Naked Brunch

Sparkle Hayter, a transplanted Canadian turned New Yorker, has attracted a cult-like following for the sassy, girl-powered Robin Hunter mystery series. Her new novel, Naked Brunch, abandons the winning Robin Hunter formula without abandoning Hayter’s ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

The Wrong Madonna

By Britt Holmstrom

The Wrong Madonna, Regina writer Britt Holmstrom’s second English-language novel, begins in a deserted churchyard in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, in the spring of 1965. “In this city, where the image of Madonna and Child cropped up ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Come on Dad! 75 Things for Fathers and Sons to Do Together

By Ed Avis, Geneviève Després, illus.

The idea is a good one. There’s room in the market for a book on activities for fathers and sons. But Chicago-based journalist Ed Avis’s book (with its same-size companion journal costing $15.95) fails on ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

The Young Adventurer’s Guide to Everest: From Avalanche to Zopkio

By Jonathan Chester

The Young Adventurer’s Guide to Everest, by climber and author Jonathan Chester, joins a spate of recent books for young readers and future mountaineers. Using the alphabet format of his popular A is for Antarctica, ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

The Countess and Me

By Paul Kropp

Jordan Bellemare is a recipe for disaster: a 13-year-old boy at a new high school in a new town, with no father on the scene, no friends, and a gang of cool guys who hold ... Read More »

January 21, 2004

Flood

By James Heneghan

I detest faeries. They dress funny, have difficult names, and are usually cloyingly impish. Not surprisingly, I try to avoid books – usually long, involved Celtic epics – in which faeries might play a part. ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

George Johnson’s War

By Maureen Garvie and Mary Beaty

George Johnson’s War is an accomplished work of historical “faction.” Garvie and Beaty have done much research on the fascinating Johnson family, real-life central players in the drama of the American War of Independence. The ... Read More »

January 21, 2004

Berta: A Remarkable Dog

By Celia Barker Lottridge, Elsa Myotte, illus.

Marjory Miller, Berta’s nine-year-old owner, admits that Berta appears to be interested in only two things: eating and sleeping. To Marjory, the docile canine seems entirely unremarkable. Then, one spring day, Berta begins to behave ... Read More »

January 21, 2004

Firewing

By Kenneth Oppel

Firewing is a first-rate sequel to Ken Oppel’s earlier award-winning novels, Silverwing and Sunwing. With a spring-tight plot, it propels the reader through exciting, chilling, and deliciously satisfying adventure. Oppel has created a new cast ... Read More »

January 21, 2004

Aziz the Storyteller

By Vi Hughes, Stefan Czernecki, illus.

Books representing an Islamic perspective garner a lot of interest these days, and Aziz the Storyteller draws on that interest in both its subject matter and its presentation. Though it’s an original story, this first ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

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Naked Brunch

The Wrong Madonna

Come on Dad! 75 Things for Fathers and Sons to Do Together

The Young Adventurer’s Guide to Everest: From Avalanche to Zopkio

The Countess and Me

Flood

George Johnson’s War

Berta: A Remarkable Dog

Firewing

Aziz the Storyteller

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