Quill and Quire

BOOK REVIEWS

By Margaret Buffie

Margaret Buffie plunges us deep into her heroine’s first full-fledged crippling panic attack. Fifteen-year-old Addy Jarrick has just moved to Winnipeg with her mom and is suddenly incapable of returning to school. She absolutely cannot ... Read More »

February 20, 2004

By Bernice Thurman Hunter

Janey’s Choice continues the story of the Phair family begun in Amy’s Promise, which recently won the B.C. library association’s Red Cedar Award. In this new book, the point of view shifts to Janey Phair, ... Read More »

February 20, 2004

By Perry Nodelman

Winnipeg author Perry Nodelman’s third comic young adult novel is a satire dealing with the absurdities of modern high-school life.Brad Gold is an average Grade 11 kid, desperately trying not to attract attention to himself ... Read More »

February 20, 2004

By Gayle Friesen

“This is a bad idea,” says Jane Harrison as she arrives in British Columbia to visit her mother. Janey had left the family farm in anger 16 years earlier, at 18, after becoming pregnant with ... Read More »

February 20, 2004

By Diana Wieler

Eighteen-year-old Jens Friesen has plenty of drive. A football star and fundraising dynamo, he’s taken his prowess to work at a car lot where he plans to make a fortune and send it home to ... Read More »

February 20, 2004