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Grades 10 and up

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Ladybug, Ladybug...
W.O. Mitchell
Reviewed by Elaine Balpataky
Adult
1989 March

The Lady Who Didn't Believe in Dinosaurs and Other Stories
Frederic C. Ford
Reviewed by Joan VanSickle Heaton
Grades 12 and up
1985 September

Lady With Chains
Roch Carrier
Reviewed by Chris Kempling
Grades 12 and up
1985 January

The Lady's Maid
Nella Benson
Reviewed by Joan McGrath
Grades 10 and up
1982 November

Laird of the West
John W. Chalmers
Reviewed by Frank Karas
Grades 11 and up
1982 September

Land of Earth and Sky: Landscape Painting of Western Canada
Ronald Rees
Reviewed by Walter Kalyn
Grades 9 and up
1985 September

The Land of Lost Content: A History of Cuso
Ian Smillie
Reviewed by Algis Tribinevicius
Grades 12 and up
1986 July

The Last Children of Schevenborn
Gudrun Pausewang
Reviewed by Joan McGraw
Adult
1989 January

The Last of the Crazy People
Timothy Findley
Reviewed by Clare A. Darby
Grades 10 and up
1984 September

Last of the Curlews
Fred Bodsworth
Reviewed by Pat Bolger
Grades 7 and up / Ages 12 and up
1992 January

The Last Great Frontiersman: the Remarkable Adventures of Tom Lamb
Leland Stowe
Reviewed by Gerri Young
Grades 11 and up
1984 March

Last Makings
Earle Birney
Reviewed by Alan Thomas
Grades 10 and up / Ages 15 and up
1991 November

The Last Map is the Heart: An Anthology
Edited by Paddy O'Rourke, et al.
Reviewed by Catherine R. Cox
Grades 9 and up / Ages 14 and up
1990 January

Last Message to Berlin: A Novel
Philippe Van Rjndt
Reviewed by Ron Jaques
Grades 11 and up
1985 January

The Last Tasmanian
Curtis Herb
Reviewed by Katheryn Broughton
Grades 11 and up / Ages 16 and up
1992 September

The Latest Morningside Papers
Peter Gzowski
Reviewed by Joan McGrath
Grades 12 and up / Ages 17 and up
1990 March

Latin is Alive and Well: A Handbook for Students
B. C. Taylor
Reviewed by Louise Dick
Grades 9 and up
1984 January

Laurier, The First Canadian
Joseph Schull
Reviewed by Jerry McDonnell
Grades 11 and up
1987 July

The Lawn Jockey
Aislin
Reviewed by Warner Winter
Grades 9 and up / Ages 14 and up
1990 March

Laws of Emotion
Alison Lohans
Reviewed by Judy Baxter
Grades 9 and up/Ages 14 and up
1993 October

Layton Reads Layton
Irving Layton
Reviewed by Sharon Singer
Grades 11 and up
1984 May

Leacock: A Biography
Albert Moritz and Theresa Moritz
Reviewed by Joan McGrath
Grades 10 and up
1985 September

Lean Wind, Lean: A Few Times Remembered
David Walker
Reviewed by James Kingstone
Grades 10 and up
1985 May

Learn to Type: Completely New, Easy Method for Beginners
Barbara Aliaga
Reviewed by E. C. Beard
Grades 9 and up
1983 May

Learning From Our History: Community Development by Immigrant Women in Ontario, 1958-1986. A Tool For Action
Tania Das Gupta
Reviewed by Lois Hird
Grades 10 and up
1987 July

Learning a Living in Canada, Volume 1: Background and Perspectives
Reviewed by Roger Lang
Grades 9 and up
1984 May

Learning a Living in Canada, Volume 2: Policy Options for the Nation
Reviewed by Roger Lang
Grades 9 and up
1984 May

Learning Strategies and Examination Preparation
Joe J. Danyluk
Reviewed by JoAnna B. Patton
Grades 9 and up
1986 January

The Legacy
Claire Martin
Reviewed by Margaret MacLean
Grades 12 and up
1986 September

Legacy: The Natural History of Ontario
Edited by John Theberge
Reviewed by Elinor Kelly
Grades 10 and up / Ages 15 and up
1990 January

A Legionnaire's Journey
Leslie Aparvary
Reviewed by Jean Farquharson
Grades 9 and up / Ages 14 and up
1990 January

Lemon-Aid: Used Car Guide 1982: Best Buys, Lemons, Confidential Prices, Rusting Diagrams
Phil Edmonston
Reviewed by Donna Kenwell
Grades 10 and up
1982 November

Leopard in the Afternoon: An African Tenting Safari
Christopher Ondaatje
Reviewed by Barbara Camfield
Grades 6 and up / Ages 11 and up
1990 January

Les Grandes Confidances
Jean-Marie Poupart
Reviewed by Patricia Cooper
Grades 7 and up / Ages 12 and up
1992 January

