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Grades 10 and up

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Bacchanalia Revisited: Western Canada's Boozy Skid to Social Disaster
James H. Gray
Reviewed by Jim Delaney
Grades 12 and up
1983 July

Back to Basics: How to Learn and Enjoy our Traditional Skills
Reviewed by Carol MacDonald
Grades 9 and up
1982 September

Backdoor to the Klondike
Joan Weir
Reviewed by Walter Kalyn
Grades 10 and up / Ages 15 and up
1989 July

The Bag Man
Douglas C. Perry
Reviewed by Jean Keenan
Grades 9 and up
1984 May

Baker's Dozen: Stories by Women
Women's Press
Reviewed by donalee Moulton-Barrett
Grades 12 and up
1985 January

The Bald Eagle: Haunts And Hablts Of A Wilderness Monarch
Jon Gerrard and Gary Bortolotti
Reviewed by Peter Croskery
Grades 11 and up / Ages 16 and up
1989 January

The Bamboo Bears: The Life and Troubled Times of the Giant Panda
Clive Roots
Reviewed by Hugh A. Cook
Grades 7 and up / Ages 12 and up
1989 September

The Bantams: the Untold Story of World War I
Sidney Allinson
Reviewed by Neil Payne
Grades 10 and up
1983 September

Banting: a Biography
Michael Bliss
Reviewed by Lois Hird
Grades 12 and up
1984 September

The Barbados Journal 1932
J.E.H. MacDonald
Reviewed by J.E. Simpson
Grades 10 and up / Ages 15 and up
1989 September

Barbarossa Red: A Novel
Dennis Jones
Reviewed by Jerry McDonnell
Grades 11 and up
1986 September

The Bare Facts: My Life as a Stripper
Annie Ample
Reviewed by Catherine Joan MacDonnell
Grades 12 and up
1989 March

Barefoot on the Prairie: Memories of Life on a Prairie Homestead
Ferne Nelson
Reviewed by Gerald R. Brown
Grades 11 and up / Ages 16 and up
1990 March

The Basement Book
Harris Mitchell
Reviewed by Peter Chernoff
Grades 10 and up
1982 November

A Basket of Apples and Other Stories
Shirley Faessler
Reviewed by Adele Ashby
Grades 11 and up
1988 September

Bat Masterson's Last Regular Job
Bill Ballantyne
Reviewed by Alan Thomas
Grades 10 and up / Ages 15 and up
1990 May

Bats
M. Brock Fenton
Reviewed by Peter Croskery
Grades 12 and up /Ages 17 and up
1993 September

The Battle Over Biligualism: The Manitoba Language Question, 1983-85
Russell Doern
Reviewed by R. Wieler
Grades 11 and up
1986 May

Be a Better Grocery Shopper
Rhonda Windsor-Maxwell
Reviewed by Olive Bowles
Grades 11 and up
1982 September

Be Restored to Health: How to Manage Stress, Heal Your Self & Be Whole
Lou Coffey-Lewis
Reviewed by Diane Ikonen
Grades 11 and up
1982 November

Beef and the Balanced Diet
Reviewed by Joyce Brown
Grades 9 and up
1982 September

A Beeman's Journey
Charles Sauriol
Reviewed by Elaine Balpataky
Grades 11 and up
1985 January

Before and After
Katherine Govier
Reviewed by Barbara Egerer
Grades 11 and up / Ages 16 and up
1989 September

The Beginnings of the Book Trade in Canada
George Parker
Reviewed by Adèle Ashby
Grades 12 and up
1985 November

Behind Closed Doors: How the Rich Won Control of Canada's Tax System
Linda McQuaig
Reviewed by David Chadwick
Grades 12 and up
1988 July

Being Here: A Collection of Writings By Kids at the IWK Children's Hospital
Compiled by Lisa Joyce
Reviewed by Maryleah Otto
Grades 5 and up / Ages 10 and up
1991 October

Belmullet
Jocelyn Cobb
Reviewed by Joan Kerrigan
Grades 11 and up
1983 May

Below the Peacock Fan: First Ladies of the Raj
Marian Fowler
Reviewed by Joan M. Payzant
Grades 10 and up
1987 September

Bend & Stretch: Suppleness and Strength Exercises
Bob Faulkner and Gord Stewart
Reviewed by Elizabeth Woodger
Grades 9 and up
1983 July

Beneath the Skin of Paradise: the Piaf
Judith Fitzgerald
Reviewed by Donalee Moulton-Barrett
Grades 12 and up
1984 November

Bennett II: the Decline and Stumbling of Social Credit Government in British Columbia 1979-83
Stan Persky
Reviewed by John D. Crawford
Grades 11 and up
1983 November

