Tempting Faith Dinapoli

The opening chapters of Tempting Faith DiNapoli brim with bodily fluids – not surprising, considering that four of the main characters, Matty, Faith, Hope, and Charlie, are all under the age of four. Those fluids ... Read More »

January 14, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Private View

By Jean McNeil

Alex, a disillusioned former artist, and Conrad, a manic mid-career artist, are flatmates and sometime lovers in London’s northeast end in transplanted Canadian novelist Jean McNeil’s Private View. It is a skillfully evoked, somewhat sordid ... Read More »

January 14, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

★ Donovan’s Station

By Robin McGrath

Writers of quality often come from the fringes, and places on the fringes can became centres of literary excellence. The Ireland of Yeats, Synge, and Joyce is one example, as is the American South of ... Read More »

January 14, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Wild Babies

By Margriet Ruurs, Andrew Kiss, illus.

With the arrival of spring come three new picture books featuring baby animals. Baby Elephant. and Baby Lion are the latest additions to the Nature Babies Series by husband-and-wife team Aubrey Lang and Wayne Lynch. ... Read More »

January 13, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Baby Lion

By Aubrey Lang, Wayne Lynch, illus.

January 13, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Baby Elephant

By Aubrey Lang, Wayne Lynch, illus.

January 13, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Kids Book of Canadian History

By Carlotta Hacker, John Mantha, illus.

The Kids Book of Canadian History provides an extensive, accessible introduction to the story of our country suitable for readers ages eight to 12. Author Carlotta Hacker’s background as a contributing editor to The Junior ... Read More »

January 12, 2004

Out of the Ashes

By Valerie Sherrard

Valerie Sherrard, the executive director of a group home for adolescents and the foster parent of more than 70 teens, has created a highly readable novel for this age group. Out of the Ashes is ... Read More »

January 12, 2004 | Filed under: Authors

Irish Chain

By Barbara Haworth-Attard

A quilt can be a family album, each scrap of material in the patchwork pattern commemorating rites of passage and memorable moments. In Irish Chain, Barbara Haworth-Attard’s latest historical YA novel – as in her ... Read More »

January 12, 2004

The Seeker

By Margaret Buffie

Emma Sweeney, a 16-year-old Watcher who doesn’t know who she really is, was not supposed to have bonded so deeply with her Earth family. But as she watches her adopted mother die, Emma vows to ... Read More »

January 12, 2004

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