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A time-travel device in fiction can work wonders to get kids interested in different eras and places – if it’s executed well. In her second novel for young readers, Calgary author Lois Donovan’s execution is ... Read More »

February 3, 2015 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Random Acts

By Valerie Sherrard

Someone somewhere once said: “The road to hell is paved with good intentions.” By the end of prolific New Brunswick author Valerie Sherrard’s newest middle-grade novel, no one understands that old adage better than Sherrard’s ... Read More »

February 3, 2015 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Neil Flambé and the Bard’s Banquet

By Kevin Sylvester

Neil Flambé is a triple threat: a world-renowned teen chef, a first-class detective, and a perfectionist grump. His appetizing adventures solving madcap mysteries are Silver Birch Award–winning Canadian bestsellers, and author Kevin Sylvester serves up ... Read More »

February 3, 2015 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Something Wiki

By Suzanne Sutherland

Jo Waller is struggling with how to express her individuality without straying too far from the crowd. It’s a typical tween problem, but 12-year-old Jo – a self-described acne-scarred, bespectacled, geeky loser – has found ... Read More »

February 3, 2015 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The World Without Us

By Robin Stevenson

Prologues are designed to pull readers into novels by presenting just enough of an event, usually a catastrophe, to make them crave answers. Prologues are also sometimes employed to compensate for weak stories, propelling us ... Read More »

February 3, 2015 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

See You Next Year

By Andrew Larsen; Todd Stewart (illus.)

The summer holiday presented in Andrew Larsen’s See You Next Year is a far cry from stimulus-overload Disneyland vacations or activity-filled cruises. Rather, the week at the beach at the centre of this gentle story ... Read More »

February 3, 2015 | Filed under: Picture Books

Best Friends Through Eternity

By Sylvia McNicoll

In her latest novel, veteran YA author Sylvia McNicoll takes a typical drama centred around the old standby theme of the kid who doesn’t fit in and turns it into something more interesting. Born in ... Read More »

February 3, 2015 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Knife Party at the Hotel Europa

By Mark Anthony Jarman

It’s unfortunate, but the qualities that make Mark Anthony Jarman the most interesting, if not the best, short-story writer in Canada today – in particular his unorthodox, experimental approach to style and form – are ... Read More »

February 2, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Evening Chorus

By Helen Humphreys

"There is nothing natural about a human being,” admits Rose Hunter, one of three central characters in Helen Humphreys’ latest novel. Set in the wartime England of The Lost Garden (2002) and Coventry (2008), and ... Read More »

February 2, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

If I Fall, If I Die

By Michael Christie

The grim industrial waterfront of Thunder Bay, Ontario, is the setting for the debut novel by B.C.-based author Michael Christie. This atmospheric work of gritty realism explores themes of class mobility, self-determination, and the impact ... Read More »

January 26, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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