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The Heiress vs. the Establishment: Mrs. Campbell’s Campaign for Legal Justice

By Elizabeth Bethune Campbell, Constance and Nancy L. Backhouse

The study of Canadian history, often the butt of jokes about snooze buttons, does manage to come alive on occasion, especially when the Backhouse name is connected with it. Both Constance – author of numerous ... Read More »

May 26, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Nowhere Fast

By Yashin Blake

Toronto writer Yashin Blake gives us 18 stories for the initiated, populated with edgy urbanites dispensing wry witticisms as they hold forth on such little-known cultural phenomena as McCoy Tyner, Slayer, and the Project for ... Read More »

May 17, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

Scams!

By Andreas Schroeder

Scams!, a paean to both the con artist's imagination and the victim's gullibility, is Andreas Schroeder's first book for young readers and the latest in Annick's True Stories from the Edge series. In Scams!, Schroeder, ... Read More »

May 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Great Women Leaders

By Heather Ball

Great Women Leaders, the fourth in Second Story's Women's Hall of Fame Series, belongs to the inspirational school of biography. Featuring 10 subjects who overcame various types of prejudice to make enormous contributions to society, ... Read More »

May 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Ask Me Anything!

By Marg Meikle

Marg Meikle provides answers to questions kids wonder about, posed to her via post and e-mails or arising from her own enquiring mind. The results of her research range from the mildly interesting (why isn't ... Read More »

May 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Who Are You? Why You Look, Feel, and Act the Way You Do

By Sylvia Funston, Susanna Denti, illus., Gilbert Duclos, photo.

Achieving a healthy self-image has been a struggle for pre-teens for generations. This book takes a lighthearted approach to the difficult, sensitive topic by creating a hands-on manual that children can read, use, and experiment ... Read More »

May 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Our Song: The Story of “O Canada”

By Peter Kuitenbrouwer, Ashley Spires, illus.

Two interesting facts for young Canadian patriots: we didn't get our own flag until 1965; and "O Canada" wasn't adopted as our official national anthem until 1980, when Parliament passed the National Anthem Act. Maxine ... Read More »

May 12, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Our Canadian Flag

By Maxine Trottier, Brian Deines, illus.

May 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

The Silver Door

By Terry Griggs

Only a week has passed since the conclusion of Olivier's gloriously exciting (and scary) adventures in Terry Griggs's comic children's fantasy novel Cat's Eye Corner when the sequel, The Silver Door, opens. Olivier is spending ... Read More »

May 12, 2004

★ The Three Hedgehogs

By Javier Sáez Castán, Elisa Amado, trans.

This endearingly odd and clever book is a pantomime in two acts, set in the countryside. In Act One, three hedgehogs go out in search of food and gather a feast of apples from an ... Read More »

May 12, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

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The Heiress vs. the Establishment: Mrs. Campbell’s Campaign for Legal Justice

Nowhere Fast

Scams!

Great Women Leaders

Ask Me Anything!

Who Are You? Why You Look, Feel, and Act the Way You Do

Our Song: The Story of “O Canada”

Our Canadian Flag

The Silver Door

★ The Three Hedgehogs

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