Twelve-year-old Addy McLeod’s abusive stepfather has died and her little brother has disappeared, so she leaves home in a panic, camping out in the B.C. woods and eventually landing a job at a hotel in ... Read More »
March 25, 2011
The newest Dear Canada title deviates somewhat from the best-selling series’ formula of historical fiction about (and primarily for) young girls. First off, Hoping for Home is an anthology, not a novel, though the 11 ... Read More »
March 25, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
There’s nothing terribly civil about the title poem in Jonathan Bennett’s second collection, which describes a political protest that tumbles headlong into anarchic violence when the “blunt harm of a brick” is thrown at riot ... Read More »
March 21, 2011 | Filed under: Poetry
When siblings Ali and Ollie wake up one morning, they are surprised to discover a massive tiger sleeping on their front lawn. Since he’s wet, and there’s a smell of salt water in the air, ... Read More »
March 16, 2011 | Filed under: Picture Books
Kallie George’s The Melancholic Mermaid, an original fairy tale written and illustrated as elegantly as a classic one, is about being cast out and bullied, and the search to find someone who understands you. Initially, ... Read More »
March 16, 2011 | Filed under: Picture Books
From prolific Newfoundland author Maxine Trottier comes a moving story about some of the people who contribute to our country’s mosaic. In sophisticated, poetic language, Trottier describes the plight of young Anna, a girl whose ... Read More »
March 16, 2011 | Filed under: Picture Books
The banjo suffers from a stultifying reputation. Instead of imagining the spirit of an instrument that was once played by slaves who yearned to be free, we tend to associate it with redneck mountain men ... Read More »
March 7, 2011
Arriving exactly one year after the 2010 Olympics, this memoir by John Furlong, the former chief of the Vancouver Olympic Committee, is partly about the author’s journey from Ireland to Canada, and from an obscure ... Read More »
February 28, 2011 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help
“Hopelessness is isotropic,” writes Richard Wagamese in his new collection of personal essays, “the view in every direction is the same. That’s the nut of it. It’s hard to change when everything you see looks ... Read More »
February 22, 2011 | Filed under: Native Peoples
In the 17th century, hundreds of girls and women were sent from France – often against their will – to populate the New World. But little is known of these filles du roi, as they ... Read More »
February 17, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
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