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  • "The Terror That is Everywhere" Read an Excerpt from A Knife in the Sky, Marie-Célie Agnant's Story of Haiti’s Brutal Despot
    "The Terror That is Everywhere" Read an Excerpt from A Knife in the Sky, Marie-Célie Agnant's Story of Haiti’s Brutal Despot
    June 07, 2022

    "The Terror That is Everywhere" Read an Excerpt from A Knife in the Sky, Marie-Célie Agnant's Story of Haiti’s Brutal Despot

    Prize winning Haitian-Québécoise writer Marie-Célie Agnant is celebrated for her rich, complex, moving portraits of women living through colonial power structures. Elegant in its examinations of ...

  • Monique Polak on Helping Kids Find Themselves While Exploring Parental Alienation in Her New Middle Grade Book
    Monique Polak on Helping Kids Find Themselves While Exploring Parental Alienation in Her New Middle Grade Book
    February 22, 2022

    Monique Polak on Helping Kids Find Themselves While Exploring Parental Alienation in Her New Middle Grade Book

    Everything in Justine's world has changed since her parents got divorced. She and her little sister Bea travel across Montreal from one house to the other, living two lives. But when Justine's mother ...

  • Andrée Poulin Tackles Period Stigma in Her Beautiful New Verse Novel for Young Readers
    Andrée Poulin Tackles Period Stigma in Her Beautiful New Verse Novel for Young Readers
    November 11, 2021

    Andrée Poulin Tackles Period Stigma in Her Beautiful New Verse Novel for Young Readers

    Andrée Poulin's Burying the Moon (Groundwood Books, illustrated by Sonali Zohra) tells the story of a young Indian girl whose courage changes the lives of all the girls and women in her village. In ...

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