BOOKS by MEMBERS A Girl Called Tennyson by Joan Givner thistledown press
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Bethan, who understands the enemy's weaknesses and offers Tenn resources and information that can help her on her mission. Tenn is eventually successful in finding Una but soon discovers that there are many more children who must be saved and that her quest has just begun.
This classic fantasy quest from established YA author Joan Givner takes readers on an adventure where her hero's love of poetry, story and rhyme will give her the edge to succeed. Anne Tennyson Miller's adventure begins during an ordinary west coast ferry trip, but reality soon melts away as she is transported to the fantasy land of Greensward. Once in Greensward, Tenn is elected by the distraught citizens to rescue her new friend, Una, who has been spirited away to a nearby country occupied by evil forces determined to destroy the harmony of Greensward. Before she sets out on her dangerous mission she is trained by the wise woman,
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Joan Givner is a former English professor at the University of Regina. She is the author of the Ellen Fremedon series (Groundwood), and has published biographies of Katherine Anne Porter and Mazo de la Roche, as well as an autobiography. She is the winner of the 1992 CBC fiction competition.
An Englishman's Daughter by William Wardill Benchmark Press
The book begins with a paleo-Indian hunter, proceeds through two world wars, the prelude to the settlement period, the creation of a hybrid society by people who came from other places, and finally, to a community in danger of losing the railway tracks which have been the reason for its presence on the map of Saskatchewan. Wardill, an 82-year-old historian, columnist, and Athabasca University alumni, is no stranger to writing. He has written over 20 self-published books which include creative non-fiction, fiction, and poetry
May/June 2011