The Carved Box

With his father’s death, 15-year-old Callum Murdoch is uprooted from his Edinburgh life, where he dreams of being a teacher, and forced to immigrate to the New World to join his Uncle Rory and family. ... Read More »

March 12, 2004 | Filed under: Book news

The Wreckers

By Iain Lawrence

A strong first novel from B.C. journalist and travel writer Iain Lawrence, The Wreckers is immediately gripping, from its opening scene of a shipwreck. John, the 14-year-old narrator, survives the waves only to face another ... Read More »

March 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Juliana and the Medicine Fish

By Jake MacDonald

The art of fishing, the thrill of suspense, and the sadness of broken families: these are the main ingredients in Canadian writer Jake MacDonald’s latest novel, his first for young adults. Add to the mix, ... Read More »

March 12, 2004

The Dark Tower

By Sharon Stewart

Everyone has heard of Marie Antoinette, the ill-fated French queen who was beheaded during the Revolution. But few know of her daughter, Marie Thérèse, the only member of her family to survive the bloodshed and ... Read More »

March 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

A Light in the Dunes

By Martha Attema

Martha Attema takes pains not to bore: her fast-paced mystery, set in an island community off The Netherlands’ north shore, features a body, three ominous strangers, a ghost sighting, a rowdy festival and costume ball, ... Read More »

March 12, 2004

Raven’s End: A Tale of the Canadian Rockies

By Ben Gadd

From the first sentence of Raven’s End it is clear we are in Dreamworld. Subtitled A Tale of the Canadian Rockies, Ben Gadd’s first novel is a long and fanciful flight from his previous non-fiction ... Read More »

March 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Curse of Jonathan Matthew

By John F. Green

Long ago, in England, the villagers whispered.... They whispered about the hacked-up body of young Jonathan Matthew, about its disappearance from the church altar, and about a mysterious connection to royalty. But mainly they whispered ... Read More »

March 12, 2004

Last Summer in Louisbourg

By Claire Mowat

After winning an essay contest about Canadian history, Andrea Baxter is bound for Cape Breton and a summer job at the Fortress of Louisbourg. Staff at this historic site re-enact life as it was lived ... Read More »

March 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Buried City of Pompeii

By Shelley Tanaka, Greg Ruhl, illus.

This is the third in the I Was There series of richly illustrated historical books. It follows Discovering the Iceman and On Board the Titanic and stakes out a definite niche for author Shelley Tanaka. Between ... Read More »

March 12, 2004

Promise Song

By Linda Holeman

For more than 50 years, from 1868 to 1925, various schemes emptied the orphanages of Britain to provide the farms of Canada with cheap hired help. Many of these schemes, most notably those of Dr. ... Read More »

March 12, 2004

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