As the title suggests, Hamish X and the Cheese Pirates of the Arctic is a very silly book. This is not a bad thing – witness the inspired silliness of Lemony Snicket and Monty Python ... Read More »
April 5, 2006
With her last two books, Walking with the Dead and The Mysterious Mummer, Toronto writer and former teacher L.M. Falcone drew on her experience writing for the pre-teen television series Are You Afraid of the ... Read More »
April 5, 2006 | Filed under: Book news
It’s admirable and delightful that John Wilson engages the deeds of a British Columbian people’s hero and socialist in this novel of historical fiction. Set in July 1918, the story focuses on a week in ... Read More »
April 5, 2006
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 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
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
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
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 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
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
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