No Place Strange

How does one begin to condense a topic as complex as Arab-Israeli relations into a manageable story without either losing readers or alienating one side? If you’re Diana Fitzgerald Bryden, you do it through a ... Read More »

October 5, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Fallen

By Stephen Finucan

The opening scene of Stephen Finucan’s powerful debut novel sets the tone for his story: a donkey lies dying in a Naples street in 1944 under the gaze of two-bit thief and failed doctor Aldo ... Read More »

October 5, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Paulina P. (for Petersen)

By Lisa Cinar

Paulina Petersen prefers the letter P. And when you hear how Paulina puts it, who wouldn’t? Being so partial is a perfectly pardonable predilection! In her second book for children, author-illustrator Lisa Cinar shows, through ... Read More »

October 5, 2009 | Filed under: Picture Books

Savage Gods, Silver Ghosts: In the Wild with Ted Hughes

By Ehor Boyanowsky

At first glance, the author and subject of this unusual memoir seem an unlikely pair of friends. Boyanowsky is a Simon Fraser University psychology professor, while Ted Hughes (who died in 1998) was Britain’s poet ... Read More »

September 28, 2009 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ You’re Mean, Lily Jean

By Frieda Wishinsky; Kady MacDonald Denton, illus.

New neighbour Lily Jean enters the lives of sisters Carly and Sandy in perfectly obnoxious form. With a smug smile that stretches from ear to ear, she is a mini-Cleopatra sprawled out on her throne ... Read More »

September 25, 2009 | Filed under: Picture Books

Out of this World: The Amazing Search for an Alien Earth

By Jacob Berkowitz

Out of this World presents detailed information on space exploration and the hunt for alien civilizations in an easy-to-read, magazine-style layout serving up info in readily digestible bites. The engaging content mixes articles and activities ... Read More »

September 25, 2009 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Leftovers

By Heather Waldorf

In Torontonian Heather Waldorf’s newest novel, 15-year-old Sarah Greene has been “sentenced” to spend the summer working at Camp Dog Gone Fun, a kind of shelter that cares for rescued dogs. Her crime – stealing ... Read More »

September 25, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

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

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