This Dark Embrace

Los Angeles in the Dirty Thirties, and a dead-end kid from Toronto is trying to break free of the hobo jungle by driving a cab, when who should hop into the back seat with the ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Final Take: A Harriet Hubbley Mystery

By Jackie Manthorne

Classic Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett detectives are urban updates of the Old West cowboy: tough guy loners, ropin’ and ridin’ outside the confounded confines of the family, who find females appealing so long as ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Seeing Is Deceiving

By Suzanne North

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Plane Death: A Mystery Novel

By Anne M. Dooley

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Killing Spring: A Joanne Kilbourne Mystery

By Gail Bowen

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Pedrito’s Day

By Luis Garay

In Pedrito’s Day, Luis Garay returns to the subject of his 1993 collaboration with Monica Hughes, A Handful of Seeds. Both books examine a working child’s efforts to make a living in a poor Latin ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Ear-witness

By Mary Ann Scott

“It was 7:35 a.m. and I was desperate.” From the opening sentence of Ear-Witness the territory is clearly defined. We are in the gritty, mean-street world of detective fiction. All the gumshoe conventions are here ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Fables of the Times Tables

By Brigitte E. Kortright,Dennis Nobel, illus.

Rote memorization, once a time-honoured teaching tool, has really gone out of style. Days when kids could recite “The Cremation of Sam McGee” are gone forever, so much so that many children now fail to ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Side by Side: Animals Who Help Each Other (amazing Things Animals Do Series)

By Marilyn Baillie, Romi Caron, illus.

The idea of animal partnerships and co-operation is appealing to children, who will be surprised and intrigued by the strange relationships highlighted by science and nature author Marilyn Baillie in her new addition to Owl’s ... Read More »

March 10, 2004

Throwaway Angels

By Nancy Richler

Throwaway Angels is the first novel from Vancouver writer Nancy Richler and it’s set in the parts of the city that aren’t covered in the travel books. The central character, Tova, observes the lives of ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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