Grace McCleen’s The Land of Decoration (2012)

2014-03-15T19:47:37-04:00

Ten-year-old Judith isn't very concerned that Armageddon is coming. In fact, she's not sorry that soon "nothing of this old world will be left". "[I]t’s good because polar bears are starving and trees are dying and if you put a plastic bag in the earth it will never

Grace McCleen’s The Land of Decoration (2012)2014-03-15T19:47:37-04:00

Girls for sale: at what cost?

2014-03-15T19:44:56-04:00

Not in your neighbourhood, right? When you think about trafficking, you think of "Thai girls in shackles", or "Russian girls held at gunpoint by the mob", or "illegal border crossings, fake passports, and captivity". You don't think of Americans trafficking Americans; that doesn't happen to American girls. You

Girls for sale: at what cost?2014-03-15T19:44:56-04:00

Whose daughter did Cinderella eat?

2014-03-15T19:43:58-04:00

Harper Collins, 2011 Peggy Orenstein's to start with. But Cinderella has consumed countless little girls, and she has not yet had her fill. And that's not only speaking of the Grimm Brothers version of "Cinderella". Though readers know there are far grimmer versions (certainly gorier, with stepsisters lopping

Whose daughter did Cinderella eat?2014-03-15T19:43:58-04:00

How To Be Black: February and Beyond

2019-07-22T14:21:48-04:00

HarperCollins, 2012 Baratunde Thurston's book begins with a disclaimer; he announces straight-off that if you bought this book hoping to change your race, there will be no refunds. It sounds funny when he says it. Well, humour is hard to predict, right? But I thought it was funny when

How To Be Black: February and Beyond2019-07-22T14:21:48-04:00

Mary Horlock’s The Book of Lies (2011)

2014-03-13T20:39:48-04:00

Mary Horlock's The Book of Lies HarperCollins, 2011 Did you know that there were Nazi concentration camps on British soil during the Second World War? I didn’t, but having read The Book of Lies, I now know. There were four of them actually. And it’s highly appropriate that Cat be

Mary Horlock’s The Book of Lies (2011)2014-03-13T20:39:48-04:00
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