Kids’ Books

Alice, I Think

You’ve got to like a kid who continues in therapy just so her mental-health professional won’t be traumatized. And 15-year-old Alice, notwithstanding the opinions of her classmates, parents, and neighbours in Smithers, B.C., is terrific. ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Deadly Décisions

By Kathy Reichs

When Temperance “Tempe” Brennan first appeared on the fictional scene in 1997’s Déjà Dead, perceptive readers noted an almost slavish similarity to Patricia Cornwell’s Kay Scarpetta character. The book’s most unique element was its Montreal ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Grave Secrets

By Sylvia McNicoll

For Nicholas Dilon, 15, who’s recently moved into a new neighbourhood, the usual problems of making new friends and starting at a new school are compounded by ghostly goings-on. Nick’s plagued by nightmares about the ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Boy Must Die

By Jon Redfern

One of the prime directives of writing crime fiction is that retired homicide cops get no peace. Just as our first-few-pages hero is looking forward to a life of post-burnout relaxation, along comes a particularly ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Magic Eight Ball

By Marion Douglas

Calgary writer Marion Douglas has established herself as an eloquent prose stylist with special empathy for marginalized people, mainly lesbians. But her insight and creativity are open and available to any readers who appreciate a ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

A Paradigm of Earth

By Candas Jane Dorsey

Hospital child-care worker Morgan is trying to find reasons to keep living through an appalling synchronicity of failed relationships, the unexpected deaths of loved ones, and an increasingly reactionary Canada bent on punishing the poor ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Burning Ground

By Pearl Luke

Isolated from civilization for five months at the sardonically named Envy River Tower, with little more than a small cabin, watch tower, and outhouse, lives Percy Turner, a young woman deep in the throes of ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

The Dwelling

By Susie Moloney

In this psychological horror novel, a cancer-stricken widow attempts to sell a house that she knows is inhabited by ghosts. The dwelling in question is a large semi-renovated three-story house that boasts such features as ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

If Angels Fall

By Rick Mofina

Ottawa-based journalist Rick Mofina has produced a debut thriller that isn’t exactly thrilling, but charges ahead anyway, until the reader gives in to its anguished momentum. The plot concerns a spate of child kidnappings in ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Ice Lake

By John Farrow

Ever since his now infamous 1989 Harper’s manifesto on the state of contemporary American literature, Tom Wolfe has been hammering away at his thesis that today’s writers are too caught up in the tedious psychological ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

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