Monday, 11 March 2013

A Stranger at Home

by Christy Jordan-Fenton and Margaret Pokiak-Fenton
Illustrated by Liz Amini-Holmes
Annick Press
120 pp.
Ages 8-13
2011

A powerful read for social justice, depicted another sad consequence of the residential school experience of our Aboriginal people.



A Stranger at Home Video Book Trailer

Uploaded by bookshorts on November 9, 2011 to YouTube.

Plain Kate

by Erin Bow
Arthur E. Levine/Scholastic
314 pp.
Ages 12-15
2010

Winner of the 2011 TD Canadian Children's Literature Award.





Plain Kate by Erin Bow
Uploaded by ExpandedBooks on September 23, 2010 to YouTube

Saturday, 16 February 2013

The Rising (Darkness Rising Trilogy, Book 3)

by Kelley Armstrong
Doubleday Canada
978-0385668576
416 pp.
Ages 12+
Release date April, 2013

The final volume of Kelley Armstrong's paranormal series Darkness Rising is set for release on April 9, 2013.  The first two books in the series are The Gathering (Doubleday Canada, 2011), reviewed here, and The Calling (Doubleday Canada, 2012) which I reviewed here.


The Rising by Kelley Armstrong: Book Trailer
Uploaded on February 14, 2013 by harperteen to YouTube.