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In Canada, Governor General’s Literary Award–winning poet George Elliott Clarke named her a “Writer to Watch.” At the Banff Writing Studio, she worked with Greg Hollingshead and Janice Galloway, and she became close to Caroline Adderson.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSTRONG INTEREST IN STORIES ABOUT DIASPORA COMMUNITIES:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eRecent hits such as David Chariandy’s \u003cem\u003eBrother\u003c\/em\u003e, Mohsin Hamid’s \u003cem\u003eExit West\u003c\/em\u003e, and Viet Thanh Nguyen’s \u003cem\u003eThe Sympathizer\u003c\/em\u003e have shown that there is a strong interest in stories set among diaspora communities.\u003cem\u003e Frying Plantain\u003c\/em\u003e’s evocation of the Canadian Caribbean community is another strong contender in this field.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Description_for_R_0":"\u003cp\u003eFrom “Pig Head”\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e On my first visit to Jamaica I saw a pig’s severed head. My grandmother’s sister Auntie had asked me to grab two bottles of Ting from the icebox and when I walked into the kitchen and pulled up the icebox lid there it was, its blood splattered and frozen thick on the bottles beneath it, its brown tongue lolling out from between its clenched teeth, the tip making a small dip in the ice water.\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e My cousins were in the next room so I clamped my palm over my mouth to keep from screaming. They were all my age or younger, and during the five days I’d already been in Hanover they’d all spoken easily about the chickens they strangled for soup and they’d idly thrown stones at alligators for sport, side-eyeing me when I was too afraid to join in. I wanted to avoid a repeat of those looks, so I bit down on my finger to push the scream back down my throat.\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e Only two days before I’d squealed when Rodney, who was ten like me, had wrung a chicken’s neck without warning; the jerk of his hands and the quick snap of the bone had made me fall back against the coops behind me. He turned to me after I’d silenced myself and his mouth and nose were twisted up as if he was deciding whether he was irritated with me or contemptuous or just amused.\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “Ah wah?” he asked. “Yuh nuh cook soup in Canada?”\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “Sure we do,” I said, my voice a mumble. “The chicken is just dead first.”\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e He didn’t respond, and he didn’t say anything about it in front of our other cousins, but soon after they all treated me with a newfound delicacy. When the girls played Dandy Shandy with their friends they stopped asking me to be in the middle and when all of them climbed trees to pluck ripe mangoes, they no longer hung, loose-limbed, from the branches and tried to convince me to clamber up and join them. For the first three days of my visit, they’d at least tease me, broad smiles stretching their cheeks, and yell down, “This tree frighten yuh like how duppy frighten yuh?” Then they’d let leaves fall from their hands onto my hair and laugh when I tried to pick them out of my plaits. I’d fuss and grumble, piqued at the taunting but grateful for the inclusion, for being thought tough enough to handle the same mockery they inflicted on each other. But after the chicken, they didn’t goad me anymore and they only approached me for games like tag, for games they thought Canadian girls could stomach.\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“What’s taking you so long?” My mother came up behind me and instead of waiting for me to answer, leaned forward and peered into the icebox, swallowing hard as she did. “Great,” she whispered. “Are you going to be traumatized by this?”\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e I didn’t quite know what she meant — but I felt like the right answer was no, so I shook my head. My mother was like my cousins. I hadn’t seen her butcher any animals, but back home she stepped on spiders without flinching, she cussed out men who tried to reach for her in the street, and I couldn’t bear her scoffing at me for screaming at a pig’s head.\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “Eloise!” Nana called. My grandmother came into the kitchen from the backyard and stood next to us, her hands on her hips. The deep arch in her back made her breasts and belly protrude, and the way she stood with her legs apart reminded me of a pigeon.\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “I hear Auntie call out she want a drink from the fridge. That there is the freezer yuh nuh want that. Yuh know wah Bredda put in there? Kara canna see that, she nuh raise up for it.”\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “I closed the lid,” said my mother. “Anyway, it was a pig’s head. It’s not like she saw the pig get slaughtered. She’s fine.”\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “Kara’s a soft one. She canna handle these things.”\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e I felt my mother take a deep breath in and I suddenly became aware of all the exposed knives in the kitchen and wondered if there was any way I could hide them without being noticed. 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Frying Plantain
Frying Plantain follows a girl from elementary school to high school graduation as she navigates Black identity in a predominantly white society.
