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The Steps Across the Water

For several generations of young readers who grew up with Eloise, Kay Thompson’s heroine who lives the high life in the Plaza Hotel, New York City has always seemed the perfect place to be a ... Read More »

November 17, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Out of Darkness: The Jeff Healey Story

By Cindy Watson

Adult Canadians know how the story of Jeff Healey ends: the award-winning blues and jazz musician succumbed to cancer in 2008, at the age of 41. That Healey died too young goes without saying. But, ... Read More »

November 17, 2010

Design It! The Ordinary Things We Use Every Day and the Not-So-Ordinary Ways They Came to Be

By Rona Arato; Claudia Newell, illus.

For most kids, baths are a chore, a bed is for sleeping, and iPods are the coolest, newest way to enjoy music. But to the ancient Romans, a bath was a luxury. Egyptian pharaohs developed ... Read More »

November 17, 2010

Fatty Legs: True Story

By Christy Jordan-Fenton and Margaret Pokiak-Fenton; Liz Amini-Holmes, illus.

In Fatty Legs, Margaret Pokiak-Fenton and Christy Jordan-Fenton (Margaret’s daughter-in-law) present a memoir of young Margaret’s experiences at a northern residential school. Though the book’s dedication page suggests that her experiences were deeply traumatic, that ... Read More »

November 17, 2010

Great Lakes & Rugged Ground: Imagining Ontario

By Sarah N. Harvey and Leslie Buffam; Kasia Charko, illus.

It’s hard not to be a little skeptical about Great Lakes & Rugged Ground. After all, why would an author choose haiku – a very rigid form – to tell the history of Ontario and ... Read More »

November 17, 2010

What My Father Gave Me: Daughters Speak

By Melanie Little, ed.

There are few relationships quite as fraught as the one between teenage daughters and their fathers. Even if Dad can’t relate, or is embarrassing, overprotective, or overly doting, a good father-daughter relationship will generally weather ... Read More »

November 17, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Ghost of Heroes Past

By Charles Reid

Despite having been born on Remembrance Day, teenager Johnny Anders shows zero interest in Canadian military history. That is, until he receives a series of nocturnal visits from a ghost-soldier who transports him through time ... Read More »

November 17, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

The Book of Trees

By Leanne Lieberman

It’s 1995, and Mia, a recent high school grad from Toronto, has arrived in Jerusalem to study at a Jewish seminary. Encouraged by her devout but sheltered friend Aviva, Mia has only recently taken an ... Read More »

November 17, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Avalanche Dance

By Ellen Schwartz

Everything about Avalanche Dance relates to essential conflicts: between children and parents, between friends, and between societal expectations and personal will. Veteran B.C. children’s author Ellen Schwartz walks these narrative tightropes with ease, rarely tilting ... Read More »

November 17, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Jackson Jones: The Tale of a Boy, an Elf, and a Very Stinky Fish

By Jenn Kelly; Ariane Elsammak, illus.

This adventurous debut from Ottawa author Jenn Kelly has a perfectly silly spirit that helps put across the admirable lesson learned by its young protagonist, a lonely, book-loving boy with far less self-confidence than he ... Read More »

November 17, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

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The Steps Across the Water

Out of Darkness: The Jeff Healey Story

Design It! The Ordinary Things We Use Every Day and the Not-So-Ordinary Ways They Came to Be

Fatty Legs: True Story

Great Lakes & Rugged Ground: Imagining Ontario

What My Father Gave Me: Daughters Speak

Ghost of Heroes Past

The Book of Trees

Avalanche Dance

Jackson Jones: The Tale of a Boy, an Elf, and a Very Stinky Fish

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