Children and YA Non-fiction

The Mealworm Diaries

At the beginning of this debut novel from Toronto’s Anna Kerz, young Jeremy has just moved with his mother from rural Nova Scotia to Toronto after the death of his father. Details of that tragedy ... Read More »

March 16, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Earthgirl

By Jennifer Cowan

Earthgirl is smart, funny, attuned to the times, and completely appropriate for its intended audience. Veteran TV writer Jennifer Cowan has spent the past 20 years writing for such angsty teen shows as Ready or ... Read More »

March 16, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Puppet

By Eva Wiseman

Eva Wiseman’s dark but hopeful YA novels have explored the terrible legacy of the Holocaust in Hungary, the country of her birth. With Puppet, she takes readers to an earlier period in Hungary’s troubled history ... Read More »

March 16, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Listening

By Margaret Avison

It’s been almost two years since Margaret Avison, one of Canada’s most significant poets, died. Now that her “last poems” have been published, we can stop wondering what she left on her desk. Books of ... Read More »

March 16, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry

Mom and Me

By Marla Stewart Konrad

Getting There and Mom and Me are the first two entries in the World Vision Early Reader series. (Grand and I Like to Play are promised.) Both are filled with full-colour images from photographers around ... Read More »

March 16, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

Blood Upon Our Land: The North West Resistance Diary of Josephine Bouvier

By Maxine Trottier

For years, Canadian educators have struggled to interest young people in Canadian history. The Dear Canada series has mastered the trick, and proves it again with its 23rd volume. Blood Upon Our Land tackles the ... Read More »

February 17, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Cracked Up to Be

By Courtney Summers

Until her senior year of high school, Parker Fadley was teen royalty: cheerleading team captain, academic all-star, pretty, perfect. Now, she’s heading for social bottomfeeder status – and through the liberal use of icy insults, ... Read More »

February 17, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Penelope and the Preposterous Birthday Party

By Sheri Radford; Christine Tripp, illus.

This third Penelope book by author-illustrator duo Sheri Radford and Christine Tripp catches up with the exuberant and capricious girl on the day of her birthday party. All three Penelope titles involve a familiar childhood ... Read More »

February 17, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

Stripmalling

By Jon Paul Fiorentino; Evan Munday, illus.

Stripmalling is both a semi-autobiographical first novel from Winnipeg-born author Jon Paul Fiorentino and something more complex and metafictional. The hero, Jonny, is a 31-year-old aspiring writer and instructor at a “mildly respectable university” in ... Read More »

February 17, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Lenny Bruce Is Dead

By Jonathan Goldstein

The elegiac tone of Jonathan Goldstein’s first novel, Lenny Bruce Is Dead, doesn’t have much to do with the death of the iconoclastic, detatched comic of the title. Rather, Josh, who lives in Montreal, is ... Read More »

January 22, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

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