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Dragon Seer

By Janet McNaughton

Set in the rugged but beautiful loch-pocked Orkney Islands of northern Scotland during the eighth century, Dragon Seer is the story of Madoca, a 14-year-old girl enslaved since the age of nine in the household ... Read More »

September 25, 2009

Inferno

By Robin Stevenson

Forget cutting class and mouthing off: for a kid who doesn’t fit in, just surviving high school may be the gutsiest act of all. Still struggling with her family’s move from the city to the ... Read More »

September 25, 2009

Wounded

By Eric Walters

Given that he has penned more than 60 books since his YA novel debut in 1993, Eric Walters knows a few things about narrative structure, enough to know when – and how much – to ... Read More »

September 25, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

The Odds Get Even

By Natale Ghent

Boney, Itchy, and Squeak are best friends, drawn together by their status as misfits and their proximity as neighbours. They also share a tree house, situated in Boney’s backyard, where they meet to eat crackers ... Read More »

September 25, 2009

David

By Ray Robertson

Ray Robertson has experimented with recent history in his fiction, chronicling the waning of Kerouac and the Beat dream in What Happened Later and examining the kaleidoscope of the late 1960s country-hippie milieu in Moody ... Read More »

September 21, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Democracy

By James Laxer

James Laxer’s Democracy, the latest in the Groundwood Guide series, begins with a statement that may surprise young readers: “In the West, citizens assume that they live in a democracy.” He then lists some of ... Read More »

August 31, 2009