Beowulf: A New Translation
Gildas Roberts
Reviewed by Alan Thomas
Grades 9 and up
1985 May

The Bequest and Other Stories
Jerry Wexler
Reviewed by Tony Cosier
Grades 10 and up
1985 March

Berlin Solstice
Sylvia Fraser
Reviewed by Joan McGrath
Adult
1985 January

Best Canadian Political Cartoons 1984
N.M. Stahl (Edited by)
Reviewed by Louise Dick
Grades 9 and up
1985 March

Best Canadian Stories 91
David and Maggie Helwig
Reviewed by Katheryn Broughton
Grades 11 and up / Ages 16 and up
1992 March

The Best of Crocus Coulee
Betty Kilgour
Reviewed by Elizabeth Gowan
Grades 12 and up
1986 July

The Best Gift: A Record of the Carnegie Libraries in Ontario
Margaret Beckman, Stephen Langmead and John Black
Reviewed by Joan Kerrigan
Grades 10 and up
1985 January

The Best of Jim Endicott
James G. Endicott
Reviewed by John Harkness
Grades 12 and up
1983 September

The Better Book for Getting Hired: a Professional Approach to Writing Resumes and Marketing Yourself
Robert P. Downe
Reviewed by Roger Lang
Grades 10 and up
1983 July

Betty Mitchell
Kenneth Dyba
Reviewed by Louise Griffith
Grades 11 and up
1987 May

Between France and New France: Life Aboard the Tall Sailing Ships
Gilles Proulx
Reviewed by Kenneth A. Elliott
Grades 11 and up
1985 May

Between Worlds
Maggie Goh and Craig Stephenson (Edited by)
Reviewed by John D. Crawford
Grades 9 and up / Ages 14 and up
1990 September

Beyond Courage: The Canadians at the Second Battle of Ypres
George Cassar
Reviewed by John Harkness
Grades 12 and up
1986 May

Beyond Forget: Rediscovering the Praries
Mark Abley
Reviewed by Marc Shaw
Grades 11 and up
1987 November

Beyond Those Mountains: In Search of Freedom
Dick Thiessen
Reviewed by Esther Hutchison
Grades 9 and up
1986 July

Bibliography of Theatre History of Canada: The Beginnings Through 1984 /
Bibliographie d'histoire du theâtre au Canada: Des débuts -- fin 1984
Edited by John Ball and Richard Plant
Reviewed by Ted Monkhouse
Grades 12 and up / Ages 17 and up
1994 September

Bicycle Camping in Canada
Bruce W. Leaden
Reviewed byC.J. Sulkowski
Grades 9 and up
1986 January

Big Bear: The End of Freedom
Hugh A. Dempsey
Reviewed by R. Rennie
Grades 10 and up
1985 May

The Big Evasion: Abortion, The Issue That Won't Go Away
Anne Collins
Reviewed by Barbara Jo May
Grades 12 and up
1985 November

Big Time Women From Way Back When
Reviewed by Alan Thomas
Grades 12 and up / Ages 17 and up
1994 November/December

Bill Miner... Stagecoach & Train Robber
Frank W. Anderson
Reviewed by Sister Mechtilde Byblow
Grades 10 and up
1983 May

Bill Mustard, Surgical Pioneer
Marilyn Dunlop
Reviewed by Ruth Bainbridge
Grades 10 and up / Ages 15 and up
1990 January

Billy Bishop Goes to War
John Gray
Reviewed by Pat Bolger
Grades 9 and up
1982 November

Billy: The Life and Photographs of William S.A. Beal
Robert Barrow and Leigh Hambly
Reviewed by A.L. Florence
Grades 12 and up/Ages 17 and up
1989 May

Billy Bishop, Canadian Hero
Dan McCaffey
Reviewed by Lynne McAvoy
Grades 10 and up
1989 March

The Birch Bark Caper
Stanley Burke
Reviewed by Jim Delaney
Grades 11 and up
1982 September

A Bird in the House
Margaret Laurence
Reviewed by Joanne K.A. Peters
Grades 11 and up / Ages 16 and up
1989 May

Birding, or Desire: Poems
Don McKay
Reviewed by Tony Cosier
Grades 10 and up
1984 January

Birds of the Cottage Country
William C. Mansell
Reviewed by Elinor Kelly
Grades 11 and up
1986 May

Birds of a Feather
Catholyn K. Jansen
Reviewed by Grace Shaw
Grades 11 and up / Ages 16 and up
1991 September

Birds of the Canadian Rockies
George W. Scotter et al.
Reviewed by Elinor Kelly
Grades 10 and up / Ages 15 and up
1990 September

