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The World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a global pandemic on 11 March 2020. With limited knowledge about the virus at the time, the inability to 'contain' it, its ability [...]

HERTZOG, Francis. Home, a novel. Fithian. 175p. c2005. 1-5647-444-2. $14.95. SA Hertzog's sea adventure takes the reader not only across the tossing waves, but also into the past. This story [...]

STENHOUSE, Ted. A dirty deed. (Sequel to Across the Steel River.) Kids Can Press. 186p. c2003. 1-55337-361-8. $6.95. J In the small prairie town of Grayson in 1952, the lines [...]

VAIL, Rachel. Ever after. HarperCollins. 173p. c1994. 0-06-058748-2. $799. J Fourteen-year-old Molly is looking for that 'something missing' in her life. She's not sure what it is, but she feels [...]

OLSEN, Sylvia. White girl. Sono Nis, dist. by Orca. 234p. c2004. 1-55039-147-X. $8.95. JS Fourteen-year-old Josie, with her white-blond hair and light blue eyes, is the last person you'd expect [...]

MARLOW, Susan K. Andrea Carter and the long ride home. (Circle C Adventures.) Kregel. 128p. c2005.0-8254-3188-3. $7.99. J Living on her family's horse ranch in 1880s California, 12-year-old Andrea 'Andi' [...]

KIMMEL, Elizabeth Cody. Lily B. on the brink of cool. HarperCollins. 272p. c2005. 006-000588-2. $5.99. J Lily is convinced that summer is going to be a real drag. The camp [...]

GOLDEN, Christopher & GILMORE, Ford Lytle. Horseman. (The Hollow, #1.) Penguin, Razorbill. 251 p. c2005. 1-59514-024-7. $5.99. S From the moment that Aimee Lancaster arrives in Sleepy Hollow with her [...]

AIDINOFF, Elsie V. The garden. HarperTempest. 403p. c2004. 0-06-055607-2. $6.99. SA The story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden is turned on its head in this novel. [...]

WITHERS, Pam. Camp Wild. (Orca Currents.) Orca. 104p. c2005. 1-55143-361-3. $7.95. JS Fourteen-year-old Wilf is angry when his parents tell him they've arranged for him to attend Camp Wild again [...]

LAVENDER, William. Just Jane. Harcourt. 328p. c2002. 0-13-205472-3. $6.95. JS The year is 1776, and Lady Jane Prentice has just arrived in Charlestown, South Carolina to live with her uncle [...]

CANN, Kate. California holiday or, how the world's worst summer job gave me a great new life. HarperCollins. 400p. c2003. 0-06-056161-0. $5.99. SA It's been a long time since Rowan [...]

KAYE, Marvin, ed. The dragon quintet; five original short novels. Tor. 302p. c2004. 0-765-31136-4. $13.95. SA Editor Marvin Kaye has brought together new works by five of fantasy's most renowned [...]

FORRESTER, Sandra. The witches of Bailiwick; a new Beatrice Bailey adventure. Barron's. 228p. map. c2005. 0-7641-3025-0. $4.95. J Book five in Forrester's Beatrice Bailey adventures finds the young witch facing [...]

YARBROUGH, Steve. Prisoners of war, a novel. Random House, Vintage. 287p. c2004. 1-4000-3062-5. $13.95. SA Loring, Mississippi in 1943 is the setting for this novel about several young men who [...]

MAZETTI, Katarina. God and I broke up. Tr. by Maria Lundun. Groundwood. 127p. c1995. 0-88899-617-4. $6.95. SA * Sixteen-year-old Linnea is struggling to come to terms with what has happened [...]

CARLSON, Ron. The speed of light. HarperCollins, Tempest. 280p. c2003.0-380-81312-2. $6.99. J The three months of summer between elementary school and junior high provide rich material for Ron Carlson's coming-of-age [...]