girls, Melissa and Melora, coming of age in the Toronto suburbs in the early 1980s. The two sisters ... Read More »

July 27, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Shining at the Bottom of the Sea

By Stephen Marche

Shining at the Bottom of the Sea, a concept book and author Stephen Marche’s second title (after the 2005 novel Raymond and Hannah), is an anthology of Sanjanian writing, Sanjania being an imaginary island and ... Read More »

July 27, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

An Enchantment of Birds: Memories from a Birder’s Life

By Richard Cannings; Donald Gunn, illus.

Richard Cannings is one of those rare birds – a down-to-earth expert. Birders both experienced and novice are in good company with this inveterate and humorous naturalist, who shares his experiences and knowledge engagingly.The book’s ... Read More »

July 27, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

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