The Second Tree: Of Clones, Chimeras, and Quests for Immortality

Newspapers try to track the latest developments from the seemingly fantastic world of genetic science: cloned sheep, genetically modified food, in vitro fertilization (IVF), stem cell research. It’s a brave new world. Biologists are in ... Read More »

October 18, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

A Lover’s Quarrel

By Carmine Starnino

Montreal poet, editor, and critic Carmine Starnino is a lonely brave voice in a milquetoast milieu. To readers panting in a critical desert of “joylessness and phrasal drabness” he offers “ebullience, ardency and verve.” He ... Read More »

October 18, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Criticism & Essays

Going Wild: Amazing Animal Adventures Around the World

By Brian Keating

The title of this book is a bit misleading: the stories of globetrotting and animal observing collected here aren’t so much amazing animal adventures as they are very interesting Brian Keating adventures. (As for Going ... Read More »

October 13, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Slangalicious

By Gillian O'Reilly, Krista Johnson, illus.

Why do people call TV the “boob tube‚” or use the word “dough” for money? Why do we say we “loaf around” when we’re doing nothing? Why is something easily accomplished a “cakewalk”? All these ... Read More »

October 13, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

In Your Face: The Culture of Beauty and You

By Shari Graydon

At the end of the 18th century, British parliamentarians proposed a law that would prevent women from “trapping” men with artificial means, such as makeup. This bill seems laughable now, and yet according to this ... Read More »

October 13, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

The Tunnel King

By Barbara Hehner

In 1944, 76 Allied POW airmen escaped their prison camp through a secret tunnel. Although 50 of these men were later executed by the Nazis, their heroic efforts to disrupt German forces became legendary, entering ... Read More »

October 13, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Peace Walker: The Legend of Hiawatha and Tekanawita

By C.J. Taylor

This attractive book by Mohawk author-illustrator C.J. Taylor is a departure from her popular picture books about native legends. An account of real people and events, Peace Walker is a chapter book about a highly ... Read More »

October 13, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Bucking the Sarge

By Christopher Paul Curtis

Take the following genres: heist movies with a cool, clever, stylish hero; Captain Underpants stories with their preoccupation with poop; Michael Moore’s documentaries with their barely disguised anger at injustice; and wholesome middle-school novels in ... Read More »

October 13, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Still There, Clare

By Yvonne Prinz

Clare makes a momentous decision: time to grow up and say goodbye to Elsa, her dearest soulmate. Clare’s mother thinks Elsa has been out of Clare’s life since Grade 1, but Elsa is still around, ... Read More »

October 13, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Mercury Man

By Tom Henigan

Tom Blake, a teen plagued by loneliness and self-doubt, is a Peter Parker (AKA Spiderman) type who discovers his inner superhero in Ottawa author Tom Henighan’s second YA novel Mercury Man. Henighan’s sci-fi fantasy is ... Read More »

October 13, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

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