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Strange Neighbors

By Mary Labatt

Strange Neighbors is Mary Labatt’s third in an early reader series featuring Sam the Dog Detective, an unlikely but likable hero. Sam is aided by two partners, 10-year-old Jennifer Levinsky, who can “hear” what Sam ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Book links

The Bully Boys

By Eric Walters

Lieutenant James FitzGibbon, an almost forgotten hero of the War of 1812, is the kind of larger-than-life figure whose daring exploits can make history come alive for today’s young readers. With a band of 50 ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Book links

Hogtown Bonbons

By Greg Kramer

Writer Greg Kramer has been entertaining readers of Toronto’s bi-weekly lesbian and gay newspaper, Xtra! since the spring of 1998 with a series of loosely linked short stories that have now been brought together in ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Two Much Alike

By Bernice Thurman Hunter

Some novels captivate us with a gripping premise and rocket-powered plot. Others charm us more quietly – though no less pleasurably – with a small, domestic, character-driven story that relies not on external pyrotechnics but ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Events

Topher

By Anita Horrocks

In Topher, seven-year-old Stacie and her 13-year-old brother, Chris, go on holiday with their father at Christopher Lake, in northern Saskatchewan, a spot their father hasn’t visited since his brother drowned there 30 years ago. ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Book news