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Taken

By Norah McClintock

In Norah McClintock’s latest teen crime novel, a lot of bad things happen to high-schooler Stephanie Rawls. Stephanie lives with her mother in a small town in Ontario, where a serial killer targeting teenage girls ... Read More »

October 16, 2009

Little Black Lies

By Tish Cohen

Tish Cohen’s poor-girl-goes-to-posh-private-school story has the first-person narrator, present-tense mode, and flashback-to-traumatic-event technique that is de rigueur in such works these days. It also has a familiar plot: Sara Black, daughter of her school’s new ... Read More »

October 16, 2009

thinandbeautiful.com

By Liane Shaw

Maddie Nessfield is in teenage hell: guards are watching her every move, and even her Internet access has been taken away. Her parents locked her up, and she has no idea why. After all, wanting ... Read More »

October 16, 2009

Tyranny

By Lesley Fairfield

In Tyranny, author and illustrator Lesley Fairfield documents the struggle of a teenage girl who falls victim to the thinsanity of popular culture. Despite evidence to the contrary, Anna thinks that she’s fat, and what ... Read More »

October 16, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Poster Boy

By Dede Crane

Graydon Fallon – “Gray” to his friends and family – is living the teenage dream. Though still a virgin, things are looking good with his hot girlfriend Natalie, who lets him get to second base ... Read More »

October 16, 2009

Binky the Space Cat

By Ashley Spires

Binky, a charming and chunky black-and-white house cat, isn’t your average feline. He’s a space cat, a card-carrying member of F.U.R.S.T (Felines of the Universe Ready for Space Travel). Binky is also the self-appointed protector ... Read More »

October 16, 2009 | Filed under: Picture Books

Hymn

By John Barton

To borrow from Robert Frost, something there is in Hymn that doesn’t love a full stop. The majority of the poems in this book are written in a headlong, breathless manner, with nary a period ... Read More »

October 16, 2009 | Filed under: Poetry

Track & Trace

By Zachariah Wells

Born on Prince Edward Island, currently based in Halifax, frequent Q&Q contributor Zachariah Wells is a Maritime poet of direct speech and muscular lexicon, both of which can be counted among the legacies of fellow ... Read More »

October 16, 2009 | Filed under: Poetry