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Making Masks

By Renée Schwarz

Author, illustrator, and toy designer Renee Schwarz unmasks a new addition to the Kids Can Press series of craft books. Making Masks provides step-by-step instructions for 13 intriguing craft projects ideal for Halloween, drama class, ... Read More »

January 14, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Losing Forever

By Gayle Friesen

Fifteen-year-old Jes is having one heck of a summer. Her mother is consumed by plans for her upcoming second marriage; her best girlfriend is totally engrossed with a hunky new boyfriend; and her best buddy ... Read More »

January 14, 2004

Angelique: Buffalo Hunt

By Cora Taylor

Buffalo Hunt is one of two new titles in Penguin’s successful Our Canadian Girl historical fiction series. (Budge Wilson’s Izzie: The Christmas That Almost Wasn’t, set in Second World War Halifax, is the other.)The novel ... Read More »

January 14, 2004

Son of the Mob

By Gordon Korman

Gordon Korman’s new YA novel, Son of the Mob, is a comically winning combination of The Sopranos and Romeo and Juliet. Except for the fact that his father is a Mafia don, Vince Luca is ... Read More »

January 14, 2004 | Filed under: Book news

Excessive Love Prostheses

By Margaret Christakos

Margaret Christakos quotes fellow poet Lola Lemire Tostevin in the prologue to Excessive Love Prostheses: “the amputated/truncated text/follows an imaginary line/and grows/extravagant.” Reading the poems that follow, I would have to place the word “sometimes” ... Read More »

January 14, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry