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Julie

By Cora Taylor

Librarians and booksellers are often asked these days for books that are “just like the Goosebumps” series. Parents tend to want something more challenging and literary for their kids, but kids want something equally frightening ... Read More »

March 19, 2004

The Unseen: Scary Stories

By Janet Lunn, ed.

Librarians and booksellers are often asked these days for books that are “just like the Goosebumps” series. Parents tend to want something more challenging and literary for their kids, but kids want something equally frightening ... Read More »

March 19, 2004

Hiccup Champion of the World

By Ken Roberts

Librarians and booksellers are often asked these days for books that are “just like the Goosebumps” series. Parents tend to want something more challenging and literary for their kids, but kids want something equally frightening ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Book news

My Mother’s Ghost

By Margaret Buffie

Librarians and booksellers are often asked these days for books that are “just like the Goosebumps” series. Parents tend to want something more challenging and literary for their kids, but kids want something equally frightening ... Read More »

March 19, 2004

Losing It

By Alan Cumyn

Bob Sterling is the Edgar Allen Poe specialist at a Canadian university. He dumped his first wife for front-row student Julia, and now that marriage, too, is adrift because Bob lusts for yet another student, ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Mad Dog

By Kelly Watt

The plot of Mad Dog, Kelly Watt’s first novel, seems designed to be a quick pitch: it is 1964, and 14-year-old Sheryl-Anne is living with her uncle Fergus on his apple orchard, deep in the ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

River Thieves

By Michael Crummey

The scene is Newfoundland’s desolate north shore about 200 years ago. European settlement is well under way and the Beothuk have entered into their twilight on this Earth. In an isolated outpost household, a domestic ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels