Join McNally Robinson Booksellers for the 2008 Manitoba Comic Convention at the Winnipeg Convention Centre October 11 & 12, 2008. We'll have tons of young adult fantasy books and graphic novels at the convention, but here are a few favourites on our shelves right now.
Categories: Reviews, buzz, Winnipeg, Graphic Novels
How important is your cell phone, your new Gucci handbag, your Versace sunglasses? What about education, a place that is safe to sleep or fresh uncontaminated drinking water? Instead of serving a juvenile detention sentence, spoiled rotten Alexandria Hyatt, just shy of her sweet sixteen, is sent to Kenya, Africa to help change the world by first changing herself.
Categories: Reviews, Staff Pick, New Releases
On October 15, 1954 it starts to rain and as darkness falls that evening in Weston, Ontario, rivers begin to swell their banks and roads disappear as they are swallowed by water. Eighth grader Lizzie Hardy finds herself and her babysitting charges David and little Suzie in the middle of an escalating situation that calls for bravery, resourceful thinking and cooperation....
Categories: Reviews
Ever thrown a rotten tomato at someone? Want to? This slim unassuming novel is ripe for the picking.
Categories: Reviews
Jayson Hunter is a fifteen-year-old underage drinker and self-proclaimed loser, the son of a recovering alcoholic single parent mother and the great grandson of a Niagara Falls barrel jumper. Stumbling home black-out drunk one night and learning about his family history in the next few sobering days, Jayson realizes there may be something for him in his tourist trap home-town of Niagara Falls.
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