Nowhere Else on Earth: Standing Tall for the Great Bear Rainforest

Concern about our impact on the environment has come to the forefront in recent years. While many people take steps to support conservation, most tend to carry on without taking action. Not so for environmental ... Read More »

October 19, 2011 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

A Stranger at Home

By Christy Jordan-Fenton and Margaret Pokiak-Fenton; Liz Amini-Holmes

A Stranger at Home is the second instalment in Margaret Pokiak-Fenton’s poignant memoirs, written with her daughter-in-law, Christy Jordan-Fenton. The first, Fatty Legs, recalled Margaret’s miserable, two-year stay at a residential school in the Northwest ... Read More »

October 19, 2011

If I Tell

By Janet Gurtler

Let’s say you see your best friend kissing your mom’s boyfriend, and then you discover your mom is pregnant by said scumbag. Do you tell your mom about the kiss? This is the dilemma facing ... Read More »

October 19, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

The Haunting of Amos Manor

By Richard Stevenson

The Waldman family – Mom and Dad, eight-year-old Karen, and 12-year-old narrator Mark – move to the area outside of Chilliwack, B.C., for Dad’s new job. They purchase a rundown house on the outskirts of ... Read More »

October 19, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Dalen & Gole: Scandal in Port Angus

By Mike Deas

Times are tough in the once thriving coastal fishing village of Port Angus, where the fish supply has suddenly dried up. Enter Dalen and Gole, a pair of adventure-seeking young aliens from the planet Budap, ... Read More »

October 19, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

True Blue

By Deborah Ellis

As a straight-ahead murder mystery, True Blue represents a departure for author Deborah Ellis, who is known for her many stellar YA novels focusing on the lives of immigrant and refugee teens. Long-time best friends ... Read More »

October 19, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Howl

By Karen Hood-Caddy

Following her mother’s death, 12-year-old Robin finds her family transplanted from Winnipeg to her grandmother’s rural home in Ontario’s cottage country. While Robin’s father continues working as a veterinarian and her teenaged sister and young ... Read More »

October 19, 2011

A Forest of Gold

By Courtney Maika

Courtney Maika was just 17 when she wrote A Forest of Gold, but the talented young author has created a winning character in Emily Pattersen, a 12-year-old schoolgirl living in the Northern Ontario town of ... Read More »

October 19, 2011

Grandpa’s Girls

By Nicola I. Campbell; Kim LaFave, illus.

Grandpa’s Girls follows a group of four cheerful Interior Salish cousins let loose on their grandfather’s sprawling B.C. farm. The book is not a traditional narrative so much as a play-by-play of a random, rambling ... Read More »

October 19, 2011 | Filed under: Picture Books

Pierre in the Air

By Andrea Beck

Author, illustrator, and former toy designer Andrea Beck returns with a third tale about pampered poodle Pierre and his imaginary daredevil alter ego, Pierre Le Poof. Champion show-poodle Pierre visits Paris for an important competition, ... Read More »

October 19, 2011 | Filed under: Picture Books

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