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The Heaven Shop

Life is good for 13-year-old Binti, who’s a prefect at her private girls’ school and has a starring role on Malawi’s most popular radio show. Her worst Life is Life is good for 13-year-old Binti, ... Read More »

September 10, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Snow Amazing: Cool Facts and Warm Tales

By Jane Drake and Ann Love, Mark Thurman, illus.

In the world of snow there are three types: chionophobes (snow avoiders), chionoeuphores (snow endurers), and chionophiles (snow lovers). That’s one of many cool facts to be found in Snow Amazing, the latest collaboration by ... Read More »

September 10, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Great Girls: Profiles of Awesome Canadian Athletes

By Laura Robinson, Maija Robinson

Canadian libraries need more resources that celebrate our stellar athletes. This new book fulfills this need and will inspire youngsters to get in the game. Great Girls profiles 17 Canadian women athletes ranging in age from ... Read More »

September 10, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Three Wishes: Palestinian and Israeli Children Speak

By Deborah Ellis

In her Breadwinner trilogy, Governor- General’s Award-winning author Deborah Ellis used fiction to explore the plight of children in war-torn Afghanistan. In this new book, she once again presents the situation of children in a ... Read More »

September 10, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

★ Fantastic Feats and Failures

By editors of YES Mag

Fantastic Feats and Failures explores the engineering ingenuity and flaws of buildings, bridges, and vehicles around the world. Its authors, editors of a kids’ bi-monthly science magazine, display their proven expertise at explaining scientific, technological, ... Read More »

September 10, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Red Diaper Baby: A Memoir

By James Laxer

This short memoir by York University political science professor and writer James Laxer is successful because it is about much more than a single life. Laxer grew up in Montreal, Ottawa, and finally Toronto, his ... Read More »

September 7, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Damage Done by the Storm

By Jack Hodgins

There is something very Canadian about the stories in this, Jack Hodgins’ third collection. It’s not just that many of them are set in the author’s native B.C. – on the coast or the islands ... Read More »

August 30, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Greenpeace to Amchitka: An Environmental Odyssey

By Robert Hunter

There’s something about Greenpeace that’s slightly reminiscent of an aging 1960s rock star. Sure, it may still go off on the occasional bender, but on the whole it’s a respectable member of mainstream society. One ... Read More »

August 23, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

Love and Sweet Food: A Culinary Memoir

By Austin Clarke

It’s like cooking through a plastic bag, the way we spin our food round and round in silent electric mixers and turn to hand-held presses and precision-cut slicers to avoid scenting and staining our fingertips. ... Read More »

August 16, 2004 | Filed under: Food & Drink

★ Beneath the Bridge

By Hazel Hutchins, Ruth Ohi, illus.

In a forest glen, a young boy launches a small paper boat, then watches with excitement and worry as it makes its river journey out into the world, in Hazel Hutchins’ new picture book Beneath ... Read More »

August 16, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

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The Heaven Shop

Snow Amazing: Cool Facts and Warm Tales

Great Girls: Profiles of Awesome Canadian Athletes

Three Wishes: Palestinian and Israeli Children Speak

★ Fantastic Feats and Failures

Red Diaper Baby: A Memoir

Damage Done by the Storm

The Greenpeace to Amchitka: An Environmental Odyssey

Love and Sweet Food: A Culinary Memoir

★ Beneath the Bridge

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