Johnny Kellock Died Today

Bored during a long hot summer, Rosalie Norman turns for amusement to art. Reading and creating comics and drawing portraits from the family photo album, the 12-year-old is so consumed by her creations that she ... Read More »

April 5, 2006

Constellations: A Glow-in-the-Dark Guide to the Night Sky

By Chris Sasaki; Alan Flinn, illus.

Constellations has a number of unique features that will hook readers young and old. The endpapers display a sky map of the major constellations in our galaxy, which serves as both a table of contents ... Read More »

April 5, 2006

Squirt: The Most Interesting Book You’ll Ever Read About Blood

By Trudee Romanek; Rose Cowles, illus.

Author Trudee Romanek of Barrie, Ontario, integrates both kid-friendly gross facts and good, solid information in this new book – another in the Mysterious You series – that’s a fascinating look at a subject that ... Read More »

April 5, 2006

Travels with My Family

By Marie-Louise Gay and David Homel; Marie-Louise Gay, illus.

Children who love to read are blessed by doubly adventurous lives. Not only do they experience their fiction with an intensity equal to or surpassing that of real life, but they tend to shape their ... Read More »

April 5, 2006

We All Fall Down

By Eric Walters

Will Fuller is a typical American teenager. He’s a decent student who dreams of starting a band, has a crush on a girl in his history class, and doesn't see much of his dad, a ... Read More »

April 5, 2006

The Kids Book of Great Canadian Women

By Elizabeth MacLeod; John Mantha, illus.

The Kids Book of Great Canadian Women features thumbnail biographies of over 130 women who have, at some point, called this country home. Including politicians, scientists, and artists, the collection covers a wide range of ... Read More »

April 5, 2006

My Kind of Sad: What It’s Like to Be Young and Depressed

By Kate Scowen; Jeff Szuc, illus.

Toronto youth worker Kate Scowen has written a primer about depression and associated mental health issues for teens. This book doesn’t need to be read in any particular order, and a depressed adolescent – who ... Read More »

April 5, 2006

My Childhood Under Fire: A Sarajevo Diary

By Nadja Halilbegovich

My Childhood Under Fire: A Sarajevo Diary chronicles three years in a young Bosnian girl’s life during the war in the former Yugoslavia. Nadja Halilbegovich, now a writer, singer, and poet living in Toronto, was ... Read More »

April 5, 2006

Trash Action: A Fresh Look at Garbage

By Ann Love and Jane Drake; Mark Thurman, illus.

Trash Action is more than a “fresh look at garbage.” It’s also a fresh attempt to inspire children to care about our world’s garbage challenges and convince them of their individual and collective abilities to ... Read More »

April 5, 2006

The Matchless Six: The Story of Canada’s First Women’s Olympic Team

By Ron Hotchkiss

In Amsterdam in 1928, women competed for the first time in Olympic track and field events. At the time, many Olympic Committee members felt that track and field competition was too strenuous for females. Others ... Read More »

April 5, 2006

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