The Haunting of Amos Manor

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

Winter: Five Windows on the Season

By Adam Gopnik

It’s fitting that New Yorker staff writer Adam Gopnik’s series of Massey Lectures begins with a quotation from Northrop Frye, as Frye’s influence can be felt throughout this wide-ranging cultural examination of the most archetypically ... Read More »

October 17, 2011 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination

By Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood, arguably Canada’s most beloved author, has faced criticism for the distinction she makes, both in relation to her own work and that of others, between “science fiction” and “speculative fiction,” appearing to elevate ... Read More »

October 11, 2011 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

★ Half-Blood Blues

By Esi Edugyan

The second novel from Victoria’s Esi Edugyan finds the writer not only at the top of her game, but utterly transcending even the high expectations created by her first novel, 2004’s The Second Life of ... Read More »

October 3, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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