Resurrection Blues

Eighteen-year-old Flynn Robinson leaves high school and his sleepy suburban life to join a popular club circuit band, following his dream to be a rock musician like his Uncle Ray, who’s spent his whole life ... Read More »

April 15, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

The Horrors 1: Terrifying Tales for Teens

By Peter Carver, ed.

Horror is a specialized taste but a popular one, particularly among teens. Maybe with so many uncertainties and fears in their lives, it helps to be able to encounter them in a safe form. The ... Read More »

April 15, 2005

From Charlie’s Point of View

By Richard Scrimger

From Charlie’s Point of View, the new novel from Cobourg, Ontario, writer Richard Scrimger, occupies the middle ground between the work of Gordon Korman and the teenage detective TV show Veronica Mars. A solid mystery ... Read More »

April 15, 2005

★ Quid Pro Quo

By Vicki Grant

The narration of teen Cyril MacIntyre in the comic legal thriller Quid Pro Quo has the kind of timing, pacing, deadpan one-liners, and punchy humour that a seasoned stand-up comic would envy. No wonder that ... Read More »

April 15, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Alice MacLeod, Realist at Last

By Susan Juby

Fans of Susan Juby’s first two Alice books will find themselves well rewarded for the wait for the third. Here we catch up with Alice, still living in the small B.C. interior town of Smithers, ... Read More »

April 15, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Where’s Mom’s Hair? A Family’s Journey Through Cancer

By Debbie Watters, with Haydn and Emmett Watters, Sophie Hogan, photog.

Children tend to worry about things that are concrete and visible, so when a parent has cancer, kids often focus on hair loss. Their parent looks very different and might be quite self-conscious about this. ... Read More »

April 15, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Hemp Jewelry

By Judy Ann Sadler, June Bradford, illus.

Judy Ann Sadler takes up knots and beads to introduce kids to hemp jewelry making in her latest craft book. Hemp cord (made from fibres of the hemp plant) is popular for making jewelry because ... Read More »

April 15, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Battle Stations!: Fortifications Through the Ages

By Stephen Shapiro, Mei Tsao and Ken Nice, illus.

In Battle Stations, Toronto author Stephen Shapiro indulges his interest in military history to outline the ways we have defended ourselves over the past 3,500 years, and how those ways have evolved to meet changing ... Read More »

April 15, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

With the Boys: Field Notes on Being a Guy

By Jake MacDonald

In the first pages of his second man-in-nature memoir, Jake MacDonald invokes the manliest muse, Ernest Hemingway, lamenting that all hunting and fishing books end up being compared to the work of Papa. With such ... Read More »

April 11, 2005 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Devil in Babylon: Fear of Progress and The Birth of Modern Life

By Allan Levine

“Give me your tired, your poor/Your huddled masses…/Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,/I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” Anyone who has come within sight of the Statue of Liberty cannot but be ... Read More »

April 4, 2005 | Filed under: History

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Resurrection Blues

The Horrors 1: Terrifying Tales for Teens

From Charlie’s Point of View

★ Quid Pro Quo

Alice MacLeod, Realist at Last

Where’s Mom’s Hair? A Family’s Journey Through Cancer

Hemp Jewelry

Battle Stations!: Fortifications Through the Ages

With the Boys: Field Notes on Being a Guy

The Devil in Babylon: Fear of Progress and The Birth of Modern Life

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