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Fugue With Bedbug
The eagerly awaited second collection from acclaimed poet Anne-Marie Turza.
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Furious
The early Governor General’s Literary Award–winning collection from one of Canada’s most profoundly inventive and eminent poets.
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An insightful, heartfelt story.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eChildren's Literature Comprehensive Database\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Children's Literature Comprehensive Database","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003e“A welcome addition to any middle-grade collection.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eCanadian Children's Book News\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Canadian Children's Book News","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003e“Bold and fascinating … \u003cem\u003eGame Face\u003c\/em\u003e is a compelling hockey story that offers insight into anxiety, while simultaneously hooking teens on free verse – a hat trick if ever there was one.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eCM: Canadian Review of Materials\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"CM: Canadian Review of Materials","OtherText_Review_4":"\u003cp\u003e“Written in free verse that is both varied and effective, \u003cem\u003eGame Face\u003c\/em\u003e is an easy-to-read story that will resonate with any young person who has faced a personal challenge and overcome it with courage and determination.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eWinnipeg Free Press\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_Review_5":"\u003cp\u003e“Jonah's story will have readers relating, caring and turning the pages, hoping for his success.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eCalgary Herald\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Calgary Herald","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJonah is determined to prove that anxiety won’t stop him from succeeding as his hockey team’s goalie in this dynamic novel in verse.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","PrizeCodeText_0":"Nominated","PrizeCodeText_1":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_2":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_3":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_4":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_5":"Nominated","PrizeCodeText_6":"Nominated","PrizeCode_0":"07","PrizeCode_1":"04","PrizeCode_2":"04","PrizeCode_3":"04","PrizeCode_4":"04","PrizeCode_5":"07","PrizeCode_6":"07","PrizeName_0":"Forest of Reading Silver Birch Fiction Award","PrizeName_1":"IODE Violet Downey Book Award","PrizeName_2":"Saskatchewan Young Readers’ Choice Awards, Diamond Willow Award","PrizeName_3":"Red Cedar Book Award","PrizeName_4":"Chocolate Lily Book Awards, Novel Category","PrizeName_5":"Surrey Schools Book of the Year","PrizeName_6":"Langley Book of the Year","PrizeYear_0":"2025","PrizeYear_1":"2024","PrizeYear_2":"2024","PrizeYear_3":"2024","PrizeYear_4":"2024","PrizeYear_5":"2024","PrizeYear_6":"2025","ProductFormDescription":"epub","PublicationDate":"2023-09-05","Publisher":"Groundwood Books Ltd","ShortDescription":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJonah is determined to prove that anxiety won’t stop him from succeeding as his hockey team’s goalie in this dynamic novel in verse.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","Width":"5","WidthCode":"in"}
ages 9
to 7
/ grades 4
to 12
Game Face
Jonah is determined to prove that anxiety won’t stop him from succeeding as his hockey team’s goalie in this dynamic novel in verse.
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Tattoos, baggy pants, tagging, gangsta style, the unspoken threat -- it's all just around the corner in most of the world's major cities. From the streets of Los Angeles to the shantytowns of Cape Town, hundreds of thousands of \"at risk\" youth are deciding whether they should join their local gang.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eViolence, guns, the drug trade, racism, poverty, families under pressure and ever-widening slums all provide a witch's brew in which the youth gang tempts young males and females with a sense of identity and belonging that their world has denied them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGangs\u003c\/em\u003e exposes the roots of the problem as it moves from the banlieues of France to the favelas of Brazil. 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ages 14
and up
/ grades 9
and up
Gangs
Street gangs have exploded worldwide and this title in the Groundwork Guides series exposes the roots of the problem.
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Ecological gardening with ease and simplicity.
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ages 4
to 7
/ grades K
to 2
Gargantua (Jr!)
Before Gargantua Junior was born, Mom had a reputation for being a little wild. Now Junior wants to help her repair damage and protect the Earth!
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Gargoyles
Bill Gaston crafts these short fictions around the idea of the gargoyle — the concrete representation of extremes of human emotions.
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What is genocide? Why does it happen? What can be done to prevent it from happening again? These urgent questions are explored in an expanded edition.
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George Johnson's War
George's cloistered life in New York changes as the War for American Independence looms and he must struggle with what it means to be half Mohawk.
