Silver Rain

Elsie’s family is living through hard times. When the Depression hits Canada, Elsie’s father abandons her, along with her mother, grandmother, and uncle, forcing them to move out of their home and struggle to make ... Read More »

November 17, 2010

Framed

By Gordon Korman

The latest book by prolific Montreal-born author Gordon Korman is the third in a truly absorbing series that reminds kids to stand up for what they believe in while simultaneously offering tales of elaborate, Ocean’s ... Read More »

November 17, 2010

Lucy Unstrung

By Carole Lazar

The transition from girl to young woman is a tricky one, full of embarrassment and uncertainty. Navigating the unknown territory of puberty with as few battle scars as possible is a rite of passage for ... Read More »

November 17, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Words that Start with B

By Vikki VanSickle

November 17, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

★ Prisoner of Dieppe: World War II

By Hugh Brewster

When Scholastic’s Dear Canada series began in 2001, its aim was to engage young female readers with Canadian history while providing useful resources for teachers and librarians. In the books, written in the form of ... Read More »

November 17, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

★ Blood and Iron: Building the Railway

By Paul Yee

November 17, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

One Hockey Night

By David Ward; Brian Deines, illus.

With One Hockey Night, David Ward and Brian Deines offer up a sequel to The Hockey Tree, which won a Saskatchewan Young Readers’ Choice award in 2007. In the new book, hockey-loving siblings Owen and ... Read More »

November 17, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

Together Forever

By Per-Henrik Gürth

In 2009’s When Wishes Come True, Little Bear yearned to be anything other than a polar bear cub living on barren, white stretches of Arctic ice with Mother Bear. He soon learned, however, that he ... Read More »

November 17, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

Hockey Opposites

By Per-Henrik Gürth

Per-Henrik Gürth’s Hockey Opposites is a delightfully cute and playful treatment of hockey for early readers. The book tells the story of a match between two teams made up of typical Gürthian critters such as ... Read More »

November 17, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

Viola Desmond Won’t Be Budged!

By Jody Nyasha Warner; Richard Rudnicki, illus.

One day in 1946, hair salon owner Viola Desmond’s car broke down in the town of New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. To pass the time while it was being fixed, she went to the movies, only ... Read More »

November 17, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

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