The Painted Wall and Other Strange Tales

Michael Bedard, winner of the 1990 Governor General’s award, offers young readers a challenging collection of 23 tales ranging from ghost stories to love stories. Selected and adapted from the Liao-chai (a collection of 431 ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

The Bear Says North: Tales from Northern Lands

By Bob Barton, Jirina Marton, illus.

The talents of master storyteller Bob Barton dovetail beautifully with those of painter Jirina Marton in this delightful collection featuring folk tales from Denmark, Russia, Finland, Sweden, Lithuania, England, and North America, several of them ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Book news

Fire in the North

By Brian McFarlane

The new Mitchell Brothers series features two teenage hockey-playing, crime-solving brothers in Northern Ontario in the 1930s. For his first foray into children’s fiction, renowned hockey writer and commentator Brian McFarlane dons the mantle worn ... Read More »

November 25, 2003

★ Acceleration

By Graham McNamee

Seventeen-year-old Duncan is spending his summer cataloguing lost junk in the Toronto Transit Commission’s subterranean Lost and Found. He’s going stir-crazy down in the “Dungeon” but he’s also escaping a heat wave and gets to ... Read More »

November 25, 2003

New Girl

By Mary Ann Scott

New Girl brims with unfulfilled story potential. Kaitlin’s family moves from tiny Heron Lake into her grandmother’s house in downtown Toronto midway through Kaitlin’s Grade 10 year. She has our immediate sympathy trying to navigate ... Read More »

November 25, 2003

The Deep End Gang

By Peggy Dymond Leavey

This new mystery by Peggy Dymond Leavey, her fifth, has a crisp, lively plot and just enough quirkiness to give the story an edge. For example, the name of this ad-hoc gang – three twelvish ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Courtesan’s Daughter

By Priscilla Galloway

At 15, Phano is on the threshold of womanhood in ancient Greece. But trouble is all around: her stepmother, a former courtesan, is pursued by a ruthless man named Phrynion, who claims she is both ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Survivors! True Death-defying Escapes

By Larry Verstraete

The most important part of this book’s title is not the word “survivors,” it’s the exclamation point. This is a book written in exclamation points, and while most of these accounts of survival are indeed ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

A Grain of Sand

By P.K. Page, Vladyana L. Krykorka, illus.

“To see a World in a Grain of Sand/And a Heaven in a Wild Flower/Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand/And Eternity in an hour.” These mysterious, beautiful words of William Blake have inspired ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Picture Books

Throwaway Daughter

By Ting-Xing Ye with William Bell

The central story of Ting-Xing Ye’s ambitious novel involves that quintessential adolescent quest to discover “Who am I?” Ye, born in Shanghai, and now living in Orillia, Ontario, is the author of an acclaimed memoir ... Read More »

November 25, 2003

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The Painted Wall and Other Strange Tales

The Bear Says North: Tales from Northern Lands

Fire in the North

★ Acceleration

New Girl

The Deep End Gang

The Courtesan’s Daughter

Survivors! True Death-defying Escapes

A Grain of Sand

Throwaway Daughter

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