Lessons From the Past: From Dief to Mulroney
Heward Grafftey
Reviewed by Neil V. Payne
Grades 10 and up
1987 September

Les Yeux D'Emeraude
Denis Cote
Reviewed by Lou-Ann Layton
Grades 7 and up/Ages 12 and up
1992 May

Let's Die Living: Exploring the World With CESO
Vivienne Clarke
Reviewed by Anne Locatelli
Grades 10 and up
1984 May

Let's Hear It For Them
Charles Noble
Reviewed by Ian Dempsey
Grades 12 and up / Ages 17 and up
1991 March

Let's Play Ball! Inside the Perfect Game
William Humber
Reviewed by Walter Kalyn
Grades 8 and up / Ages 13 and up
1989 July

The Letter
Gunther W. Plaut
Reviewed by Joan McGrath
Grades 12 and up
1986 November

Letters from a Lady Rancher
Monica Hopkins
Reviewed by Elaine Atwood
Grades 9 and up
1983 March

Letters from a Young Emigrant in Manitoba
Edward ffolkes
Reviewed by Patrick Wright
Grades 11 and up
1982 November

Letters Home 1859-1906
William Blair Bruce
Reviewed by Carrie Gardner
Grades 10 and up
1983 May

Letters of a Businessman to His Daughter
G. Kingsley Ward
Reviewed by David Chadwick
Grades 9 and up / Ages 14 and up
1989 July

Letters of a Lifetime
Susanna Moodie
Reviewed by Joan Kerrigan
Grades 12 and up
1986 May

Letters From Windermere, 1912-1914
Daisy Phillips
Reviewed by Mary Fallis
Grades 12 and up
1985 July

Let Us Rise!: A History of the Manitoba Labour Movement
Doug Smith
Reviewed by Ron Rennie
Grades 10 and up
1986 January

Liberation Deferred&: the Ideas of the English Canadian Suffragists, 1877-1918
Carol Lee Bacchi
Reviewed by donalee Moulton-Barrett
Grades 12 and up
1983 May

Liberties
Edited by John Russell
Reviewed by John Bainbridge
Grades 11 and up / Ages 16 and up
1990 May

Life Before Stratford: The Memoirs of Amelia Hall
Edited by Diane Mew
Reviewed by Louise Dick
Grades 9 and up / Ages 14 and up
1990 May

Life Career Planning: Reaching for Your Future
David Studd
Reviewed by Alma Webster
Grades 9-12
1986 January

Life in the Clearings
Susanna Moodie
Reviewed by Joanne Peters
Grades 11 and up / Ages 16 and up
1989 November

Life Insurance and You: a Handbook for Consumer Protection
William E. McLeod
Reviewed by Dennis Nosyk
Grades 12 and up
1982 September

Life Math 3
Reviewed by Andrew Pope
Grades 9-11
1983 January

The Life of Hope
Paul Quarrington
Reviewed by Jerry McDonnell
Grades 12 and up
1986 January

Life of the Party
Gérard Fortin and Boyce Richardson
Reviewed by Howard Hurt
Grades 12 and up
1986 May

The Life of a River
Andy Russell
Reviewed by Mary Fallis
Grades 9 and up
1988 July

Life of the Party: The Memoirs of Eddie Goodman
Eddie Goodman
Reviewed by Thomas F. Chambers
Grades 10 and up/Ages 15 and up
1989 May

Life, Love and Unions
Helen Potrebenko
Reviewed by Barbara J. Graham
Grades 11 and up
1988 May

Life's Odd Moments
Stuart Trueman
Reviewed by Lillian M. Turner
Grades 11 and up
1985 March

Light of Burning Towers
Gary Geddes
Reviewed by Ian Dempsey
Grades 11 and up / Ages 16 and up
1990 November

Lightfoot: If You Could Read His Mind
Maynard Collins
Reviewed by Jean Farqueharson
Grades 10 and up / Ages 15 and up
1989 September

The Listeners
George McWhirter
Reviewed by Ellen Robson
Grades 7 and up / Ages 12 and up
1991 October

A Literacy and Linguistic History of New Brunswick
Reavley Gair (Edited by)
Reviewed by Ruth Cosstick
Grades 12 and up
1986 September

Literary Lapses
Stephen Leacock
Reviewed by Pat Bolger
Grades 7 and up / Ages 12 and up
1989 September

A Little Wilderness: the Natural History of Toronto
Bill Ivy
Reviewed by Hugh A. Cook
All Ages
1983 November

The Liveable City: the Architecture and Neighbourhoods of Toronto
Leon Whiteson
Reviewed by Joan McGrath
Grades 10 and up
1983 May

The Lively Spirits of Provence
Jamie Brown
Reviewed by Elvira D. Gosselin
Grades 9 and up
1982 November

Lives of the Princesses of Wales
Arthur Bousfield, Mary Beacock Fryer and Garry Toffoli
Reviewed by Janet E. Goldack
Grades 9 and up
1984 May

