TITLES AUTHORS MEDIA AGE/GRADE DATE FEATURES

Book Reviews by Age and Grade Level Grades 10 and up --A-- Abbr: Abbreviations for Scientific and Engineering Terms Reviewed by Ian Ferguson Grades 11 and up 1984 January The Aberhart Summer Bruce Allen Powe Reviewed by Esther Hutchison Grades 11 and up 1984 November Abortion and Conception Henry Morgentaler Reviewed by Alma Webster Grades 11 and up 1983 May About Novels David Booth and Stanley Skinner Reviewed by Kenneth Elliot Grades 9 and up / Ages 14 and up 1990 May Above Tide: Reflections on Roderick Haig-Brown Anthony Robertson Reviewed by John D. Crawford Grades 10 and up 1985 July According to Jake and the Kid W.O. Mitchell Reviewed by Linda Holeman Grades 10 and up / Ages 15 and up 1990 March An Account of a Voyage to the North West Coast of America in 1785 & 1786 Alexander Walker Reviewed by Adele Case Grades 9 and up 1983 March Accounting 1 G. E. Syme Reviewed by David Chadwick Grades 9 and up 1983 July Across Canada to the Klondyke Harry Graham Reviewed by Adele Case Grades 10 and up 1985 January Adelaide Hoodless: Domestic Crusader Cheryl MacDonald Reviewed by Leslie McGrath Grades 10 and up 1987 July Adjusting the Image: Women and Canadian Broadcasting Samantha Sanderson and Rose Potvin Reviewed by Irene J. Karasick Grades 12 and up 1988 September Adult Language Warning William Robertson Reviewed by Robert Lincoln Grades 12 and up / Ages 17 and up 1992 January Afraid to Ask: A Book About Cancer Judylaine Fine Reviewed by Glenn DiPasquale Grades 10 and up 1985 November Afriad to Ask: A Book About Cancer Judylaine Fine Reviewed by VanSickle Heaton Grades 9 and up 1985 March After the Applause Howe, Colleen, Gordie Howe and Charles Wilkins Reviewed by Ed Somerville Grades 8 and up / Ages 13 and up 1990 May After Atlantis Gary Hyland Reviewed by Alan Thomas Grades 10 and up/Ages 15 and up 1992 March After Bennett: A New Politics For British Columbia Warren Magnusson (Edited by) Reviewed by John D. Crawford Grades 12 and up 1987 July The Afterlife of George Cartwright John Steffler Reviewed by Catherine R. Cox Grades 11 and up / Ages 16 and up 1992 September After Sixty: Going Home Gertrude Story Reviewed by Hugh A. Cook & Katheryn Broughton Adult / Grades 11 and up/Ages 16 and up 1992 March Aging is a Family Affair Wendy Thompson Reviewed by Nadiya Blaine Grades 10 and up 1988 May Agnes MacPhail: Reformer Doris Pennington Reviewed by Jean Farquharson Grades 12 and up / Ages 17 and up 1990 May Aggressive Transport: Two Narrative Revisions 1975-1982 Brian Fawcett Reviewed by Sister Anne Leonard Grades 11 and up 1983 November Aids: What Every Responsible Canadian Should Know James D. Greig, Introduction by Dr. David Walters Reviewed by Lois Hird Grades 11 and up 1988 March Aids: What We Need to Know, an Instructional Program, Level I Nettie R. Bartel and John E. Orlando with Roxanne L. Bartel Reviewed by Kenneth Elliott Grades 10 and up / Ages 15 and up 1990 March Aids: What We Need to Know, an Instructional Program, Level II Nettie R. Bartel and John E. Orlando with Roxanne L. Bartel Reviewed by Kenneth Elliott Grades 10 and up / Ages 15 and up 1990 March Air Canada Owls: Travel Poems Glen Sorestad Reviewed by Ian Dempsey Grades 10 and up / Ages 15 and up 1990 November Albert Perlin: A Biography Francis G. Hollohan Reviewed by Joan M. Payzant Grades 11 and up 1986 July Alberta Sherman Hines Reviewed by Joanna Gerdung Grades 10 and up 1982 November Alberta Catholic Schools: A Social History