Dear Diary, I’m Pregnant

For many teenage women, finding out that they are pregnant is extremely isolating and devastating. Many feel they can’t tell their parents. They may have already broken up with the baby’s father. Girlfriends may not ... Read More »

February 25, 2004

Cowboy on the Steppes

By Song Nan Zhang

At the height of the Cultural Revolution in 1968, author-illustrator Song Nan Zhang’s brother Yi Nan was sent to the Mongolian border to live in a yurt with a nomadic family. Cowboy on the Steppes, ... Read More »

February 25, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Long Road

By Luis Garay

This is a book one wants to like, for it must have considerable personal meaning for author/illustrator Luis Garay. His second picture book, it’s a story of bravery, of surviving tragedy and remaking a life. ... Read More »

February 25, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Messenger of Spring

By C. J. Taylor

The Messenger of Spring is Mohawk artist and author C. J. Taylor’s retelling of a Chippewa/ Ojibway allegory of the seasons. Iceman, the incarnation of winter, is already feeling diminished when New Dawn arrives at ... Read More »

February 25, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ The Party

By Barbara Reid

Barbara Reid’s amazing ways with Plasticine are familiar to readers from her imaginative illustrations for a number of books such as Have You Seen Birds? and The New Baby Calf, but in this new book ... Read More »

February 25, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

The Body in the Basement

By Norah McClintock

When the body of her mother, who disappeared five years earlier, is unearthed during the demolition of a restaurant formerly owned by her parents, 15-year-old Tasha Scanlan sets out to prove to the police – ... Read More »

February 25, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

A Farley Mowat Reader

By Farley Mowat, Richard Row, illus. Wendy Thomas, ed.

With 14 million copies of his 30 books sold in 52 languages, Farley Mowat’s name is established internationally among adults. These excerpts from eight of his autobiographical books should go a long way toward interesting ... Read More »

February 25, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Sharla

By Budge Wilson

The designation “young adult literature” is a confusing label to everyone concerned. More than one writer, having written about adolescence, is surprised to learn at the publisher’s gate that he or she is a young ... Read More »

February 25, 2004

The Torn Skirt

By Rebecca Godfrey

Rebecca Godfrey’s debut novel relates a pivotal few days in the life of 16-year-old Sara Shaw. Raised by her gentle hippie father, she is a quiet teenager who loves “the safety of bank balances, the ... Read More »

February 25, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire

By Gordon Korman, JoAnn Adinolfi, illus.

This niftily packaged little chapter book recounts the ordeals of Zoe Bent, a third-grader with a self-esteem problem. School last year was like a big, happy party, she recalls wistfully: “A baboon could feel special ... Read More »

February 25, 2004

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