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Grades 10 and up

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Fables of Brunswick Avenue
Katherine Govier
Reviewed by Marion Mintis
Grades 11 and up
1985 September

The Face in the Mirror: Teenagers Talk About Adoption
Marion Crook
Reviewed by Kenneth A. Elliott
Grades 10 and up
1987 March

A Fair Shake: Autobiographical Essays by McGill Women
Margaret Gillett and kay Sibbald (Edited by)
Reviewed by donalee Moulton-Barrett
Grades 12 and up
1985 March

A Fairly Conventional Woman
Carol Shields
Reviewed by Joan VanSickle
Grades 12 and up
1983 March

A Fairly Good Time
Mavis Gallant
Reviewed by Joan Kerrigan
Grades 12 and up
1984 May

Falling From Grace
Elly Van de Walle
Reviewed by donalee Moulton-Barrett
Post-Secondary
1985 January

Falling Out of Time
O.R. Melling
Reviewed by Brenda Watson
Grades 10 and up / Ages 15 and up
1989 September

Familiar Faces, Private Griefs
Susan Ioannou
Reviewed by Barbara J. Graham
Grades 12 and up
1986 July

Families of the World: Family Life at the Close of the 20 Century. Vol. 2, East Asia, Southeast Asia and the Pacific
Helene Tremblay
Reviewed by Graham Draper
Grade 7 and up / Ages 12 and up
1991 September

The Family Horse: How to Choose Care for, Train & Work Your Horse
Jackie Spaulding
Reviewed by Ingrid vonHausen
All Ages
1983 March

Family Without a Name
Jules Verne
Reviewed by JoAnna Burns Patton
Grades 9 and up
1983 September

Fantasy Government: Bill Vander Zalm and the Future of Social Credit
Stan Persky
Reviewed by Howard Hurt
Grades 12 and up / Ages 17 and up
1990 May

Farley Mowat: Writing the Squib
John Orange
Reviewed by Ellen Robson
Grades 7 and up / Ages 12 and up
1994 September

Farewell Tour
Virgil Burnett
Reviewed by Anne Locatelli
Grades 12 and up
1987 July

The Farm
Reuben Sallows
Reviewed by Walter Kalyn
Grades 7 and up / Ages 12 and up
1989 July

Farming the Frontier
James R. Gibson
Reviewed by Iyvan Michalchyshyn
Grades 12 and up
1986 July

The Far Side of the River: Selected Short Stories
Yaacov Zipper
Reviewed by Warner Winter
Grades 11 and up
1986 September

The Fat Lady Dances: Margaret Atwood's Lady Oracle
Margery Fee
Reviewed by Alan Thomas
Grades 10 and up / Ages 15 and up
1994 September

The Father
F. G. Paci
Reviewed by Boh Kinczyk
Grades 12 and up
1984 September

Fathers and Heroes
Brian MacKinnon
Reviewed by A. L. Florence
Grades 9 and up
1983 July

The Favorite
L. R. Wright
Reviewed by Jean Farquharson
Grades 11 and up
1984 March

Federal State, National Economy
Peter Leslie
Reviewed by Thoams F. Chambers
Grades 11 and up
1987 November

Feed Your Family with Love
Titia Sotebeer
Reviewed by Cheryl Bonowicz
Grades 11 and up
1982 September

Feeding Wild Birds in Winter
Clive Dobson
Reviewed by Elinor Kelly
All Ages
1983 July

Feldafing
Simon Schochet
Reviewed by A. Louise Nordin
Grades 10 and up
1984 March

Felice: A Travelogue
Robert Harlow
Reviewed by Barbara J. Graham
Grades 12 and up
1986 May

Feminist Organizing for Change: The Contemporary Women's Movement in Canada
Nancy Adamson with Linda Briskin and Margaret McPhail
Reviewed by donalee Moulton-Barrett
Grades 12 and up
1989 January

Fever
Sharon Butala
Reviewed by Joan McGrath
Grades 12 and up / Ages 17 and up
1991 March

Fifty Years After
John Gardam
Reviewed by Jack Brown
Grades 7 and up / Ages 12 and up
1991 March

