Dancing Lessons

Olive Senior’s debut novel is the latest addition to the author’s acclaimed fictions of postcolonial Jamaican culture, which include the 1986 story collection Summer Lightning, winner of the inaugural Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book. ... Read More »

September 12, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

This Dark Endeavour: The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein

By Kenneth Oppel

The movie rights to Kenneth Oppel’s latest novel have already been sold to the producers of the Twilight series. No surprise there. This Dark Endeavour has all the elements – a love triangle, the supernatural, ... Read More »

September 7, 2011 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

★ The Circle Game

By Joni Mitchell; Brian Deines, illus.

Since its release on her 1970 album Ladies of the Canyon, “The Circle Game” has endured as one of the best-loved songs by Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell. Though those old enough to remember hearing it ... Read More »

September 7, 2011 | Filed under: Picture Books

No Ordinary Day

By Deborah Ellis

There is nothing harder to perceive than our own preconceptions, and perhaps no better remedy for this blindness than walking a mile in someone else’s shoes. That idea drives two new novels by a pair ... Read More »

September 7, 2011 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

First Descent

By Pam Withers

September 7, 2011 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

★ Off to Class: Incredible and Unusual Schools Around the World

By Susan Hughes

Around the world, over 100 million kids are not getting an education, despite the United Nations declaring it a basic human right. Most North American children rarely, if ever, consider how their peers around the ... Read More »

September 7, 2011 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Catboy

By Eric Walters

When veteran YA author Eric Walters decided to seek some friendly advice in writing his latest novel, he didn’t just find himself an editor: he enlisted 800 of them. Every Monday for 10 weeks, students ... Read More »

September 7, 2011 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

★ Nini

By François Thisdale

Two new picture books provide heartwarming takes on adoption, new homes, and new beginnings. Though different in style and presentation, both offer reassurance that love and the human spirit can thrive even under the most ... Read More »

September 2, 2011 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Dirt Chronicles

By Kristyn Dunnion

The Dirt Chronicles follows a group of Toronto-area teens and young adults making their way in a world that has given them nothing and kicked them on the way down. Kristyn Dunnion (also known as ... Read More »

August 29, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ The Cat’s Table

By Michael Ondaatje

Certain experiences are galvanizing and become indelible, shaping a life. Such is true of the sea voyage at the heart of Michael Ondaatje’s sixth novel, a story so enveloping and beautifully rendered, one is reluctant ... Read More »

August 25, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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