A quilt can be a family album, each scrap of material in the patchwork pattern commemorating rites of passage and memorable moments. In Irish Chain, Barbara Haworth-Attard’s latest historical YA novel – as in her ... Read More »
January 12, 2004
Emma Sweeney, a 16-year-old Watcher who doesn’t know who she really is, was not supposed to have bonded so deeply with her Earth family. But as she watches her adopted mother die, Emma vows to ... Read More »
January 12, 2004
For many years, Nova Scotia writer Budge Wilson’s short story collection The Leaving has been my standard gift for two groups, thoughtful teenagers and visitors to Canada. With no stylistic fireworks, Wilson deftly captures the ... Read More »
January 12, 2004
Family, friendship, compassion, and a very large snake are the entwined themes in Eric Walters’ new novel. Protagonist Ricky (later revealed as the young Eric Walters) is most comfortable among his 29 pets, and thrives ... Read More »
January 12, 2004
Some aspects of The Maze – girl gangs, ostracism, swarmings – recall the horrible fatal attack on 14-year-old Reena Virk five years ago in Victoria. Monica Hughes combines a perceptive grasp of the dynamics of ... Read More »
January 12, 2004
Since the death three years earlier of his father, a world-famous anthropologist, 17-year-old Percy Montmount Jr. believes he’s truly able to see the world through his father’s eyes. As a quasi-omniscient observer studying the ritualistic ... Read More »
January 12, 2004
Although this book’s photos were taken in cities, preschoolers from communities of all sizes will recognize and relate to the objects and concepts portrayed. Thirty colourful camera shots illustrate the way we use letters, symbols, ... Read More »
January 12, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
How would an alligator go about sitting in an easy chair? Toronto artist Wallace Edwards props his alligator’s chin on a well-cushioned footstool, while its tail drapes down over the chairback and its front legs ... Read More »
January 12, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
In her first collection of poetry, On Every Stone, Rachel Vigier explores the meaning of disappearance as she reflects on the life and loss of her sister, Micheline, who disappeared October 9, 1988. But the ... Read More »
January 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry
I must come clean here. Canadian history often puts me to sleep, a fact that may or may not make me the ideal reader for Fights of Our Lives. However, John Duffy’s account of the ... Read More »
January 12, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
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