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Out on a Limb

By Gail Banning

Twelve-year-old Rosie McGrady and her family are being kicked out of their apartment by developers and facing homelessness when they discover that they’ve inherited an enormous treehouse built by Rosie’s long-estranged great-great-grandfather on his estate. ... Read More »

June 25, 2008

Skin Room

By Sara Tilley

Sara Tilley’s debut novel is many of the things its catalogue bumph claims – unflinching, sharply realized, as evocative as poetry. Or at least half of the novel is, anyway. Tilley relates – with a ... Read More »

June 25, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Mountain Girl, River Girl

By Ting-Xing Ye

In Mountain Girl, River Girl, writer Ting-xing Ye (author of A Leaf in the Bitter Wind) explores the harsh realities of life in contemporary China. Focusing on the fast friendship between Pan-pan and Shui-lian – ... Read More »

June 25, 2008

Freefall

By Wendy A. Lewis

Told alternately in the voices of 17-year-old Airin Grace Marks (a namesake of the title character in Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace) and 19-year-old Ry Truman, Freefall deals with tough issues in a compelling and sensitive ... Read More »

June 25, 2008

Dead in the Water

By Robin Stevenson

Short, speedy, and sportive, this formula mystery/action story takes readers to the northeast end of Vancouver Island by yacht. Simon has signed up for a week-long sailing course aboard 36-foot Jeopardy with fellow teens Olivia, ... Read More »

June 25, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Quintet

By Douglas Arthur Brown

Douglas Arthur Brown’s Quintet is deceptively simple. In form, it’s a journal passed through the hands of three men: Cameron, Rory, and Adrian Hines. The three men are identical triplets who realize while attending their ... Read More »

June 25, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels