At the tail end of the First World War, Canadian soldiers began returning home from overseas. Along with joy over the war’s end, they brought with them a virus that would turn out to be ... Read More »
December 21, 2011
Given the success of historical graphic novels like Chester Brown’s Louis Riel and Scott Chantler's Northwest Passage, it’s not surprising that a pair of young adult titles are taking a few pages out of Canadian ... Read More »
December 21, 2011
Given the success of historical graphic novels like Chester Brown’s Louis Riel and Scott Chantler's Northwest Passage, it’s not surprising that a pair of young adult titles are taking a few pages out of Canadian ... Read More »
December 21, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
A MacGuffin is a device or object used to set a plot in motion, but which has no importance in and of itself, or which declines in importance as the story wears on. (Think of ... Read More »
December 21, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
Kate Allen has lived through a lot of trauma in her 15 years. Her mother left when she was a child, her father died before her eyes, and she was sent from the family-run B&B ... Read More »
December 21, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
B.C. author Cyndi Sand-Eveland channels her experiences working with homeless youth into her second novel, a gritty and moving follow-up to her 2008 debut, Dear Toni. Mel Tulley and her mother, Cecily, are searching for ... Read More »
December 21, 2011
Former dancer Charis Marsh immerses young readers in the world of pliés and jetés in her debut novel. The first book in the Ballet School Confidential series centres on the lives of four aspiring dancers ... Read More »
December 21, 2011
Raven is one unhappy 11-year-old. She’s being forced to move west to live in the shadow of the Rockies with her mother, new stepdad Scott, and older sister Lily, and all she can think about ... Read More »
December 21, 2011
In Richard Ungar’s first middle-grade novel (following a successful series of picture books), 13-year-old Caleb is part of a team of highly trained time-travelling thieves “adopted” as young children by a man they call Uncle. ... Read More »
December 21, 2011 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction
With his latest novel, Toronto author and playwright Allan Stratton swerves sharply away from the finely observed realism of his previous YA novels (including 2005’s acclaimed Chanda’s Secrets) to arch, winning fantasy. The Grave Robber’s ... Read More »
December 21, 2011 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction
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