Jordan Bellemare is a recipe for disaster: a 13-year-old boy at a new high school in a new town, with no father on the scene, no friends, and a gang of cool guys who hold ... Read More »
January 21, 2004
I detest faeries. They dress funny, have difficult names, and are usually cloyingly impish. Not surprisingly, I try to avoid books – usually long, involved Celtic epics – in which faeries might play a part. ... Read More »
January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction
George Johnson’s War is an accomplished work of historical “faction.” Garvie and Beaty have done much research on the fascinating Johnson family, real-life central players in the drama of the American War of Independence. The ... Read More »
January 21, 2004
Marjory Miller, Berta’s nine-year-old owner, admits that Berta appears to be interested in only two things: eating and sleeping. To Marjory, the docile canine seems entirely unremarkable. Then, one spring day, Berta begins to behave ... Read More »
January 21, 2004
Firewing is a first-rate sequel to Ken Oppel’s earlier award-winning novels, Silverwing and Sunwing. With a spring-tight plot, it propels the reader through exciting, chilling, and deliciously satisfying adventure. Oppel has created a new cast ... Read More »
January 21, 2004
Books representing an Islamic perspective garner a lot of interest these days, and Aziz the Storyteller draws on that interest in both its subject matter and its presentation. Though it’s an original story, this first ... Read More »
January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
Jessica’s X-Ray provides a look at health care from the perspective of a child. After falling from a tree, young Jessica is taken to the hospital where a doctor orders an x-ray of her arm. ... Read More »
January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
Since her first print appearance in 1697, in Charles Perrault’s Mother Goose’s Tales, Cinderella has maintained a dizzily high profile. Featured more frequently than any other fairy-tale character, the char maiden turned princess has represented ... Read More »
January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
Three young princesses live a luxurious life in their palace by the sea, but they are b-o-r-e-d. One day they see three servant girls walking by with buckets of milk, and decide that “servants have ... Read More »
January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
The children in Paul Yee’s award-winning books are haunted by their pasts. Often forced by circumstances to emigrate from their beloved China, they feel “caught between two worlds” like Yee, a third-generation Chinese Canadian who ... Read More »
January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
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