The Birth Control King of the Upper Volta
Leon Rooke
Reviewed by Boh Kinczyk
Grades 12 and up
1983 May

Birthright
Robert E. Wall
Reviewed by Jean Henderson
Grades 11 and up
1982 September

The Bishop's Candlesticks
Norman McCinnel
Reviewed by Louise Griffith
Grades 10 and up
1983 March

Black Blood
F.G. Paci
Reviewed by Janice Vaudry
Grades 12 and up/Ages 17 and up
1992 May

Black Madonna: a Novel
F. G. Paci
Reviewed by Boh Kinczek
Grades 11 and up
1982 September

Black Powder: Estevan 1931
Rex Deverell
Reviewed by Walter Kalyn
Grades 12 and up
1982 November

Black Swan
Gertrude Story
Reviewed by Dianne Clipsham
Grades 12 and up
1987 March

Black Wolf: The Life of Ernest Thompson Seton
Betty Keller
Reviewed by Ellen Robson
Grades 12 and up
1985 May

Blind Date
Susan Kerslake
Reviewed by Margaret Maclean
Grades 12 and up / Ages 17 and up
1989 September

Blind Trust: Inside the Sinclair Stevens Affair
Rod McQueen
Reviewed by Vic Stecyk
Grades 10 and up
1988 May

Bloodsong and Other Stories of South Africa
Ernst Havemann
Reviewed by Esther Hutchison
Grades 12 and up / Ages 17 and up
1989 November

Blood Ties and Other Stories
Robin Mathews
Reviewed by Ruth Cosstick
Grades 11 and up
1985 May

Bloody Victory: Canadians and the D-Day Campaign 1944
J. L. Granatstein and Desmond Morton
Reviewed by J. D. Ingram
Grades 12 and up
1984 November

Bluebeard's Egg
Margaret Atwood
Reviewed by James Kingstone
Grades 12 and up
1984 September

Bluebeard's Egg
Margaret Atwood
Reviewed by Joan VanSickle
Grades 12 and up
1985 July

The Blue Jar
Anne Konrad
Reviewed by Ruth Cosstick
Grades 10 and up
1985 November

The Blue Jean Collection
Edited by Peter Carver
Joyce Brown
Grades 7-10 / Ages 12-15
1992 October

Blue Light Bay and College
Kathleen McCracken
Reviewed by Alan Thomas
Grades 11 and up / Ages 16 and up
1992 September

A Body Surrounded by Water: An Inspector Charlie Salter Novel
Eric Wright
Reviewed by Ted Monkhouse
Grades 9 and up
1987 November

Bonds of Wire: A Memoir
Kingsley Brown
Reviewed by Joan McGrath
Grades 11 and up / Ages 16 and up
1989 July

Bone Bird
Darlene Barry Quaife
Reviewed by Mollie Hooper
Grades 10 and up / Ages 15 and up
1989 September

Boogie, Pete, and the Senator
Mark Miller
Reviewed by Bessie Egan
Grades 11 and up
1988 September

Boogie's Book on Fitness
David Bogoch
Reviewed by Michael Freeman
Grades 9 and up
1982 September

The Book of ICON
John Herriot
Reviewed by Don Precosky
Grades 12 and up
1985 November

The Book of Matthew: The Story of a Learning Disabled Child
Betty Jane Wylie
Reviewed by John D. Crawford
Grades 9 and up
1985 July

Book of Mercy
Leonard Cohen
Reviewed by Tony Cosier
Grades 10 and up
1984 September

Booze
James R. Swallows
Reviewed by Louise Griffith
Grades 9 and up
1984 May

Booze, Boats and Billions: Smuggling Liquid Gold!
C.W. Hunt
Reviewed by Donna J. Adrian
Grades 10 and up
1989 May

Booze. Director's Copy
James R. Swallows
Reviewed by Louise Griffith
Grades 9 and up
1984 May

Borderline
Janette Turner Hospital
Reviewed by Pamela Black
Grades 12 and up
1986 March

Border/Lines: Cultures. Constexts. Canadas
Border/Lines Magazine Society
Reviewed by Vivienne Denton
Grades 12 and up
1986 March

Born to be Hung
H. "Dude" Lavington
Reviewed by Mary Fallis
Grades 10 and up
1984 March

Borrowed Beauty
Maxine Tynes
Reviewed by Maryleah Otto
Grades 9 and up
1988 March

Boston: the Canadian Story
David Blaikie
Reviewed by Ron Jaques
Grades 10 and up
1984 September

Both Sides of the Street: One Man's Life in Business and the Arts in Canada
Floyd D. Chalmers
Reviewed by A. Louise Nordin
Grades 11 and up
1984 March

Bottled Roses
Darlene Madott
Reviewed by Margarent MacLean
Grades 12 and up
1985 September

