“Ratchet Clark lived with her mother, Henriette, in a small, gloomy sub-basement apartment in Pensacola, Florida. They had no windows, but if they had she imagined they would be able to see worms, grubs, and ... Read More »
November 26, 2003
Like Glen Huser’s first young adult novel, Touch of the Clown, this one deals with marginalized Alberta kids struggling with social problems. Travis knows he is different from the other boys in his junior high ... Read More »
November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Book news
An ambitious teen analogue of The Great Gatsby, Gordon Korman’s new novel, Jake, Reinvented, makes explicit its literary antecedents: Jay and Daisy have been replaced by Jake and Didi; Tom and Nick by Todd and ... Read More »
November 25, 2003
Since he was kicked out by his mother when she found a new man, 16-year-old Dylan Wallace has been panhandling on the streets. Preparing for winter, he’s methodically coming up with his own manual for ... Read More »
November 25, 2003
Sixteen-year-old Haley Harmony is self-deprecatingly honest about her flaws, almost to a fault, in B.C. author Karen Rivers’ latest YA novel. The entries in her laptop diary demonstrate, with terrific comic and touching effect, the ... Read More »
November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Book news
Giving presents and getting presents: both are often fun, but not always easy. Jean Little’s many well-loved novels and poems explore the difficulties as well as the joys of family life, and this new poem ... Read More »
November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction
Sarah Ellis, the celebrated Vancouver author with X-ray insight into her child protagonists’ inner lives, turns her talents to something completely different: an ebullient bildungsroman that skips along with the sparkling wordplay of a junior ... Read More »
November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction
Michael Bedard, winner of the 1990 Governor General’s award, offers young readers a challenging collection of 23 tales ranging from ghost stories to love stories. Selected and adapted from the Liao-chai (a collection of 431 ... Read More »
November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction
The talents of master storyteller Bob Barton dovetail beautifully with those of painter Jirina Marton in this delightful collection featuring folk tales from Denmark, Russia, Finland, Sweden, Lithuania, England, and North America, several of them ... Read More »
November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Book news
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