Nicholas Tkach Reviewed by Robert Nicholas Bérard Grades 12 and up 1985 November Alibi: a Novel Robert Kroetsch Reviewed by Patrick Dunn Adult 1984 November Alice Warren Graves Reviewed by Jo-Anne Naslund Grades 10 and up 1983 January Alice Hunter's North Country Cookbook Alice Hunter Reviewed by Mollie Hooper Grades 11 and up 1987 March Alice Munro B. Pfaus Reviewed by Alan Thomas Grades 11 and up 1985 September Alice Munro: A Double Life Catherine Sheldrick Ross Reviewed by Alan Thomas Grades 9 and up / Ages 14 and up 1993 March Alice Munro: Paradox and Parallel W.R. Martin Reviewed by Bohdan Kinczyk Grades 12 and up 1987 November The All-Canadian Meat Book Reviewed by Marilyn H. Kogon Grades 9 and up 1984 March Allan MacLean, Jacobite General Mary Beacock Fryer Reviewed by Robert Nicholas Grades 10 and up 1988 July The Alley Cat Yves Beauchemin Reviewed by Philip K Harber Grades 12 and up 1986 September The Alligator Report W.P. Kinsella Reviewed by Michael Freeman Grades 12 and up 1987 May All About Law: Exploring the Canadian Legal System Dwight L. Gibson and Terry G. Murphy Reviewed by John D. Crawford Grades 10 and up 1986 May All About Law: Exploring the Canadian Legal System: Student Workbook Terry G. Murphy and Fredrick Jerman Reviewed by John D. Crawford Grades 10 and up 1986 May All the Polarities Philip Stratford Reviewed by Vivienne Denton Grades 11 and up 1987 January All My Relations: An Anthology of Contemporary Canadian Native Fiction Edited by Thomas King Reviewed by Lillian M. Turner Grades 10 and up / Ages 15 and up 1990 November All the Way Home Gabrielle Poulin Reviewed by donalee Moulton-Barrett Grades 12 and up 1985 July All the Way Home Max Braithwaite Reviewed by Marion Miutis Grades 12 and up 1986 July The Allergy Cookbook: Diets Unlimited for Limited Diets Reviewed by Marilyn H. Kogon Grades 10 and up 1983 November A/Long Prairie Line: An Anthology of Long Prairie Poems Daniel Lenoski Reviewed by Ian Dempsey Grades 11 and up / Ages 16 and up 1990 September Along the Shore: Tales by the Sea L.M. Montgomery Reviewed by Katherine Wallis Grades 7 and up / Ages 12 and up 1989 September Always Tip the Dealer Gary Ross Reviewed by Bob Laroureux Grades 10 and up 1982 September America: A History Allan Hux et. al. Reviewed by Adele M. Fasick Grades 11 and up 1988 May The Americans are Coming Herb Curtis Reviewed by Jerry McDonnell Grades 12 and up / Ages 17 and up 1990 May Among the Orangutans: The Birute Galdikas Story Evelyn Gallardo Reviewed by Fred Leicester Grades 4 and up / Ages 9 and up 1993 October Amongst Thistles and Thorns Austin C. Clarke Reviewed by Philip K. Herber Adult 1984 November Amours, Malices et...Orthographe Claire St-Onge Reviewed by Doris Lemoine Grades 7 and up/Ages 12 and up 1992 May Amphibians and Reptiles of Nova Scotia John Gilhen Reviewed by Andrew Pope Grades 10 and up 1984 November Ancient Canada Robert McGhee Reviewed by Joan Skogan Grades 8 and up / Ages 13 and up 1990 March "And Do You Have Anything Else?": Audition Pieces From Canadian Plays Edited by Margaret Bard, Peter Messaline and Miriam Newhouse Reviewed by Melanie Fogel Grades 10 and up/Ages 15 and up 1992 May And When You Go Fishing Ron Nelson Reviewed by Michael Freeman Grades 7-13 1985 July Angelo Branca, "Gladiator of the Courts" Vincent Moore Reviewed by John D. Crawford Grades 12 and up 1982 September The Anger in Ernest and Ernestine Robert Morgan, Martha Ross, and Leah Cherniak Reviewed by Alan Thomas Grades 10 and