Conquering Fear
byGrandes Roues et petits Pois will be a starting point for discussions about fear, courage, determination and pride.
Fiction
Connecting With Place and Time
byIn Summer in the Land of Anne, six-year-old Elspeth knows that she herself is really Anne of Green Gables and these places they visit on Prince Edward Island feel like they are her real, true home
Girl Learns of Nazi Occupation Through Belgian Journal
byThrough the diary entries that Grace reads, the author is able to give readers a glimpse of what life was like in Belgium during the dark days of Nazi occupation
The Toll of Depression
byWendy Ranby’s Under the Floorboard realistically depicts the devastatin impact of the postpartum “baby blues”
Paul Carlucci’s Layered Stories of Life in a Northern Town
byIn The High-Rise in Fort Fierce, Carlucci’s characters are complex and his strength is that he captures how people can be capable of both love and unforgivable brutality
Trudi Johnson’s Family Secrets and Questions of Identity
byElizabeth Johnston reviews Trudi Johnson’s All Good Intentions: “The issue of identity—how we create a sense of it for ourselves in the present and how much of it is determined by those who have come before us—is one we all grapple with”
Making the Breakup Experience More Positive–Or Less Devastating Anyway
byLisa Doucet reviews Goodbye Girls by Lisa Harrington (Nimbus Publishing)