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To This Day: For the Bullied and the Beautiful

In 2013, B.C. poet, writer, and musician Shane Koyczan collaborated with 86 animators from around the globe to create a seven-minute video for “To This Day,” his spoken-word poem about surviving childhood bullying, which he ... Read More »

September 11, 2014 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

The Art of Getting Stared At

By Laura Langston

When a video made by 16-year-old Sloane Kendrick for a school project goes viral on YouTube, she is presented with the opportunity to apply to a prestigious film school. With only two weeks to complete ... Read More »

September 11, 2014 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Playing with Matches

By Suri Rosen

How could anything possibly go wrong when you’re just trying to make things right? That’s the question 16-year-old Raina Resnick is faced with when she gets herself into one messy situation after another in Suri ... Read More »

September 11, 2014 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

A Hole in My Heart

By Rie Charles

Why are saddle shoes wrong and loafers right? Nora Mackenzie’s not sure, but it’s 1959 and she knows that if she wants to fit in at her new school, the saddle shoes have got to ... Read More »

September 11, 2014 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

The Elevator Ghost

By Glen Huser; Stacy Innerst (illus.)

Carolina Giddle, an unusual woman with a pet tarantula named Chiquita and a penchant for spooky storytelling, moves into the supposedly haunted Blatchford Arms apartments in the latest middle-grade book from Governor General’s Literary Award ... Read More »

September 11, 2014 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Saving Turtles: A Kid’s Guide to Helping Endangered Creatures

By Sue Carstairs

Saving the planet’s endangered and threatened species evokes equal parts urgency and wonder in two new non-fiction books that will have young animal lovers starting petitions. First-time author Sue Carstairs – a veterinarian and executive ... Read More »

September 11, 2014 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books

How to Save a Species

By Ellen Butcher; Jonathan Baillie; Marilyn Baillie

September 11, 2014 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books

★ The Madman of Piney Woods

By Christopher Paul Curtis

.What makes Christopher Paul Curtis’s writing so funny? Reading the sequel to his Newberry Honor award-winning 2007 novel, Elijah of Buxton, I think I figured it out. Funny happens when the reader is thrown off ... Read More »

September 11, 2014 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

★ You’re Not Dead until You’re Forgotten

By John Dunning with Bill Brownstein

The best filmmaker memoirs are the ones that feel like movies themselves, whether it’s the epic, melodramatic sweep of Roman by Polanski or the wry, anti-establishment farce of Luis Buñuel’s My Last Sigh. To these ... Read More »

September 8, 2014 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ The Scarborough

By Michael Lista

Right from the devastating cover image, Michael Lista’s second collection is rife with craft and cultural implication. A VCR tape masks a grinning skull with a sickly smile that evokes Shakespeare’s Mercutio: “Ask for me ... Read More »

September 5, 2014 | Filed under: Poetry

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Quill and Quire

To This Day: For the Bullied and the Beautiful

The Art of Getting Stared At

Playing with Matches

A Hole in My Heart

The Elevator Ghost

Saving Turtles: A Kid’s Guide to Helping Endangered Creatures

How to Save a Species

★ The Madman of Piney Woods

★ You’re Not Dead until You’re Forgotten

★ The Scarborough

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