The Hippie House

In her third novel, Alberta author Katherine Holubitsky explores the after-effects of the rape and murder of a teenage girl on a small Ontario community, as recalled by narrator Emma, who was 14 at the ... Read More »

August 9, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Thunder from the Sea

By Joan Hiatt Harlow

American writer Joan Hiatt Harlow’s impressions of Newfoundland were shaped by stories told to her in childhood by her mother, who grew up there. Both Harlow’s affection for Newfoundland and the romance of her mother’s ... Read More »

August 9, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Sister to the Wolf

By Maxine Trottier

On a street in Quebec in 1703, a girl sees a Pawnee slave branded as punishment for running away. Next day she returns and buys the boy – to set him free. So Trottier sets ... Read More »

August 9, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Wild Science: Amazing Encounters Between Animals and the People Who Study Them

By Victoria Miles

"How come scientists always look so happy?” A colleague, looking over my shoulder at the review copy of Victoria Miles’s Wild Science, caught the flavour of the book in a glance. It is true. There’s ... Read More »

August 9, 2004

A Winter’s Tale

By Gail Sidonie Sobat

The second in a planned trilogy of young adult fantasy novels by Edmonton author Gail Sidonie Sobat features a land suffering under the rule of a cruel lord named Winter, who outlaws festivities. The witches ... Read More »

August 9, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Mystery of the Frozen Brains

By Marty Chan

Marty Chan hates secrets. They make his stomach churn. The bigger the secret, the harder it is to hide, and Marty is sitting on one “elephant of a secret”: he thinks he’s an alien. Adapted ... Read More »

August 9, 2004 | Filed under: Book news

Making Room

By Joanne Taylor, Peter Rankin, illus.

Somewhere in 19th-century Cape Breton, a young John William Smith clears land for a one-room house, his few animals, and a couple of apple trees. For a while, he’s contented, but eventually he goes looking ... Read More »

August 9, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

This Is Me and Where I Am

By Joanne Fitzgerald

One of childhood’s most mercurial big ideas is that the world is physically greater and experientially richer than what we see and know. In her first solo book, Governor General’s Award-winning illustrator Joanne Fitzgerald simplifies ... Read More »

August 9, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Drumheller Dinosaur Dance

By Robert Heidbreder, Bill Slavin and Esperanca Melo, illus.

Fans of boisterous bedtimes will get a high kick out of this fun, fantastical take on Drumheller’s dinosaurs. Thanks to Robert Heidbreder, winner of a Prime Minister’s Award for Teaching Excellence and author of poetry ... Read More »

August 9, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

Bobbie Rosenfeld: The Olympian Who Could Do Everything

By Anne Dublin

Sadly, in 2004, Canadian star athlete Bobbie Rosenfeld is no longer a household name. Anne Dublin’s well-written and informative biography creates a compelling portrait of this influential but largely forgotten figure. It chronicles as well ... Read More »

August 9, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

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The Hippie House

Thunder from the Sea

Sister to the Wolf

Wild Science: Amazing Encounters Between Animals and the People Who Study Them

A Winter’s Tale

The Mystery of the Frozen Brains

Making Room

This Is Me and Where I Am

Drumheller Dinosaur Dance

Bobbie Rosenfeld: The Olympian Who Could Do Everything

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