Sweet Secrets: Stories of Menstruation

By Kathleen O’Grady and Paula Wansbrough

Anne Frank referred to the onset of her first period as a “sweet secret,” and anticipated its arrival with “wonder, joy, confusion and fear.” This new anthology combines adult reminiscences and candid adolescent reactions to ... Read More »

March 3, 2004

The Reality Machine

By Cliff Burns

With the crime rate falling but angst about crime continuing to rise, writer Cliff Burns skillfully captures the anxieties of modern life. In The Reality Machine, he offers 15 stories that startle without showing a ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Railways

By Robert Livesey, A.G. Smith, illus.

When a history of the building of railways across Canada includes information about eccentric people and unusual occurrences, that history can be fascinating. Fortunately, Robert Livesey includes both in Railways, his sixth book in a ... Read More »

March 3, 2004

Field of Thunder

By Rose Flem-Ath

Field of Thunder is a timely thriller, the threat of biological warfare in the Middle East serving as its central theme. Author Rose Flem-Ath has taken on a complex story that opens with secret British ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Grave Danger

By Gisela Tobien Sherman

This tale, Sherman’s fifth novel, begins on Cassie Denning’s 16th birthday as she films the dawn and thinks of the future. However, mysterious events soon disrupt her life. Rumours about her wild dancing, at times ... Read More »

March 3, 2004

Trapped in Ice

By Eric Walters

An adventure story, Trapped in Ice is a fictionalized account of a real 1913 Canadian Arctic expedition that included a 13-year-old girl, Helen, her younger brother, and their seamstress mother. The expedition ran into trouble ... Read More »

March 3, 2004

The Crying Jesus

By R.P. MacIntyre

A good short story doesn’t draw you in – it doesn’t have the time. You have to park your own world and enter the characters’ by the end of the first page. In this, his ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

1953: Chronicle of a Birth Foretold

By France Daigle, Robert Majzels, trans.

Readers who enjoyed the vivid scenes in France Daigle’s Real Life (winner of the 1991 Pascal Poirier Award), will find two characters they met there, Elizabeth, the physician, and Claude, the masseur, in Daigle’s latest ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Moonkid and Prometheus

By Paul Kropp

Nine years ago, YA readers were treated to the antics of Moonkid and his spirited sister in Paul Kropp’s Moonkid and Liberty. Two years have passed in the telescoped world of fiction. Ian “Moonkid” McNaughton ... Read More »

March 3, 2004

★ Dragonfire

By Karleen Bradford

Karleen Bradford’s latest novel draws upon medieval cosmology, Jungian psychology, and classic adventure-suspense to produce an intelligent and entertaining fantasy for young readers. The hero of this quest romance is 17-year-old Dahl, an orphan who ... Read More »

March 3, 2004

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