Mercury Man

Tom Blake, a teen plagued by loneliness and self-doubt, is a Peter Parker (AKA Spiderman) type who discovers his inner superhero in Ottawa author Tom Henighan’s second YA novel Mercury Man. Henighan’s sci-fi fantasy is ... Read More »

October 13, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Last Chance Bay

By Anne Laurel Carter

In 1936 Beryl Markham, the British pioneer aviator, attempted the first solo non-stop transatlantic flight from England to New York. Battling low cloud, tempestuous weather, and a frozen fuel line that twice nearly stalled her ... Read More »

September 20, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Esther

By Sharon McKay

Stories of girls who pass as boys have been a perennial favourite in children’s historical fiction. In Esther, Sharon McKay (Charlie Wilcox’s Great War) explores this theme with a novel based on the true tale ... Read More »

September 20, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

So Cool

By Dennis Lee, Maryann Kovalski, illus.

Dennis Lee broke new ground in Canadian children’s poetry when his first collections appeared 30 years ago. Decades before Captain Underpants and Walter the Farting Dog arrived on the scene, Lee was gleefully serving up ... Read More »

September 20, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Monkey Business

By Wallace Edwards

Picture books are an illustrators’ medium, and their artwork plays the greatest part in their success or failure. A weak or mismatched text, however, can topple the work of even the most accomplished illustrators. Wallace ... Read More »

September 10, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

The Mob: The Crow Chronicles, Book One

By Clem Martini

At the reunion of the six great clans of the Crow Family Kinaar, Kalum, their official historian and storyteller, chronicles recent tragic events. In true bardic style, Kalum leads his fellow crows through the story ... Read More »

September 10, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Angeline

By Karleen Bradford

Five years after the end of her award-winning Crusades trilogy, Karleen Bradford re-engages the Holy Wars – this time the Children’s Crusade, the last and most tragic of the campaigns. Along with 20,000 other young ... Read More »

September 10, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Hippie House

By Katherine Holubitsky

In her third novel, Alberta author Katherine Holubitsky explores the after-effects of the rape and murder of a teenage girl on a small Ontario community, as recalled by narrator Emma, who was 14 at the ... Read More »

August 9, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Thunder from the Sea

By Joan Hiatt Harlow

American writer Joan Hiatt Harlow’s impressions of Newfoundland were shaped by stories told to her in childhood by her mother, who grew up there. Both Harlow’s affection for Newfoundland and the romance of her mother’s ... Read More »

August 9, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

A Winter’s Tale

By Gail Sidonie Sobat

The second in a planned trilogy of young adult fantasy novels by Edmonton author Gail Sidonie Sobat features a land suffering under the rule of a cruel lord named Winter, who outlaws festivities. The witches ... Read More »

August 9, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

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