Many of Newton Starker's ancestors, including his mother, have been killed by lightning strikes, so when he enrolls at the eccentric Jerry Potts Academy of Higher Learning and Survival in Moose...
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Author: Slade, Arthur G.Summary:Genre: Young adult fiction, Canadian fiction -
Author: Shakespeare, WilliamSummary:
One of the great Shakespearean tragedies, Macbeth is a dark and bloody drama of ambition, murder, guilt and revenge. Prompted by the prophecies of three mysterious witches and goaded by his...
Genre: Drama -
Author: Richardson, Jael EaleySummary:Describes the childhood of Chuck Ealey, who dreamed of becoming a football quarterback despite the prejudices he faced as an African American.
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Author: Singer, MarilynSummary:Presents a tribute to timeless childhood summer activities, from playing hide-and-seek and hopscotch to making mud soup and imagining that a stick is a magic wand.
Genre: Juvenile poetry -
Author: MacKay, EllySummary:A young girl discovers a vacant park next door to her new house that is intended for butterflies, but when she has trouble getting butterflies to stay there, her new neighbors help her plant...
Genre: Picture books, Juvenile fiction -
Author: Thornton, RussellSummary:In The Hundred Lives Russell Thornton illuminates the intricate imaginative orders of love at work within an individual life.
Genre: Poetry, Canadian poetry -
Author: Lundy, RandySummary:
An exquisite series of meditations on memory, evanescence and the land. Randy Lundy draws deeply from his Cree heritage and equally from European and Asian traditions. Readers will be reminded by...
Genre: Canadian poetry, Indigenous materials -
Author: Margoshes, DaveSummary:
Family, death, love, longing, retrospection: these are all of the themes Dave Margoshes touches on in his new poetry collection, and first in almost a decade. With careful attention to detail, and...
Genre: Canadian poetry -
Author: Joseph, EveSummary:WINNER, 2019 GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE
The poems in this collection reach for something other than truth, the marvelous. Leaves fall out of coat sleeves, Gandhi swims in Burrard Inlet. The poems...
Genre: Canadian poetry -
Author: Brousseau, SimonSummary:Synapses depicts a vast society of differing psyches, all unique, idiosyncratic, and interconnected. Simon Brousseau's beautifully crafted literary snapshots, each written in a single,...
Genre: Canadian fiction, General fiction