Living the Part: John Drainie and the Dilemma of Canadian Stardom
Bronwyn Drainie
Reviewed by Louise Griffith
Grades 11 and up
1989 January

The Living Past of Montréal
Eric McLean
Reviewed by Melanie Fogel
Grades 5 and up / Ages 10 and up
1994 May/June

Local Boy Makes Good: Three Musicals by John Gray
John Gray
Reviewed by Bessie Egan
Grades 9 and up
1989 January

The Logger's Digest: From Horses to Helicopters
Barry Coulson
Reviewed by Adele Case
Grades 7 and up/ Ages 12 and up
1993 May

The Long Distance Feeling: a History of the Telecommunications Workers Union
Elaine Bernard
Reviewed by John D. Crawford
Grades 11 and up
1983 May

Long Lance: the True Story of an Imposter
Donald B. Smith
Reviewed by Frank Karas
Grades 10 and up
1982 November

A Long and Lonely Ride
Helen Fogwell Porter
Reviewed by Barbara Camfield
Grades 9 and up / Ages 14 and up
1991 September

A Long Night of Death
Alberto Balcarce
Reviewed by E. Robson
Grades 12 and up
1987 March

The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
Brian Moore
Reviewed by Donna Doyle
Grades 10 and up
1989 January

The Long Road Home: the Autobiography of a Canadian Soldier in World War II
Fred Cederberg
Reviewed by Alfred F. Greenwood
Grades 11 and up
1984 November

Loneliness
Reuven P. Bulka
Reviewed by Ruth Rausa
Grades 9 and up
1985 July

Looking for Livingstone: An Odyssey of Silence
Marlene Nourbese Philip
Reviewed by donalee Moulton
Grades 10 and up / Ages 15 and up
1992 March

Look! The Land is Growing Giants
Joan Finnigan
Reviewed by Jack Brown
All Ages
1985 January

Lost Toronto: Images of the City's Past
William Dendy
Reviewed by Marsha Kaiserman
Grades 11 and up/Ages 16 and up
1993 October

A Lot to Make Up For
John Buell
Reviewed by Patricia J. Cooper
Grades 11 and up / Ages 16 and up
1990 November

Lotfi Mansouri and Operatic Life
Lotfi Mansouri
Reviewed by Bessie Condos
Grades 11 and up
1983 May

Lotions, Potions and Liniments Pure: a Look at the Drug Trade in Winnipeg in the 1900s
Joseph E. Wilder
Reviewed by A. L. Florence
Grades 12 and up
1983 September

Lotta and the Unitarian Service Committee Story
Clyde Sanger
Reviewed by Louise Dick
Grades 10 and up
1986 July

Louis Dudek: A Biographical Introduction to His Poetry
Susan Stromberg-Stein
Reviewed by Alan Thomas
Grades 12 and up
1986 January

Louis Riel
Rosemary Neering
Reviewed by Gerri Young
Grades 7-10/Ages 12-15
1993 September

Louis Robichaud: a Decade of Power
Della M. M. Stanley
Reviewed by Catherine R. Cox
Grades 10 and up
1984 November

Louisbourg Portraits: Life in an Eighteenth-Century Garrison Town
Christopher Moore
Reviewed by Robert Nicholas Bérard
Grades 11 and up
1983 January

Love in Flight
Gregory M. Cook
Reviewed by Tony Cosier
Grades 9 and up
1986 May

Love and Salt Water
Ethel Wilson
Reviewed by Catherine R. Cox
Grades 10 and up / Ages 15 and up
1991 March

Love and Whiskey
Betty Lee
Reviewed by Marion Mintis
Grades 12 and up
1983 September

Love You Forever
Robert Munsch
Reviewed by André Gagnon
Kindergarten-Adult / Ages 5 and up
1987 March

The Loved and the Lost
Morley Callaghan
Reviewed by Boh Kinczyk
Grades 11 and up
1984 May

Love's Sweet Return: The Harlequin Story
Margaret Ann Jensen
Reviewed by Valerie Hudson
Grades 11 and up
1985 January

A Loving Legacy
Eleanor Thomson
Reviewed by Pamela Douglas
Grades 11 and up
1988 January

The Loyal Americans: the Military Role of the Loyalist Provincial Corps and Their Settlement in British North American, 1775-1784
Reviewed by Jack Brown
Grades 9 and up
1983 November

The Loyalist Governor: Biography of Sir John Wentworth
Brian C. Cuthbertson
Reviewed by Robert Nicholas Bérard
Grades 11 and up
1984 March

The Loyalists: Revolution, Exile, Settlement
Christopher Moore
Reviewed by Robert Nicholas Berard
Grades 11 and up
1985 July

The Luck of Ginger Coffey
Brian Moore
Reviewed by Jerry McDonnell
Grades 11 and up
1989 January

Lumbering Songs from the Northern Woods
Edith Fowke
Reviewed by Mollie Hooper
Grades 10 and up
1986 May

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