Fighting the Farm Crisis
Terry Pugh (Edited by)
Reviewed by Catherine R. Cox
Grades 11 and up
1988 May

The Fighting Parson
C. H. Gervais
Reviewed by Pat Bolger
Grades 11 and up
1983 September

A Figure on the Move
Alastair Macdonald
Reviewed by Don Precosky
Grades 10 and up / Ages 15 and up
1991 October

The Financial Post Selects the 100 Best Companies to Work for in Canada
Eva Innes, Robert L. Perry and Jim Lyon
Reviewed by David Chadwick
Grades 10 and up
1986 September

Finding Home
Frances Duncan
Reviewed by Ellen Robson
Grades 9 and up
1983 July

The Fine Art of Murder
Anthony Quogan
Reviewed by Ted Monkhouse
Grades 10 and up
1989 January

A Fine and Private Place
Morley Callaghan
Reviewed by Boh Kinczyk
Grades 11 and up
1984 May

Fingerprints: A Collection of Mystery Stories by the Crime Writers of Canada
Reviewed by Ron Jacques
Grades 10 and up
1985 July

Fire Before Dark
George McWhirter
Reviewed by Phyllis James
Grades 11 and up
1984 September

Fire! Fire! / Ice Hawk
Martyn Godfrey
Reviewed by William F. Benson
Grades 7-12 / Ages 12-17
1986 March

A Fire in the Rain
Ron Atkinson
Reviewed by Hugh A. Cook
Grades 7 and up / Ages 12 and up
1992 March

Fire on Ice
Eric Lindros with Randy Starkman
Reviewed by Ed Sommerville
Grades 7 and up / Ages 12 and up
1992 May

Fire on the Water, Volume One
George E. Clarke
Reviewed by Joan McGrath
Grades 12 and up / Ages 17 and up
1992 March

Fire on the Water, Volume Two
George Elliott Clarke (Edited by)
Reviewed by Lillian M. Turner
Grades 11 and up / Ages 16 and up
1992 September

A First Class Funeral
Sonia Birch-Jones
Reviewed by Joan McGrath
Grades 12 and up
1984 November

First Lady, Last Lady
Sondra Gotlieb
Reviewed by Joan McGrath
Grades 12 and up
1982 September

First People, First Voices
Edited by Penny Petrone
Reviewed by David Chaddwick
Grades 9 and up
1984 March

First Person: A Biography of Cairine Wilson, Canada's First Woman Senator
Valerie Knowles
Reviewed by Gerri Young
Grades 12 and up
1989 January

Fish-Hooks: 13 Stories
Reg Silvester
Reviewed by Walter Kalyn
Adult
1985 January

Fish of the Atlantic
Ed Ricciuti
Reviewed by Reg Crossman
Grades 10 and up
1983 March

Fishin' Hats: a Collection of True Fish Stories
Gord Deval
Reviewed by Glenn P. Gerbrandt
Grades 9 and up
1983 September

Fishing for Angels: The Magic of Kites
David Evans
Reviewed by Joan M. Payzant
Grades 5 and up / Ages 10 and up
1991 September

Fishing With John
Edith Iglauer
Reviewed by Joan McGrath
Grades 12 and up
1989 January

Fit All Over
Richelle Bradshaw, Shirley Main and Gordon W. Stewart
Reviewed by Elizabeth Woodger
Grades 9 and up
1984 September

Fitness for the Disabled: Wheelchair Users
Jean Gairdner
Reviewed by Elizabeth Woodger
Grades 9 and up
1984 January

In Flanders Fields: The Story of John McCrae
John Prescott
Reviewed by Bohdan Kinezyk
Grades 10 and up / Ages 15 and up
1986 January

A Flannel Shirt & Liberty: British Emigrant Gentlewomen in the Canadian West 1880-1914
Susan Jackel (Edited by)
Reviewed by Adele Case
Grades 11 and up
1982 November

The Flare of a Match
Jim Young
Reviewed by Roy Babstock
Grades 10 and up
1984 May

Flash in the Pan
James Barber
Reviewed by Marilyn H. Kogon
Grades 11 and up
1982 September

