November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short
Liza Potvin’s second book marks a change in genre for the Nanaimo resident; her first book was a memoir of childhood incest titled White Lies. The stories in her first fiction collection, The Traveller’s Hat, ... Read More »
On Oct. 23, 1958, the floors hit the ceilings of the Number 2 coal mine in Springhill, Nova Scotia, in three massive “bumps.” Above ground it felt like an earthquake, and registered as such on ... Read More »
November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History
The best selling novelist in Quebec these days is Marie Laberge, whose three-part family saga Le Goût du bonheur has sold more than 450,000 copies. Now another Laberge – Aimée, a cousin of Marie’s who ... Read More »
November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels
It’s not normal to be so normal, especially if your mother has just died: that’s what adults keep telling 16-year-old Martin Emerson. Everyone else in Martin’s household is struggling under a blanket of grief. His ... Read More »
November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction
At first glance 15-year-old Mike McGill seems like a typical smart-aleck and slacker. But there’s more to Mike – who’s under the dubious guardianship of his Uncle Billy since an unknown hit-and-run driver killed his ... Read More »
November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction
These four cheery titles are the newest in a series of nursery rhyme board books by veteran Toronto illustrator Heather Collins. Each traditional rhyme is given its own little book of sturdily bound boards, which ... Read More »
November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Picture Books
These four cheery titles are the newest in a series of nursery rhyme board books by veteran Toronto illustrator Heather Collins. Each traditional rhyme is given its own little book of sturdily bound boards, which ... Read More »
November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Picture Books
These four cheery titles are the newest in a series of nursery rhyme board books by veteran Toronto illustrator Heather Collins. Each traditional rhyme is given its own little book of sturdily bound boards, which ... Read More »
November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Picture Books
These four cheery titles are the newest in a series of nursery rhyme board books by veteran Toronto illustrator Heather Collins. Each traditional rhyme is given its own little book of sturdily bound boards, which ... Read More »
November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Picture Books
A trip for supplies becomes an unexpected challenge of strength and courage in this novel for middle readers. This simple and gentle story by first-time author Mi’sel Joe, chief of the only recognized band reserve ... Read More »
November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction