Last Man Out: The Story of the Springhill Mine Disaster

On Oct. 23, 1958, the floors hit the ceilings of the Number 2 coal mine in Springhill, Nova Scotia, in three massive “bumps.” Above ground it felt like an earthquake, and registered as such on ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

★ Rogue Diamonds: The Rush for Northern Riches on Dene Land

By Ellen Bielawski

Rogue Diamonds begins right where it should: on the land. Specifically, the land of the Dene Súliné people, near the northeastern part of Great Slave Lake in the Northwest Territories. But it soon shifts to ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Native Peoples

Risking It All: My Student, My Lover, My Story

By Heather E. Ingram

Heather Ingram’s memoir about her affair with a 17-year-old student explores one of today’s trickiest topics – the sexual exploitation of minors. In Risking It All Ingram recounts her stark childhood, the emotionally and sexually ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Summer of the Heart: Saving Alexandre

By Paul Adams

We’ve all watched with some amusement as frantic first-time parents worry whether each sound (or lack thereof) emitting from their newborn’s crib is a sign of something critical. In Summer of the Heart, Paul Adams, ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

A History of Mistresses

By Elizabeth Abbott

If motherhood is the second-oldest profession, mistressdom followed soon after. It is an evocative word, “mistress,” suggesting sensual sophistication and luxury. Elizabeth Abbott’s A History of Mistresses sets out to determine whether the reality matches ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: History

My First Canadian Oxford Dictionary

By Evelyn Goldsmith, compiler, Julie Park and Mark Thurman, illus.

Dictionaries for children are an odd enterprise. They are supposed to be about definitions but they contain words like “day” and “sick,” which I can’t imagine any child looking up for meaning, and they tend ... Read More »

November 26, 2003

★ No Small Thing

By Natale Ghent

What makes a child disadvantaged? This question underlies a new novel, set in 1977, by Natale Ghent, a journalist and the author of Piper. Twelve-year-old Nathaniel, the narrator, and his two sisters have been economically ... Read More »

November 26, 2003

The Man in the Moonstone

By Melanie Jackson

In the second book of the Dinah Galloway mystery series, the 11-year-old sleuth gets a part in a musical stage adaptation of Wilkie Collins’ The Moonstone, the first Victorian detective novel. On stage, Dinah plays ... Read More »

November 26, 2003

Becoming Ruby

By Kathy Stinson

Unless you’re paying close attention, you might miss the fact that this perceptive coming-of-age novel takes place more than 35 years ago. One tip-off is that most moms today (in kids’ books, anyway) don’t chain-smoke, ... Read More »

November 26, 2003

And in the Morning

By John Wilson

Fifteen-year-old Jim Hay starts his diary on Aug. 4, 1914, the day Britain enters the Great War. Thrilled his father is going to fight, he wishes he was older and could join up too. He ... Read More »

November 26, 2003

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