Children and YA Fiction

Survivors! True Death-defying Escapes

The most important part of this book’s title is not the word “survivors,” it’s the exclamation point. This is a book written in exclamation points, and while most of these accounts of survival are indeed ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Deep End Gang

By Peggy Dymond Leavey

This new mystery by Peggy Dymond Leavey, her fifth, has a crisp, lively plot and just enough quirkiness to give the story an edge. For example, the name of this ad-hoc gang – three twelvish ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Several Lives of Orphan Jack

By Sarah Ellis, Bruno St-Aubin, illus.

Sarah Ellis, the celebrated Vancouver author with X-ray insight into her child protagonists’ inner lives, turns her talents to something completely different: an ebullient bildungsroman that skips along with the sparkling wordplay of a junior ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Apples and Angel Ladders: A Collection of Pioneer Christmas Stories

By Irene Morck, Muriel Wood, illus.

Irene Morck’s Christmas stories are drawn from her father’s experiences as the child of a Danish immigrant family struggling to survive in the 1920s on their farm in Alberta’s central woodlands. Each of the six ... Read More »

November 23, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

A Group of One

By Rachna Gilmore

Fifteen-year-old Tara Mehta considers herself 100% Canadian and doesn’t want to be labelled by her skin colour or her Indian heritage. But when her paternal grandmother, Naniji, comes to Canada for a visit, Tara is ... Read More »

November 23, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Box Girl

By Sarah Withrow

Sarah Withrow’s characters are would-be escape artists: caught in painfully binding realities, they box themselves in even more tightly in preparation for flight. In her first novel, Bat Summer (which won the Groundwood First Novel ... Read More »

November 23, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

★ Imagine a Night

By Sarah L. Thomson, Rob Gonsalves, illus.

In a stunning debut picture book called Imagine a Night, Ontario artist Rob Gonsalves opens our eyes to his creative and highly original visions of the night. Rendered in acrylic, these exquisite paintings capture night ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

The True North Strange and Free

By Philomena Hurley Rutherford

Who knew that the Fathers of Confederation considered calling the new nation Hochelaga before settling on Canada, or that Canada Post keeps a mailbox deep in Sudbury Mines? Such are among the Canadian facts that ... Read More »

November 19, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Salmon Forest

By David Suzuki and Sarah Ellis, Sheena Lott, illus.

There’s a lot going on between this book’s attractive covers: the story of a father and daughter’s riverbank walk in autumn, a lesson in biology and ecology, an encounter with a native family who provide ... Read More »

November 19, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Nose from Jupiter

By Richard Scrimger

Suppose we took all the ingredients of the traditional young adult novel – divorce, bullies, frustrated romance, angst, personal introspection – and handed them to a little-known writer. Suppose the writer was a stay-at-home dad ... Read More »

November 14, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

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Quill and Quire

Survivors! True Death-defying Escapes

The Deep End Gang

The Several Lives of Orphan Jack

Apples and Angel Ladders: A Collection of Pioneer Christmas Stories

A Group of One

Box Girl

★ Imagine a Night

The True North Strange and Free

Salmon Forest

The Nose from Jupiter

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