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When we meet 15-year-old farm girl Jessica Grenier, she’s just come out of an 11-day coma (which she dubs the Big Sleep) after being charged by one of the family’s domesticated bison bulls. Suffering from ... Read More »

May 26, 2015 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Jacob’s Landing

By Daphne Greer

Nova Scotia author Daphne Greer’s latest book focuses on 12-year-old Jacob Mosher, who loses his father but discovers he has grandparents – Pearl and Frank – he didn’t know existed. Almost a year after his ... Read More »

May 25, 2015 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Fangirl’s Guide to the Galaxy: A Handbook for Girl Geeks

By Sam Maggs

There was a time, not so long ago, when it was rare to see women at comics conventions unless they were there as invited celebrity guests or brought along by their boyfriends. But the stigma ... Read More »

May 25, 2015 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

★ Specimen

By Irina Kovalyova

It’s no surprise to learn from Irina Koval-yova’s author bio that she is a senior lecturer in Simon Fraser University’s department of molecular biology and biochemistry. Or that she once interned for NASA. Or that ... Read More »

May 25, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Mad Miss Mimic

By Sarah Henstra

In her debut novel, Ryerson University English professor Sarah Henstra delivers a plot filled with intrigue, romance, and danger set against the backdrop of Victorian London. Her heroine is Leonora Somerville, a 17-year-old heiress who ... Read More »

May 25, 2015 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Power Up!: A Visual Exploration of Energy

By Shaker N. Paleja; Glenda Tse (illus.)

In his second book for young readers, Vancouver actor and author Shaker N. Paleja investigates energy: its formation, history, sources, production, and the many ways in which it’s used. The advantages and costs of fossil ... Read More »

May 25, 2015 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Wild Ideas: Let Nature Inspire Your Thinking

By Elin Kelsey; Soyeon Kim (illus.)

Elin Kelsey and Soyeon Kim have done it again. Their first collaboration, 2012’s You Are Stardust, was a breath of fresh air, inventive in its theme and gorgeous diorama-based illustration. Wild Ideas is equally delightful ... Read More »

May 25, 2015 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ This is Sadie

By Sara O’Leary; Julie Morstad (illus.)

Sadie is precocious. Sadie is adventurous. Sadie travels the world by ship without ever leaving her bedroom. In This is Sadie, Sara O’Leary and Julie Morstad – the writer and illustrator of the award-winning Henry ... Read More »

May 25, 2015 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Eat, Leo! Eat!

By Caroline Adderson; Josée Bisaillon (illus.)

Every Sunday, young Leo visits his nonna, who serves up a delizioso homemade pasta lunch for her extended family. These meals are clearly a big deal, but Leo wants no part of them. One Sunday, ... Read More »

May 25, 2015 | Filed under: Picture Books

What Was I Thinking? The Autobiography of an Idea and Other Essays

By Rick Salutin

The essay is a very personal form, a fact that provides columnist Rick Salutin his point of entry into this collection of new and previously published pieces. Salutin is a type of intellectual determinist, seeing ... Read More »

May 25, 2015 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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