BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE

This article discusses several book by Steve Pitt, including:

Rain Tonight - a Tale of Hurricane Hazel. They predicted a few centimetres of rain. What they got was a three-meter high wall of rushing water. In this true tale of horror and heroism, nine-year-old Penny Doucette and her family are trapped in a flash flood and their lives depend on the death defying courage of strangers. Non-fiction.Ages 8 to 12.

Guyness: Deal with it body and soul. Tradition tells boys they have to be tough but society now tells boys it is okay to be gentle and sensitive. Using cartoons and quizzes, this book explores the changing perception of what it means to be male. Non-fiction. Ages 7 to 10.

Teasing: Deal with it before the joke's on you! Everyone likes a good laugh but there is a fine line between being a hit and being a twit. Using humour, cartoons and quizzes, this book helps young readers understand why some things are funny and others are not. Non-fiction. Ages 7 to 10.

To Stand and Fight Together: Richard Pierpoint and the Coloured Corps of Upper Canada. In 1812, Black Loyalist Richard Pierpoint helped form an all-Black military unit that fought bravely for Canada during the War of 1812. This book explores nearly 200 years of Blacks in the Canadian military. Non-fiction. Ages 8 and up.

Day of the Flying Fox. Spitfire pilot Charley Fox was already carving out an impressive career as a ground attack pilot during World War Two. By an ironic twist of fate, German General Erwin Rommel, the famous Desert Fox, crossed paths with Charley and the General's famous uck rank out. Non fiction. Ages 8 and up.

Faster than Wind. In 1907, young Bertie McCross takes up ice boat racing partly to win prize money, partly to impress a beautiful girl and partly to stay out of the clutches of the Kellys, a Toronto street gang who want to hurt him very much. Based on real events, this novel is a humorous look at the underbelly of Edwardian Toronto. Fiction, ages 10 and up.

The Honourable Athletes is a charming book that imagines what would happen if  animals held their own Olympics. Readers are introduced to Carlo Jones Coyote, who runs the Marathon, even though Everyone knows coyotes are sprinters, not pacers, Anisette Thorbjornsdottir Arctic-Fox, from Iceland, who doesn’t allow injury stop her from competing in snowboarding, and Denis Rebazov Silver-Fox, a black-furred Russian fox, born of red-furred parents, who’s determined to prove that it’s not what colour your fur is that’s important, but what’s in your heart.

Ideal for younger children, this book was written by Neven Humphrey, an Ottawa author whose non-fiction titles include Black Glasses and White Canes: 50 Stories of Triumph Despite Visual Disabilities and Guide Dogs and GPS: More Stories of Triumph Despite Visual Disabilities, which he wrote for the Canadian Council of the Blind. 

Helena Katz's books are for both young adults and adult readers):        www.katzcommunications.ca/
        The Mad Trapper: The Incredible Tale of a Famous Canadian Manhunt  (Altitude Publishing, 2004)     This is the incredible story of Canada’s largest manhunt. Hundreds of men spent 7 weeks tracking the         elusive Albert Johnson for 240 kilometres across the frozen North. By the time he was caught and killed,       he had seriously wounded two of his pursuers and murdered a third one. The identity of Albert Johnson,          the Mad Trapper of Rat River, remains a mystery to this day.

       Gang Wars: Blood and Guts on the Streets of Early New York  (Altitude Publishing, 2005)
Throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the streets of New York were overrun with a
 succession of brutal gangs. For nearly 100 years, these gangs terrorized Lower Manhattan, doling out 
 violence with bludgeons, pistols, fists, and teeth. Whether members of the city's early gangs were striving
 for power, out for revenge, or seeking riches, their activities almost always resulted in bloody warfare
 and horrific loss of life.

Pirates of Nirado River: A Thunder Bay Adventure, by Michael Setala, River Rocks Publishing.

Sir John S. D. Thompson: The Pushover Who Died Too Soon, By Elle Andra-Warner, Jackfruit Press.