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Great Gatsby, Gordon Korman’s new novel, Jake, Reinvented, makes explicit its literary antecedents: Jay and Daisy have been replaced by Jake and Didi; Tom and Nick by Todd and ...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
The new Mitchell Brothers series features two teenage hockey-playing, crime-solving brothers in Northern Ontario in the 1930s. For his first foray into children’s fiction, renowned hockey writer and commentator Brian McFarlane dons the mantle worn ... Read More »
November 25, 2003
Seventeen-year-old Duncan is spending his summer cataloguing lost junk in the Toronto Transit Commission’s subterranean Lost and Found. He’s going stir-crazy down in the “Dungeon” but he’s also escaping a heat wave and gets to ... Read More »
November 25, 2003
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