Out of Focus

In this teen issue novel set in Winnipeg and northwestern Ontario, Buffie tells the story of 16-year-old Bernice Dodd, whose alcoholic mother, Celia, has put her in a caretaking role she resents. Celia’s unreliability has ... Read More »

September 13, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Megiddo’s Shadow

By Arthur Slade

Devastated by the death of his older brother in France in September 1917, 16-year-old Edward Bathe defies his father by joining Saskatchewan’s Bull Moose Boys to fight “the Huns.” Edward wants to ensure that his ... Read More »

September 13, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

I Am a Taxi

By Deborah Ellis

I Am a Taxi’s 12-year-old protagonist, Diego, lives with his baby sister and mother in a tiny cell in Bolivia’s San Sebastian Women’s Prison; his father is incarcerated in the men’s prison across town because ... Read More »

September 13, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Christmas Eve Magic

By Lucie Papineau; Stéphane Poulin, illus.

It’s hard to be a Scrooge about a new Christmas book for children, but this collaboration between veteran children’s writer Lucie Papineau and two-time Governor General’s Award-winning illustrator Stéphane Poulin seems to miss its mark. ... Read More »

September 13, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

The Huron Carol

By Jean de Brebeuf; Jesse Edgar Middleton, trans.; Ian Wallace, illus.

The Huron Carol’s English lyrics by Jesse Edgar Middleton are an early 20th-century adaptation of a Huron hymn written circa 1641 by Father Jean de Brébeuf, a Jesuit missionary who lived with the Wendat (Huron) ... Read More »

September 13, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

★ What Are You Doing, Sam?

By Marie-Louise Gay

Rarely does a children’s book suit its intended audience perfectly. The vocabulary may aim too high or low, or adult preoccupations may creep into what is supposed to be a child’s sphere of thought. But ... Read More »

September 13, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

★ “I Did It Because…”: How a Poem Happens

By Loris Lesynski; Michael Martchenko, illus.

It’s one of those certainties like death or taxes: after an author reading, someone in the audience will invariably ask, “Where do you get your ideas?” Without saying where, exactly, children’s poet Loris Lesynski ponders ... Read More »

September 13, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

Walking After Midnight: A Journey Through Murder, Justice and Forgiveness

By Katy Hutchison

It was an unthinkable tragedy that made national headlines. Partway through the evening of December 31, 1997, Bob McIntosh left his wife Katy, his two children, and their friends to check on a teen house ... Read More »

September 11, 2006 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Fighter

By Craig Davidson

Craig Davidson’s previous book, Rust and Bone, was an aversive, acerbic, often bitterly funny collection of stories that explored the extent to which desperate men will go to find some semblance of meaning in their ... Read More »

September 5, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Abode of Love: Growing Up in a Messianic Cult

By Kate Barlow

Kate Barlow’s memoir is as full of secrets as Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code, yet as cozy as an Enid Blyton story. Told largely from the point of view of Barlow as a bright ... Read More »

August 21, 2006 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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