Bear on the Train

In Bear On the Train, a hungry bear follows the smell of grain right into a railway car. By the time the train pulls out, the bear is ready to hibernate and sleeps through the ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

★ Dreamstones

By Maxine Trottier, Stella East, illus.

Inukshuks – those strange human-like figures of piled rocks that are such a distinctive emblem of the Canadian Arctic – provide a centre for Maxine Trottier’s haunting story of a young boy lost in the ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

Looking for X

By Deborah Ellis

Most girls would feel trapped living on social assistance in Toronto’s Regent Park with their mother and two autistic brothers. But 11-year-old Khyber, who has named herself for a pass in Afghanistan, is one of ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Lionheart’s Scribe

By Karleen Bradford

Completing her trilogy about the Crusades with this volume, Karleen Bradford once again creates a gripping story that brings a distant time and place vividly alive for young readers today. Reflecting contemporary awareness that the ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Other Place

By Monica Hughes

Fans of futuristic fiction will welcome this “somewhere in space” novel by Monica Hughes, award-winning author and acknowledged creator of contemporary Canadian science fiction for young people.The Other Place is an intriguing story about the ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Magic Mustache

By Gary Barwin, Stéphane Jorisch, illus.

In his playful second book for children, poet Gary Barwin riffs on the traditional tale of Jack and the Beanstalk. Here, a nose and his parents (two old eyes) are desperately poor, and a pair ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

The Forest Family

By Joan Bodger, Mark Lang, illus.

The demise of the fairy folk and their tales has been announced for centuries. The Wife of Bath, looking backward nostalgically to the time of King Arthur when the elf-queen danced upon the green, complains ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Lefty Carmichael Has a Fit

By Don Trembath

Fifteen-year-old Lefty Carmichael has a lot to deal with even before his epilepsy is diagnosed. Reuben, his best friend, is on the verge of becoming alcoholic; his girlfriend, Penny, can’t commit to a relationship; and ... Read More »

February 3, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Password: Murder

By Norah McClintock

The day Harley got his learner’s permit, he convinced his dad to let him drive. It’s a day Harley will never forget. A big rig jackknifed on the highway, there was a crash, and his ... Read More »

February 3, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Norman Bethune: A Life of Passionate Conviction

By John Wilson

Bethune is the first to be profiled in the newly launched Quest Library, a series of biographies of famous Canadians including Pauline Johnson and Tommy Douglas. Bethune emerges a far more interesting and complex man ... Read More »

February 3, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

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