up / Ages 15 and up 1990 November Animal Fables and Other Tales Retold Enid F. D'Oyley Reviewed by Joan Weller Grades 7-10 1983 July Animals and Where They Live John Feltwell Reviewed by Hugh A. Cook Grades 2 to 10 1988 September The Animals in Their Elements Cynthia Flood Reviewed by Katheryn Broughton Grades 11 and up 1988 September Anna Leonowens: A Life Beyond the King and I Leslie Smith Dow Reviewed by Louise Reimer Grades 10 and up/Ages 15 and up 1992 March Anna's World Marie-Claire Blais Reviewed by donalee Moulton-Barrett Grades 11 and up 1985 July Anne of Windy Poplars L.M. Montgomery Reviewed by Dorothy Dodge Grades 7 and up / Ages 12 and up 1990 January The Annotated Bibliography of Canada's Major Authors, Volume Three Jack David and Robert Lecker (Edited by) Reviewed by Andrew Pope Grades 11 and up 1982 November The Annotated Bibliography of Canada's Major Authors, Volume Four Jack David and Robert Lecker (Edited by) Reviewed by Alan Thomas Grades 12 and up 1983 November The Annotated Bibliography of Canada's Major Authors, Volume Five Jack David and Robert Lecker (Edited by) Reviewed by Alan Thomas Grades 12 and up 1984 November Anonymity Suite David McFadden Reviewed by Bob Lincoln Grades 11 and up / Ages 16 and up 1992 October Another Country: Writings by and About Henry Kreisel Shirley Neuman (Edited by) Reviewed by Ruth Cosstick Grades 10 and up 1986 May Another Winter, Another Spring: A Love Remembered Louise de Kiriline Lawrence Reviewed by Irene Karasick Grades 10 and up 1988 July An Arctic Diary Georgia Reviewed by Ingrid vonHausen Grades 12 and up 1983 November The Anthology Anthology Robert Weaver (Edited by) Reviewed by Pia Christiansen Grades 10 and up 1985 March An Anthology of Canadian Liturature in English Daniel Moses and Terry Goldie Reviewed by David Chadwick Grades 10 and up / Ages 15 and up 1992 September Antiques Afloat: From the Golden Age of Boating in British Columbia Peter Vassilopoulos Reviewed by Adele Case Grades 10 and up 1983 November The Antlered Boy: Poems Lloyd Abbey Reviewed by Tony Cosier Grades 11 and up 1984 November Anyone Skating on that Middle Ground Sarah Robyn Reviewed by Pat Bolger Grades 11 and up 1986 March Anywhere Stories Leo Sawicki Reviewed by Patricia Fry Grades 7-10/Ages 12-15 1993 September The Apostate's Tattoo: Stories J. J. Steinfeld Reviewed by Tony Cosier Grades 11 and up 1984 September The Apple Connection Beatrice Ross Buszek Reviewed by Joyce Brown Grades 9 and up 1986 March An Apple a Day: a Holistic Health Primer Mel Borins Reviewed by Elizabeth Woodger Grades 9 and up 1983 November The Apprentice's Tale Hugh Mackay Ross Reviewed by Thomas F. Chambers Grades 9 and up 1987 July Approaches to Canadian Politics John H. Redekop (Edited by) Reviewed by Jim Carter Grades 11 and up 1983 September April Raintree Beatrice Culleton Reviewed by Lillian M. Turner Grades 10 and up / Ages 15 and up 1985 November Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich Stephen Leacock Reviewed by Jo Anna Burns Patton Grades 10 and up / Ages 15 and up 1989 September Arches in British Columbia Chuen-yan David Lai Reviewed by Joyce Brown Grades 11 and up 1983 March The Arctic 1927 A. Y. Jackson Reviewed by Lee Thirlwill Grades 9 and up 1983 May Arctic Exodus: The Last Great Trail Drive Dick North Reviewed by Lillian M. Turner Grades 10 and up / Ages 15 and up 1991 September The Argo Bounce Jay Teitel Reviewed by Michael Freeman Grades 10 and up 1983 March Army Without Banners John