New Girl

New Girl brims with unfulfilled story potential. Kaitlin’s family moves from tiny Heron Lake into her grandmother’s house in downtown Toronto midway through Kaitlin’s Grade 10 year. She has our immediate sympathy trying to navigate ... Read More »

November 25, 2003

The Deep End Gang

By Peggy Dymond Leavey

This new mystery by Peggy Dymond Leavey, her fifth, has a crisp, lively plot and just enough quirkiness to give the story an edge. For example, the name of this ad-hoc gang – three twelvish ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Courtesan’s Daughter

By Priscilla Galloway

At 15, Phano is on the threshold of womanhood in ancient Greece. But trouble is all around: her stepmother, a former courtesan, is pursued by a ruthless man named Phrynion, who claims she is both ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Survivors! True Death-defying Escapes

By Larry Verstraete

The most important part of this book’s title is not the word “survivors,” it’s the exclamation point. This is a book written in exclamation points, and while most of these accounts of survival are indeed ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

A Grain of Sand

By P.K. Page, Vladyana L. Krykorka, illus.

“To see a World in a Grain of Sand/And a Heaven in a Wild Flower/Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand/And Eternity in an hour.” These mysterious, beautiful words of William Blake have inspired ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Picture Books

Throwaway Daughter

By Ting-Xing Ye with William Bell

The central story of Ting-Xing Ye’s ambitious novel involves that quintessential adolescent quest to discover “Who am I?” Ye, born in Shanghai, and now living in Orillia, Ontario, is the author of an acclaimed memoir ... Read More »

November 25, 2003

Cheeseburger Subversive

By Richard Scarsbrook

Poet and short story writer Richard Scarsbrook has parlayed a 1999 short story into a first novel with mixed results. We follow the adventures of Dak Sifter in discrete vignettes, from Grade 7 to first ... Read More »

November 25, 2003

The Night Spies

By Kathy Kacer

In The Night Spies, Gabi, her cousin Max, and her mother are forced into hiding in 1944 by increasingly murderous Nazi activity in their native Czechoslovakia. Mr. Kos, a sympathetic former employee, gives the family ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Book news

The Dinosaur Atlas

By Don Lessem, John Bindon, illus.

Gorgeous endpapers adorned with vibrant dinosaurs invite readers to plunge into The Dinosaur Atlas. Tracing the development of dinosaurs from the late Triassic to the late Cretaceous era, this dense compendium successfully conveys a lot ... Read More »

November 25, 2003

★ Choosing His Coffin

By Austin Clarke

“We are all lost,” a preacher shouts from a car radio at a son and mother in the title story of Choosing His Coffin, a collection of 20 of Austin Clarke’s best short stories. The ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Prev 1042 104310441045 1046....1082 1083 Next