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Black Fox of Lorne by Marguerite De Angeli
Black Fox of Lorne tells the story of twin boys, Jan and Brus who travel from their home in Norway to start a new life in England and their adventures after they are shipwrecked.Jan and Brus are...
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A Boy Called Slow by Joseph Bruchac
Joseph Bruchac's A Boy Called Slow tells the story of how the legendary Lakota warrior, Sitting Bull came to be named.A baby boy was born in the winter of 1831 to the family of Lakota warrior named...
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The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom
The Hiding Place is a moving account of a Dutch family's work in the underground to save Jews during the Holocaust. It is considered a classic in Christian literature today.Cornelia Ten Boom was the...
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What Makes A Van Gogh A Van Gogh by Robert Muhlberger
The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Series of What Makes A.... A...." introduces young readers to a series of famous artists. For this post I will review one of the books in this series, What Makes A Van...
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Vision Saints Series Part 1
The Vision book series is a series of short biographies of Catholic saints and holy men and women. They were written for children, aged nine to twelve, and published in the 1950's. Because each book is...
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Magnolia Sword by Sherry Thomas
Hua Mulan lives in a small town in the north with her father, her little brother Murong, their servant Auntie Xia and her thirty-year-old son Dabao. They used to live in the south, in a house on Lake...
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The Light In Hidden Places by Sharon Cameron
The Light In Hidden Places is a fictionalized account of the real-life story of Stefania Podgorska, a Polish-Catholic who risked her life to save her Jewish friends and neighbours during World War...
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Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff
Centurion Marcus Flavius Aquila, the cohort commander leads his men, the Fourth Gaulish Auxiliaries of the Second Legion from Isca Silurium to Isca Dumnoniorum where they will relieve the current...
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Transmission by Morgan Rice
Transmission is the first book in the Invasion Chronicles by well-known fantasy and sci fi author Morgan Rice. In this novel, a terminally ill boy believes he is receiving transmissions from aliens and...
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Fingal's Quest by Madeleine A. Polland
Fingal's Quest, set in 6th century Ireland and France, tells the story of a poor boy's quest to follow a monk, Columban, whom he is inexplicably drawn to. When Columban leaves for Gaul, Fingal follows,...
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My Brigadista Year by Katherine Paterson
The year is 1961 and thirteen-year-old Lora is determined to her part in the Cuban revolution. Having ousted the U.S.-backed government of President Fulgencio Batista in 1959, the new government led by...
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The Blossom and the Firefly by Sherri Smith
The Blossom and the Firefly is a haunting story of love, duty and rebirth during the final days of World War II. Set in 1945 Japan the story is divided into two narratives.The first is that of...
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DVD: Emma
The 2018 version of Emma directed by Autumn de Wilde is probably one of the quirkiest adaptations of a period drama in years.The movie is based on the Jane Austen novel of the same name and follows...
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Wink by Rob Harrell
In Wink, twelve-year-old Ross Maloy has been diagnosed with a rare form of eye cancer called mucoepidermoid carcinoma of the lacrimal gland. Ross's story is told in the present as he goes through a...
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DVD: 1917
1917 is a war movie that tells the story of two fictional soldiers and their journey to warn another British unit that it is not to launch a planned attack on German lines.Lance Corporal Thomas Blake...
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They Went Left by Monica Hesse
They Went Left is Monica Hesse's newest offering. This novel focuses on the post-World War II period as a holocaust survivor, eighteen-year-old Zofia Lederman searches among the ruins of Europe for her...
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The Train by Jodie Callaghan
The Train is a children's picture book that introduces the topic of residential schools to young readers. In this short but important picture book, a young girl named Ashley is on her way home from...
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This Light Between Us by Andrew Fukuda
This Light Between Us is the heartbreaking story of two teens whose long-distance friendship is ripped apart by the events of World War II. Ten-year-old Charlie Levy, who lives in Paris, France begins...
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Baggage by Wendy Phillips
Baggage explores the issue of illegal refugees and human trafficking in this novel set in Vancouver, British Columbia. The story is told in verse, through voices of five people, Ms. Nelson a teacher,...
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Escargot by Dashka Slater
Escargot is the name of a dashing, suave French snail. And he's on a mission to be the reader's favourite animal and to get to the delicious salad at the end of the book! Along the way, Escargot fills...
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