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BOOK REVIEWS

The Juvie Three

By Gordon Korman

Gordon Korman’s latest finds a trio of 15-year-old boys plucked from the American penal system and planted in an experimental halfway house in Manhattan. Gecko Fosse, a smart kid whose self-proclaimed hobby is not thinking, ... Read More »

November 3, 2008

First Time

By Meg Tilly

Navigating those tumultuous years between childhood and adulthood can be tricky business. Writing for and about adolescence – while remaining true to ever-changing teen culture, replete with its ephemeral slang and supercharged technological savvy – ... Read More »

November 3, 2008

They Called Me Red

By Christina Kilbourne

Navigating those tumultuous years between childhood and adulthood can be tricky business. Writing for and about adolescence – while remaining true to ever-changing teen culture, replete with its ephemeral slang and supercharged technological savvy – ... Read More »

November 3, 2008

Bookweird

By Paul Glennon

Ottawa author Paul Glennon takes the metafictional mode of his GG-nominated 2005 novel The Dodecahedron and adapts it for young readers in Bookweird. Eleven-year-old Norman Jespers-Vilnius somehow upsets “the weird” by inadvertently eating a page ... Read More »

November 3, 2008

★ Starclimber

By Kenneth Oppel

In the ripping fantasy yarns Airborn and Skybreaker, Kenneth Oppel took readers to the skies. In the third book of the trilogy, Starclimber, we head for the heavens, with Canada racing to be the first ... Read More »

November 3, 2008