Beames Reviewed by Adele M. Fasick Grades 11 and up 1988 November The Artemesia Book: Poems Selected and New Colleen Thibaudeau Reviewed by Pat Bolger Grades 11 and up / Ages 16 and up 1991 October The Art of Darkness David McFadden Reviewed by Pat Bolger Grades 12 and up 1985 March Art in Everyday Life: Observations in Conteporary Canadian Design Peter Day and Linda Lewis Reviewed by William F. Benson Grades 9 and up 1989 March The Art of Japanese Cooking for all Seasons Mary Haji and Reiko Takashimi Reviewed by Bessie Condos Egan Grades 10 and up 1987 March Art of War: Painting It Out of the Picture Geoff Butler Reviewed by J.E. Simpson Grades 7 and up / Ages 12 and up 1991 March The Artist's Eye: an Anthology of 40 Years of Essays on Canadian Art Reviewed by James E. Simpson Grades 12 and up 1982 November Arts Manitoba: a Quaterly Review of the Arts Reviewed by A. L. Florence Grades 10 and up 1983 May As Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories Alistair MacLeod Reviewed by E. Robson Grades 11 and up 1986 September As Long As the Sun Shines and Water Flows: a Reader in Canadian Native Studies A. L. Getty and Antoine Lussier (Edited by) Reviewed by David Chadwick Grades 11 and up 1984 May As for Me and My House Sinclair Ross Reviewed by Elinor Kelly Grades 12 and up/Ages 17 and up 1989 May As She Began: an Illustrated Introduction to Loyalist Ontario Bruce Wilson Reviewed by Jack Brown Grades 10 and up 1982 September Ashbourn John Reibetanz Reviewed by Warner Winter Grades 10 and up 1988 May Aspects of Irish Halifax at Confederation Terrence M. Punch Reviewed by G. J. Casey Grades 10 and up 1983 November Aspects of the Culture of the French Minority of Newfoundland's West Coast Gerald Thomas Reviewed by G. J. Casey Grades 10 and up 1983 November Assu of Cape Mudge: Recollections of a Coastal Indian Chief Harry Assu with Joy Inglis Reviewed by Joan Skogan Grades 8-12 / Ages 13-17 1990 November The Astounding Long-Lost Letters of Dickens of the Mounted Edited by Eric Nicol Reviewed by Howard Hurt Grades 10 and up / Ages 15 and up 1990 January At the Alter: Matrimonial Tales L. M. Montgomery, Edited by Rea Wilmshurst Reviewed by Darleen R. Golke Grades 7-10 / Ages 12-15 1994 September At Face Value: The Life and Times of Eliza McCormack/John White Don Akenson Reviewed by Louise Dick Grades 12 and up / Ages 17 and up 1991 January The Atlantic Anthology, Volume 1: Prose Fred Cogswell (Edited by) Reviewed by Clare A. Darby Grades 10 and up 1984 November The Atlantic Anthology, Volume 2: Poetry Fred Cogswell (Edited by) Reviewed by Tony Cosier Grades 10 and up 1986 March At My Heart's Core & Overlaid: Two Plays Robertson Davies Reviewed by Gina Varty Grades 11 and up / Ages 16 and up 1992 March Author & Editor: a Working Guide Rick Archbold, et al. Reviewed by Adèle Ashby Grades 12 and up 1983 July Autobiography of Oliver Goldsmith: A Chapter in Canada's Literary History Oliver Goldsmith Reviewed by Joan M. Payzant Grades 10 and up 1986 March The Automobile Sage of British Columbia 1864-1914 G.W. Taylor Reviewed by Yoskyl Webb Grades 9 and up 1985 May Away From Home: Canadian Writers in Exotic Places Kildare Dobbs (Selected and Edited by) Reviewed by Esther Hutchison Grades 11 and up 1986 July The Avro Canada C102 Jetliner Jim Floyd Reviewed by Alfred F. Greenwood Grades 9 and up 1987 July The Axe's Edge Kristjana Gunnars Reviewed by Margaret MacLean Grades 12 and up 1984 May A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z |