Constellations has a number of unique features that will hook readers young and old. The endpapers display a sky map of the major constellations in our galaxy, which serves as both a table of contents ... Read More »
April 5, 2006
Author Trudee Romanek of Barrie, Ontario, integrates both kid-friendly gross facts and good, solid information in this new book – another in the Mysterious You series – that’s a fascinating look at a subject that ... Read More »
April 5, 2006
Children who love to read are blessed by doubly adventurous lives. Not only do they experience their fiction with an intensity equal to or surpassing that of real life, but they tend to shape their ... Read More »
April 5, 2006
Will Fuller is a typical American teenager. He’s a decent student who dreams of starting a band, has a crush on a girl in his history class, and doesn't see much of his dad, a ... Read More »
April 5, 2006
The Kids Book of Great Canadian Women features thumbnail biographies of over 130 women who have, at some point, called this country home. Including politicians, scientists, and artists, the collection covers a wide range of ... Read More »
April 5, 2006
Toronto youth worker Kate Scowen has written a primer about depression and associated mental health issues for teens. This book doesn’t need to be read in any particular order, and a depressed adolescent – who ... Read More »
April 5, 2006
My Childhood Under Fire: A Sarajevo Diary chronicles three years in a young Bosnian girl’s life during the war in the former Yugoslavia. Nadja Halilbegovich, now a writer, singer, and poet living in Toronto, was ... Read More »
April 5, 2006
Trash Action is more than a “fresh look at garbage.” It’s also a fresh attempt to inspire children to care about our world’s garbage challenges and convince them of their individual and collective abilities to ... Read More »
April 5, 2006
In Amsterdam in 1928, women competed for the first time in Olympic track and field events. At the time, many Olympic Committee members felt that track and field competition was too strenuous for females. Others ... Read More »
April 5, 2006
Stanley Coren has been writing books for adults for a while now – with simple yet impossibly ambitious titles such as How Dogs Think and How to Speak Dog – so it makes perfect sense ... Read More »
April 5, 2006
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