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Alberta Children's Book of the Year Vicky Metcalf Short Story Award winner for "Sun Dogs It is 1965, and Eric is 16. It's a year to fix in the mind, especially when you're a boy stretching to become an adult. You pull away from parents. You discover Louise, her stunning black hair and eager brown eyes. Your first kiss is like falling into the House of Pleasure. The seven interlinked stories in Necking with Louise immerse teen readers in the ...

It starts with the story of Arthur Clive Pinner, a Home Boy shipped to Canada in 1909, desperate for some kind of refuge. Flash forward ninety years: the now ancient Art Pinner sits in his wheelchair, vaguely aware of the intrigues and stresses of twenty-first century Sky Falls. The real-life dramas swirling around Art make up the bulk of this collection of thirteen stories about a group of young people coming of age in a small town in norther...

Why does the prospect of a holiday with Dad make Deb so uneasy? The answer comes quickly when she and her brother and sister find themselves not on vacation, but abducted by their own father! Well-intentioned, but not the most capable parent, Deb's father is determined to make them a family again. Here is a compelling, contemporary adventure and a courageous book that is all too believable.

An evil sorcery prowls the land. The Oldwives are losing their magic, and an ill wind weakens the hiding spell that protects them. Worse still, Marwen is powerless to stop any of it. She must find the Key, the powerful talisman woven into her tapestry. In the deathlands Marwen and the Oldwives must travel to solve its mystery.

Body? Or not body? Mine? Or yours? Touch? Or sensual departure? Pornograph is a collection of poetry and prose poems that grabs at the physical alienation that occurs between the act of naming and the physical body. It poetically investigates the technologizing of the North American body, of the body at rest, of the body in palpable motion. This book rubs up against the catagories, shuffles the cue cards, slides the body between nouns and adje...

Our new first chapter-book series begins with a three-book offering from best-selling author Ted Staunton. Monkey Mountain Books dig into the lives of the children of Hope Springs -- a small town with more than its share of quirky characters, daring intrigues, and troublesome mysteries.The Monkey Mountain Monster finds Lindsey a reluctant day-camper partly because most of the kids come from another school in her town of Hope Springs, but mostl...

From tantalizing spins on fairy tales to perilous questions of gender and identity, misled never takes words at face value. Shifts in syntax and self mirror shifts in health and sexuality while humor, angst and eroticism become the backdrop in a passion play on words. A girl's first crush on a boy transforms into passionate lesbian dreams and encounters. An incomplete memory of a clichA(c) ricochets off the familiar. A writer's contemplation o...

Wherever his pen turns, Stephen Scobie explores the disguised self, the shadowy other. His most daring temptation has been to don the words and persona of none other than Jesus Christ. Against this startling rhetorical move, Scobie weaves his meditative, resonant long poem into an image of Christ as the both the Son of God and the intimately suffering son of humanity.