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Jake, Reinvented

By Gordon Korman

An ambitious teen analogue of The Great Gatsby, Gordon Korman’s new novel, Jake, Reinvented, makes explicit its literary antecedents: Jay and Daisy have been replaced by Jake and Didi; Tom and Nick by Todd and ... Read More »

November 25, 2003

The Healing Time of Hickeys

By Karen Rivers

Sixteen-year-old Haley Harmony is self-deprecatingly honest about her flaws, almost to a fault, in B.C. author Karen Rivers’ latest YA novel. The entries in her laptop diary demonstrate, with terrific comic and touching effect, the ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Book news

Fire in the North

By Brian McFarlane

The new Mitchell Brothers series features two teenage hockey-playing, crime-solving brothers in Northern Ontario in the 1930s. For his first foray into children’s fiction, renowned hockey writer and commentator Brian McFarlane dons the mantle worn ... Read More »

November 25, 2003

★ Acceleration

By Graham McNamee

Seventeen-year-old Duncan is spending his summer cataloguing lost junk in the Toronto Transit Commission’s subterranean Lost and Found. He’s going stir-crazy down in the “Dungeon” but he’s also escaping a heat wave and gets to ... Read More »

November 25, 2003

New Girl

By Mary Ann Scott

New Girl brims with unfulfilled story potential. Kaitlin’s family moves from tiny Heron Lake into her grandmother’s house in downtown Toronto midway through Kaitlin’s Grade 10 year. She has our immediate sympathy trying to navigate ... Read More »

November 25, 2003