Ice Time: The Story of Hockey

Familiar scene: Mother and foot-dragging boy appear at the librarian’s desk. “He doesn’t read,” announces the mother, “but he likes sports. Can you recommend some sports stories?” In this situation, I am dutiful. I pick ... Read More »

September 13, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Our Game: A History of Hockey in Canada

By Dave Stubbs; Neal Portnoy, illus.

September 13, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Little Black Book for Girlz: A Book on Healthy Sexuality

By St. Stephen's Community House

This book, written by a group of teens from St. Stephen’s Community House (with help from staff and outside experts), is a resource for seekers of sexual knowledge, with some minor flaws. Although it’s aimed ... Read More »

September 13, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Flat-Out Rock: Ten Great Bands of the 60s

By Mike Tanner

Kids these days have it pretty rough. With books like this one providing such authoritative content on classic rock’s royalty, where are kids going to get all those great rumours and misinformed factoids that made ... Read More »

September 13, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

I’ll Sing You One-O

By Nan Gregory

Nan Gregory is a gifted storyteller who has written a number of award-winning picture books, including How Smudge Came. I’ll Sing You One-O is her ambitious debut as a YA novelist. Set in and around ... Read More »

September 13, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Out of Focus

By Margaret Buffie

In this teen issue novel set in Winnipeg and northwestern Ontario, Buffie tells the story of 16-year-old Bernice Dodd, whose alcoholic mother, Celia, has put her in a caretaking role she resents. Celia’s unreliability has ... Read More »

September 13, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Megiddo’s Shadow

By Arthur Slade

Devastated by the death of his older brother in France in September 1917, 16-year-old Edward Bathe defies his father by joining Saskatchewan’s Bull Moose Boys to fight “the Huns.” Edward wants to ensure that his ... Read More »

September 13, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

I Am a Taxi

By Deborah Ellis

I Am a Taxi’s 12-year-old protagonist, Diego, lives with his baby sister and mother in a tiny cell in Bolivia’s San Sebastian Women’s Prison; his father is incarcerated in the men’s prison across town because ... Read More »

September 13, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Christmas Eve Magic

By Lucie Papineau; Stéphane Poulin, illus.

It’s hard to be a Scrooge about a new Christmas book for children, but this collaboration between veteran children’s writer Lucie Papineau and two-time Governor General’s Award-winning illustrator Stéphane Poulin seems to miss its mark. ... Read More »

September 13, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

The Huron Carol

By Jean de Brebeuf; Jesse Edgar Middleton, trans.; Ian Wallace, illus.

The Huron Carol’s English lyrics by Jesse Edgar Middleton are an early 20th-century adaptation of a Huron hymn written circa 1641 by Father Jean de Brébeuf, a Jesuit missionary who lived with the Wendat (Huron) ... Read More »

September 13, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

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