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Box Girl

By Sarah Withrow

Sarah Withrow’s characters are would-be escape artists: caught in painfully binding realities, they box themselves in even more tightly in preparation for flight. In her first novel, Bat Summer (which won the Groundwood First Novel ... Read More »

November 23, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

On Wings of a Dragon

By Cora Taylor

Stories about surviving extraordinary hardship are always in demand, perhaps because of the hope inspired by those who manage to rise from the ashes of their former lives. In Cora Taylor’s latest fantasy for young ... Read More »

November 23, 2003 | Filed under: Book news

Scared to Death

By Norah McClintock

Two kinds of sleuths inhabit the detective genre: the Encyclopedia Browns, who are sought out, and the Sammy Keyes types, who always happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Three-time Arthur ... Read More »

November 21, 2003

The War Within

By Carol Matas

In the opening pages of The War Within, fledgling Southern belle Hannah Green rages in her diary that her little brother has been reading her journal. By the end of this story, she has lost ... Read More »

November 21, 2003 | Filed under: Industry news