Subscribe via RSS 2.0by Wendy Warkentin - Wednesday Oct 01 2008 3:47 pm permalink Post a comment
Posted in: Reviews, buzz, Winnipeg, Graphic Novels
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.
by Wendy Warkentin - Monday Aug 18 2008 2:40 pm permalink Post a comment
Posted in: Reviews, Staff Pick, New Releases
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.
by Wendy Warkentin - Monday Aug 18 2008 3:19 pm permalink Post a comment
Posted in: Reviews
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....
by Wendy Warkentin - Monday Aug 18 2008 3:15 pm permalink Post a comment
Posted in: Reviews
Ever thrown a rotten tomato at someone? Want to? This slim unassuming novel is ripe for the picking.
by Wendy Warkentin - Monday Aug 18 2008 3:09 pm permalink Post a comment
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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.
by Wendy Warkentin - Monday Aug 18 2008 3:22 pm permalink Post a comment
Posted in: Reviews
When a break-in at Ricky's school kills a beloved classroom pet, a boa constrictor named Bogart, he and his best friend Augie must find a way to help their devastated science teacher and ease their own grief with an altruistic endeavor.
by Wendy Warkentin - Monday Aug 18 2008 3:03 pm permalink Post a comment
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It's been seven years since I saw those passenger planes crash into the World Trade Center in New York on my television set. September 11 2001 is a day many people will never understand or forget.
We All Fall Down puts the reader on the 85th floor with fifteen-year-old Will and his father at the moment the planes hit.
by Wendy Warkentin - Monday Aug 18 2008 3:25 pm permalink Post a comment
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Trouble and unfocused, fourteen-year-old Winston Macdonald Jr. is running away from something, but isn't sure exactly what. Suspended from school, Winston spends time with his father, a reporter who is covering a story about a young man who is running across the country in support of cancer research--a young man named Terry Fox.
by Wendy Warkentin - Monday Aug 18 2008 12:18 pm permalink Post a comment
Posted in: Interview, Authors
In September , the Canadian author of over 50 novels for children and young adults, will be in Winnipeg to receive the 2008 MYRCA - Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award for his powerful novel, We All Fall Down.
by Wendy Warkentin - Wednesday Aug 06 2008 6:51 pm permalink Post a comment
Posted in: Reviews, Staff Pick, SciFi & Fantasy, New Releases, Graphic Novels
Imagine this new graphic novel adaptation of Neil Gaiman's Coraline to be your own private movie; no one will be around to shush you when you shriek unexpectedly.
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