Showing posts with label abuse. Show all posts
Showing posts with label abuse. Show all posts
September 11, 2024

The Outsmarters

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Written by Deborah Ellis Groundwood Books 978-1-77306-857-2 248 pp. Ages 9–13 August 2024   We refuse to outmean them and we can never outsp...
March 26, 2022

A Soft Place to Fall

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Written by Tanya Christenson Red Deer Press 978-0-889956384 409 pp. Ages 12+ January 2022   Out of suffering have emerged the strongest soul...
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February 23, 2022

The Chandler Legacies

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Written by Abdi Nazemian Balzer & Bray (HarperCollins) 978-1-06-303932-2 336 pp. Ages 13+ February 2022   Through the voices of fourth-f...
July 20, 2021

Sully, Messed Up: Q & A with author Stephanie Simpson McLellan

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Yesterday I reviewed Stephanie Simpson McLellan 's new middle grade/young adult novel Sully, Messed Up from Red Deer Press. This story ...
July 19, 2021

Sully, Messed Up

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Written by Stephanie Simpson McLellan Red Deer Press 978-0-88995-637-7 312 pp. Ages 11-15 April 2021 Who is Sullivan Brewster? He's Sull...
May 25, 2021

Sugar Falls: A Residential School Story (10th Anniversary Edition)

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Written by David A. Robertson Illustrated by Scott B. Henderson Colours by Donovan Yaciuk HighWater Press 978-1-55379-975-7 48 pp. Ages 14-1...
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April 13, 2021

The Life and Deaths of Frankie D.

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Written by Colleen Nelson Dundurn Press 978-1-459747586 256 pp. Ages 12+ April 2021   Who is Frankie D.? Before the girl with the skin that ...
December 09, 2019

My Story Starts Here: Voices of Young Offenders

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Written by Deborah Ellis Groundwood Books 978-1-77306-121-4 224 pp. Ages 13+ October 2019 Reviewed from advance reading copy ...
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March 18, 2019

The Moon Watched It All

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Written by Shelley A. Leedahl Illustrated by Aino Anto Red Deer Press 978-0-88995-537-0 32 pp. Ages 5-9 February 2019 The m...
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December 28, 2018

Sadie

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Written by Courtney Summers Wednesday Books 978-1-250-10571-4 308 pp. Ages 14+ September 2018 If you notice that the book cov...
August 01, 2018

Fifteen Point Nine

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Written by Holly Dobbie DCB 978-1-77086-523-5 240 pp. Ages 13+ June 2018 The bullying that fifteen-year-old Agatha Murphy and ot...
July 26, 2018

A Girl Like That

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Written by Tanaz Bhathena Farrar Straus Giroux 978-0-374-30544-4 369 pp. Ages 13-18 February 2018 Zarin Wadia, sixteen, is A...
July 19, 2018

The Whirlpool

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Written by Laurel Croza Illustrated by Kelsey Garrity-Riley Groundwood Books 978-1-77306-032-3 96 pp. Ages 10-14 May 2018 D...
June 22, 2016

Beware That Girl

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by Teresa Toten Delacorte Press 978-0-553-50790-4 336 pp. Ages 14+ May 2016 Kate and Olivia.  Two eighteen-year-old seniors...
May 05, 2015

Forever Julia

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by Jodi Carmichael Great Plains Teen Fiction 978-1-927855-20-1 262 pp. Ages 14+ April, 2015 Julia Collins must feel like she's...
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February 22, 2015

Switch

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by Douglas Davey Red Deer Press 978-0-88995-524-0 252 pp. Ages 15+ 2014 Back in 1988, when Sheldon Bates was seventeen, a conf...