Flashback Canada: New Edition
Bradley J. Cruxton and W. Douglas
Reviewed by Jerry McDonnell
Grades 7 to 10
1987 November

Fleecing the Lamb: The Inside Story of the Vancouver Stock Exchange
David Cruise and Alison Griffiths
Reviewed by John D. Crawford
Grades 10 and up
1988 July

Flight
Connie Brummel Crook
Reviewed by Darleen Golke
Grades 7 and up / Ages 12 and up
1992 May

Flight of the Falcon: Scott's Journey to the South Pole 1910-1912
J.A. Wainwright
Reviewed by Pat Bloger
Grades 12 and up
1988 May

Flitterin' Judas
Terry Crawford
Reviewed by Joan Kerrigan
Grades 12 and up
1986 March

Floating Schools and Frozen Inkwells
Joan Adams and Becky Thomas
Reviewed by Gerri Young
Grades 11 and up
1986 September

The Flying 400: Canada's Hydrofoil Project
Thomas G. Lynch
Reviewed by Neil Payne
Grades 12 and up
1984 September

Flying Deeper into the Century
Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
Reviewed by Pat Bolger
Grades 12 and up
1982 November

The Flying Dinosaurs: The Illustrated Guide to the Evolution of Flight
Currie, Philip J.
Reviewed by Peter Croskery
Grades 12 and up / Ages 17 and up
1992 September

Folktales of the Canadian Sephardim
André E. Elbaz
Reviewed by Meguido Zola
Grades 11 and up
1983 July

Fools Errant
Matt Hughes
Reviewed by Melanie Fogel
Grades 10 and up / Ages 15 and up
1994 September

Footprints
Margaret Fishback Powers
Reviewed by Edith Parsons
Grades 9 and up/Ages 14 and up
1993 September

Forbidden City
William Bell
Reviewed by Elinor Kelley
Grades 9 and up / Ages 14 and up
1990 July

For the Back of a Likeness
Robert Finch
Reviewed by Pat Bolger
Grades 12 and up
1987 March

For Every Man an Island
Helen Porter
Reviewed by Louise Griffith
Grades 10 and up
1983 March

...For Land's Sake
David M. Welch
Reviewed by Michael Ball
Grades 9 and up
1982 September

Forced March to Freedom: An Illustrated Diary of Two Forced Marches and the Interval Between January to May 1945
Robert Buckham
Reviewed by Alfred F. Greenwood
Grades 9 and up
1985 March

Forcing the Edge
Kurt Browning
Reviewed by Irene Gordon
Grades 6 and up/Ages 11 and up
1993 March

Foreign Affairs
Keith Fraser
Reviewed by Patrick Dunn
Grades 12 and up
1986 September

Foreigners
Barbara Sapergia
Reviewed by George Hoffman
Grades 10 and up
1985 March

The Forests of British Columbia
Cameron Young and others
Reviewed by Adele Case
Grades 9 and up
1986 May

Forgetting How to Fly
Mark Lowey
Reviewed by Tony Cosier
Grades 10 and up
1987 September

For the Love of Music
Ulla Colgrass
Grades 10 and Up
Reviewed by Walter Kalyn
Grades 10 and up
1989 January

Formaldehyde On Trial: the Politics of Health in a Chemical Society
Lloyd Tataryn
Reviewed by John D. Crawford
Grades 11 and up
1984 May

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For Singing and Dancing and All Sorts of Fun: The story of the Ottawa Valley's Most Famous Song
Sheldon I. Posen
Reviewed by Jack Brown
Grades 10 and up
1989 January

Fort Steele: Here History Lives
Derryll White
Reviewed by Iyvan Michalchyshyn
Grades 10 and up
1988 November

Fortune & La Tour: the Civil War in Acadia
M. A. MacDonald
Reviewed by Catherine Cox
Grades 10 and up
1983 September

Fortunes in the Ground: Cobalt Porcupine & Kirkland Lake
Michael Barnes
Reviewed by Neil V. Payne
Grades 9 and up
1987 July

Forty Nights to Freedom: The True Prisoner Commander Stewart F. Cowan (Ret.)
Gladys E. Smith
Reviewed by Alfred F. Greenwood
Grades 9 and up
1985 September