The Boundary Hunters: Surveying the 141st Meridian and the Alaska Panhandle
Lewis Green
Reviewed by Gerri Young
Grade 11 and up
1982 November

The Bountiful Baron of Buffalo: the Life and Times of Jesse Ketchum
Herman Sass
Reviewed by Elle Robson
Grades 9 and up
1983 November

Bourassa
Michel Vastel
Reviewed by Thomas F. Chambers
Grades 10 and up / Ages 15 and up
1992 March

Bourgeois Blues
Lisa Herman
Reviewed by Melanie Fogel
Grades 10 and up / Ages 15 and up
1989 September

BP Nichol: What History Teaches
Stephen Scobie
Reviewed by Alan Thomas
Grades 12 and up
1985 September

Breakaway
Paul Yee
Reviewed by Margaret Mackey
Grades 8 and up / Ages 13 and up
1994 September

Breaking the Banks
Arthur Johnson
Reviewed by John D. Crawford
Grades 11 and up
1988 September

Breaking Smith's Quarterhorse
Paul St. Pierre
Reviewed by Mary Fallis
Grades 10 and up
1984 September

Breaking Up Ontario Hydro's Monopoly
Laurence Solomon
Reviewed by Barbara A. Macrae
Grades 12 and up
1983 January

The Bremen
Fred W. Hotson
Reviewed by Alfred F.F. Greenwood
Grades 9 and up
1989 January

The Bridge Out of Town
Jake MacDonald
Reviewed by Joanne Robertson
Grades 10 and up
1987 January

Bridges 4
S.D. Robinson and others
Reviewed by Joanne K.A. Peters
Grade 10
1987 May

British Columbia: a Celebration
Edited by George Woodcock
Reviewed by John D. Crawford
Grades 11 and up
1984 March

British Columbia Heritage Cookbook; A Treasury of British Columbia Treats
Mary Evaas-Atkinson
Reviewed by Mollie Hooper
Grades 11 and up
1985 May

British Columbia: An Illustrated History
Geoffrey Molyneux
Reviewed by Howard Hurt
Grades 9 and up / Ages 14 and up
1993 November

British Columbia: Visions of the Promised Land
Brenda Lea White (Edited by)
Reviewed by Don Precosky
Grades 11 and up
1987 May

British Columbia: Its Resources and People
Charles N. Forward (Edited by)
Reviewed by Robin Lewis
Grades 12 and up
1988 May

The Broadview Book of Sports Anecdotes
Edited by Brendan Connor
Reviewed by Walter Kalyn
Grades 10 and up / Ages 15 and up
1990 March

Broken Silence: Dialogues from the Edge
Andre Stein
Reviewed by Joan McGrath
Grades 12 and up
1985 January

Brothers and Strangers
Marilyn Halvorson
Reviewed by Margaret Mackey
Grades 8-11 / Ages 13-16 D
1991 September

Brown's Weir
Gwendolyn Drew and Wayland Drew
Reviewed by Joan M. Payzant
Grades 9 and up
1983 November

Buckskin Pimpernel: the Exploits of Justus Sherwood, Loyalist Spy
Mary Beacock Fryer
Reviewed by Jack Brown
Grades 9 and up
1982 September

Builders of British Columbia: an Industrial History
G. W. Taylor
Reviewed by John D. Crawford
Grades 10 and up
1983 January

Building Global Security: Agenda for the 1990's
Douglas Roche
Reviewed by Charles Ottosen
Grades 10 and up / Ages 15 and up
1990 May

Building the Rideau Canal: a Pictorial History
Robert W. Passfield
Reviewed by Jack Brown
Grade 9 and up
1982 November

The Bumper Book
John Metcalf (Edited by)
Reviewed by Bohdan Kinczyk
Grades 12 and up
1987 May

Burial Ground
Pauline Holdstock
Reviewed by Sharon A. McLennan McCue
Grades 12 and up/Ages 17 and up
1992 May

The Burning of the Rose
Ruth Nichols
Reviewed by Mollie Hooper
Grades 12 and up / Ages 17 and up
1990 May

Bush Workers and Bosses
Ian Radforth
Reviewed by Walter Kalyn
Grades 12 and up
1988 September

By-Pass
Tony Foster
Reviewed by John D. Crawford
Grades 11 and up
1983 September

By Persons Unknown
Barbara Amiel and George Jonas
Reviewed by Jean Keenan
Grades 12 and up
1983 September

By Steam Boat and Steam Train: the Story of the Huntsville and Lake of Bays Railway and Navigation Companies
Niall MacKay
Reviewed by Albert P. Calame
Grades 9 and up
1983 May

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