Adventure.net: The Lost Sketch

While at canoe camp in northern Ontario, Willow, 12, and her brother, Rick, 10, find a mysterious oil sketch in an abandoned boxcar in the woods. Willow becomes convinced that the sketch is an original ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Book news

Over the Edge

By Norah McClintock

Teenagers can be horribly cruel to each other, even murderous, as headlines in the past year confirm. A three-time winner of the Arthur Ellis Award for Crime Fiction, Norah McClintock faces this cruelty through her ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Book news

Charlie Wilcox

By Sharon E. McKay

Charlie Wilcox is an old-fashioned hero with the enormous appeal of the runt who triumphs against the odds. He is a 13-year-old Newfoundlander with a club foot and a heart set on becoming a sealer, ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Events

Double or Nothing

By Dennis Foon

Dennis Foon’s drama for young audiences has won him a heap of awards, including a Gemini, and an Emmy nomination for last year’s CBC movie White Lies, about white supremacist organizations recruiting teenagers. So while ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Bookselling, Industry news

White Lily

By Ting-Xing Ye

Set in late 19th-century China, Ting-Xing Ye’s short chapter book White Lily is the story of a young girl (named White Lily) who rebels against the cruel practice of foot binding. A norm amongst girls ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Book news

How to See Fairies: A Fairy Gift Box

By Charles van Sandwyk

Charles van Sandwyk, a young Vancouver artist who splits his home between the West Coast and a remote Fijian island, has written and illustrated this keepsake fairy kit. The kit contains van Sandwyk’s book, a ... Read More »