The Fossil Cliffs of Joggins
Laing Ferguson
Reviewed by Neil V. Payne
Grades 11 and up / Ages 16 and up
1989 July

Foul Balls: Five Years in the American League
Alison Gordon
Reviewed by Michael Freeman
Grades 10 and up
1985 March

Foundations of Modern Sociology. Canadian 4th Ed.
Metta Spencer
Reviewed by Ruth Rausa
Grades 12 and up
1985 November

The Fountain Seal
Margaret Epp
Reviewed by Elaine Blakey
Grades 9 and up
1983 November

Fox
Margaret Sweatman
Reviewed by Louis Reimer
Grades 12 and up /Ages 17 and up
1991 September

Fragile Freedoms: Human Rights and Dissent in Canada
Thomas R. Berger
Reviewed by Donald M. Santor
Grades 11 and up
1982 September

The Fragile Lights of Earth: Articles and Memories 1942-1970
Gabrielle Roy
Reviewed by Linda May Bell
Grades 11 and up
1982 November

A Fragile Tree has Roots: a Collection of Poetry
John C. Walker
Reviewed by Patrick Dunn
Grades 9 and up
1983 September

Frank H. Underhill: Intellectual Provocateur
Francis R. Douglas
Reviewed by Thomas F. Chambers
Grades 12 and up
1986 September

Frank Sobey: The Man and the Empire
Harry Bruce
Reviewed by James Kingstone
Grades 11 and up
1985 November

The Fraser Valley: A History
John A. Cherrington
Reviewed by John D. Crawford
Grades 9 and up / Ages 14 and up
1993 November

Frederick H. Varley
Peter Varley
Reviewed by Gary Robertson
Grades 11 and up
1984 September

Freefall: A True Story
William Hoffer and Marilyn Mona Hoffer
Reviewed by Lynne McAvoy
Grades 9 and up / Ages 14 and up
1989 July

Free Trade Deal: Independent and Authoritative Assessments
Ducan Cameron (Edited by)
Grades 12 and up
Reviewed by Howard Hurt
Grades 12 and up
1989 January

Free Trade, Free Canada--How Free Trade Will Make Canada Stronger: Insights by Distinguised Canadians
Earle Gray (Edited by)
Reviewed by Howard Hurt
Grades 11 and up
1988 November

A Friend in Barcelona
Edited by Scott Mackay
Reviewed by Ellen Robson
Grades 12 and up / Ages 17 and up
1991 September

Friendly Aliens: Thirteen Stories of the Fantastic Set in Canada by Foreign Authors
John Robert Colombo (Edited by)
Reviewed by Robert Lamoureux
Grades 10 and up
1982 November

From Bourassa to Bourassa
L. Ian MacDonald
Reviewed by Robert Nicholas Bérard
Grades 11 and up
1986 January

From the Country: Writings About Rural Canada
Edited by Wayne Grady
Reviewed by Katheryn Broughton
Grades 12 and up / Ages 17 and up
1991 September

From a High Thin Wire
Joan Clark
Reviewed by Tony Cosier
Grades 11 and up
1983 May

From Ink Lake: Canadian Stories
Edited by Michael Ondaatje
Reviewed by Fred Leicester
Grades 11 and up / Ages 16 and up
1991 March

From Land to Mouth: Understanding the Food System
Brewster Kneen
Reviewed by Marilyn Aldworth
Grades 10 and up / Ages 15 and up
1989 September

From the Praries With Hope
Jane L. Aberson
Reviewed by Charles Ottosen
Grades 8 and up / Ages 13 and up
1992 March

Frommer's Dollarwise Guide to Canada
Tom Brosnahan, John Godwin and Marilyn Wood
Reviewed by David Young
Grades 11 and up
1982 November

Fruits of the Earth
Frederick Philip Grove
Reviewed by Alan Thomas
Grades 10 and up / Ages 15 and up
1990 January

Fur Trade to Free Trade: Putting the Canada-U.S. Trade Agreement in Historical Perspective
Randall White
Reviewed by John D. Crawford
Grades 10 and up
1989 January

Fury
David Watmough
Reviewed by Boh Kinczyk
Grades 12 and up
1985 March

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