Children and YA Fiction

The Incredibly Ordinary Danny Chandelier

B.C. author Laura Trunkey’s dryly funny debut novel is centred around the misadventures of Lily Brook Academy’s newest student, Danny Chandelier. Danny suffers from a malady most distressing: an astonishing capacity for adequateness. Eager to ... Read More »

November 3, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Getting the Girl

By Susan Juby

Most of the charm of Susan Juby’s newest novel for teens comes from the voice of her main character, Sherman Mack, one helluva kid living in Nanaimo, B.C., who thinks he can crack his high ... Read More »

November 3, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Wolf Man

By Edo van Belkom

Wolf Man, the fourth novel in Brampton, Ontario, writer Edo van Belkom’s Wolf Pack series, begins with an attack that has dangerous repercussions for the inhabitants – human, animal, and in-between – of Redstone, B.C. ... Read More »

November 3, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

★ The Boy Who Ate the World (and the girl who saved it)

By Don Gillmor; Pierre Pratt, illus.

Don Gillmor’s delightfully alarming new picture book begins with the absurd premise that a boy could eat up so much of the world that “The earth wasn’t even round any more. It was shaped like ... Read More »

November 3, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

Off to War: Voices of Soldiers’ Children

By Deborah Ellis

Author Deborah Ellis has built a reputation on writing stories that bring attention to the plight of the world’s marginalized children. She often visits developing or war-torn countries, sometimes at great risk to herself, to ... Read More »

October 29, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Shadow of Malabron

By Thomas Wharton

Teenager Will Lightfoot steals his father’s antique motorcycle and crashes spectacularly into an alternate world – the Perilous Realm, the place where all stories begin. And, as Will soon discovers, perilous it is – it’s ... Read More »

October 29, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Alexandria of Africa

By Eric Walters

Fifteen-year-old Alexandria Hyatt wears Gucci and Prada, gets her hair coiffed by Mr. Henri, owns a Pomeranian pup named Sprout who serves as both companion and fashion accessory, and has her filthy-rich parents wrapped around ... Read More »

October 29, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

My One Hundred Adventures

By Polly Horvath

The summer she turns 12, Jane is ready to grow up and experience “the know-not-what.” Her life in a small beach house with her poet mother and three younger siblings is too confining, so she ... Read More »

October 29, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Animals at the EDGE: Saving the World’s Rarest Creatures

By Jonathan Baillie and Marilyn Baillie

The animal on the cover of Animals at the EDGE looks like something dreamed up by Disney – a mouse-like critter with button eyes, a bright pink nose, tiny perfect feet, and impossibly large ears. ... Read More »

October 6, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

★ Buttercup’s Lovely Day

By Carolyn Beck; Andrea Beck, illus.

Buttercup is blissed out. On a beautiful summer day, the happy cow rhapsodizes about her delight in the rural world. She loves this day, the clouds, the fields, her tongue, the creek –and that’s just ... Read More »

May 12, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

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