Shot at Dawn, the third novel in Scholastic Canada’s I Am Canada series, is told from the point of view of First World War soldier Allan McBride on the eve of his execution for desertion. ... Read More »
March 30, 2011
On the heels of 2009’s Watcher, New Brunswick author Valerie Sherrard offers another sharp-edged novel for teens, this time with a story that exposes the emotional tricks of an addict and the tight bond between ... Read More »
March 30, 2011 | Filed under: Industry news
Blink and Caution are a pair of teens living on the streets of Toronto. One morning, Blink, who exists on pilfered breakfasts from fancy hotels, gets off on the wrong floor of the wrong building ... Read More »
March 30, 2011 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction
David Skuy, author of the popular trilogy of Charlie Joyce hockey novels, returns to Canada’s national winter sport with his first stand-alone novel. This sensitively written and compelling book tells the story of Mouse, an ... Read More »
March 30, 2011 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction
Seventeen-year-old Chloe Mills is in Greece on a summer volunteer work program when she is abducted by a couple who blindfold her, drug her, and take her by plane to another country. Worst case scenarios ... Read More »
March 30, 2011 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction
Fly Boy tells the story of David “Robbie” McWilliams, an Ontario boarding school student who lies about his age to follow his father into the RCAF during the Second World War. As McWilliams works his ... Read More »
March 30, 2011 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction
Anna Kerz’s first novel, The Mealworm Diaries, focused on the trials of Jeremy, a boy from Nova Scotia, as he adapted to a new life in Toronto after his father’s death. In Better Than Weird, ... Read More »
March 30, 2011 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction
In this amusing concept book, Toronto husband-and-wife team Sheryl and Simon Shapiro explore the idea of mixtures, both edible (like oil and vinegar for salad dressing) and otherwise (like blue and yellow paints to make ... Read More »
March 30, 2011 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books
As evocative and mysterious as a traditional fairy tale, Today, Maybe is an unusual picture book with strong emotional impact. Sheila Fischman’s able translation of Dominque Demers and Gabrielle Grimard’s Aujourd’hui, peut-être… leaves subtle echoes ... Read More »
March 30, 2011 | Filed under: Picture Books
The new book by Hugh Segal, Conservative senator and longtime party operative (including a stint as Prime Minister Brian Mulroney’s chief of staff), is among the most engaging of the books attempting to situate and ... Read More »
March 28, 2011 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
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