I recently re-read Endymion Spring, and found myself taking copious notes about references to books and libraries. Since I share Matthew Skelton’s evident love of print and books and library collections, I am sharing some of my reflections here.
Endymion Spring is an adventure about two boys who overcome their fears of inadequacy to safeguard knowledge [...]
Fifteen year-old Tamura Tierney is determined to become a model. Obsessed with fashion, make up, hair and clothes, she’s not going to let the fact that she’s living in her third foster home, with the kind but style-challenged Shirl and Herb stop her from fulfilling her dreams.
Eighty-nine year old Miss Jean Barclay, may be [...]
On the afternoon of Friday, October 15, 1954, thirteen year-old Lizzie Hardy walks the two McBride children home to their house on Raymore Drive and then prepares to baby-sit them until their parents return home from work. While Lizzie enjoys looking after six year-old Susie, she finds her older brother David a difficult kid [...]
When traitors to the Two Lands kill his master, the Kushite spy Setka, and track him into the desert, fourteen year-old Nebi knows he must overcome the pain of his injuries, and get to Thebes. Charged by Setka to reveal to the Princess Amonirdis what they have learned about a plot by many Egyptian [...]
Captured during a Viking raid on her Irish village, Kiera is taken to Iceland where she is auctioned off as a slave to Bjorn and his wife Dagmar. When they join a small group of Norse settlers looking for richer fishing and hunting grounds and fertile land in which to plant crops, Kiera finds [...]
News that they have inherited a big old Victorian house in Mirimachi, New Brunswick, from a elderly great-aunt, Sarah Wentworth, whom neither has ever met comes as a surprise to Sarah Gilmore and her mother. For Maggie Gilmore, who has struggled for years to make ends meet on the salary and tips from her [...]
For Dusk and his colony, life in the giant sequoia, far from the politics and alliances of the beasts on the mainland, is peaceful and happy. As a young chiropter, Dusk’s only worries concern his furless sails and overcoming an almost irresistible urge to beat those sails and try to fly when, since the [...]
Blake Winters is not happy to find himself in Oxford, dragged there by his mother who is doing research in the ancient libraries its university colleges. He misses his father, who has remained in Canada, and worries that his parents’ separation will lead to divorce. Accompanied by his younger sister, Duck, Blake spends [...]
For sixteen year-old Jack O’Hara, a new life in India is both an exotic and fascinating departure from his previous life in the wilderness of Canada West and a return to where his Irish father and Indian mother met and married, and where he was born. With his parents both dead of smallpox, Jack [...]
In their house at the end of the road down in Hog’s Hollow, that year of 1965, the River family dreams. While Flo writes her epic of life in pre-Civil War America, she dreams of fame and fortune and of moving her family to a mansion in the South. Twelve year-old Beau builds [...]
