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Author: Karleen Bradford
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Dec 1996
Children`s Books
by Susan Charron
It is 1096, at the time of the First Crusade. The young hero, Theobald, is off to liberate Jerusalem from the Turks. He has just been knighted, and is honourable, loyal, and courageous. Other main characters are Amalric, another young knight, and Emma, Read more...
| Nov 1992
Children's Books - Live and Learn
by Pat Barclay
All nine novels are competently written. Attention has been paid to the development of reasonably rounded characters. Inner and outer conflicts abound and each novel has some distinguishing features that make it special. Read more...
| May 2002
Children's Books
by Karen Krossing
Award-winning authors Karleen Bradford and Carol Matas have written the latest in the Dear Canada series of fictional diaries, which began last year with Sarah Ellis's Prairie as Wide as the Sea and Jean Little's Orphan at My Door. Each of these beautiful imitation diaries includes a ribbon bookmark and historical notes and photos. Read more...
| Jul 2001
 | Whisperings of Magic
by Karleen Bradford
HarperCollins
184 pages $14 trade paperback
ISBN: 0006485758
|  | Stones
by William Bell
Doubleday Canada
218 pages $16.95 trade paperback
ISBN: 038565829X
|  | The War Within
by Carol Matas
Scholastic Canada
152 pages $18.99 cloth
ISBN: 0439988101
| |  | The Gramma War
by Kristen Butcher
Orca Book Publishers
170 pages $8.95 trade paperback
ISBN: 1551431831
|  | In the Clear
by Anne Laurel Carter
Orca Book Publishers
138 pages $8.95 trade paperback
ISBN: 1551431920
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Children's Books
by Jeffrey Canton
2001 looks to be yet another exciting year for children's books in Canada with exciting new offerings by William Bell, Karleen Bradford and Carol Matas among the new spring fiction releases as well as new picture books by Ludmila Zeman, Veronika Martenova Charles and Mireille Levert. Read more...
| Dec 2004
 | Angeline
by Karleen Bradford
Harper Collins Canada $15.99 Paperback
ISBN: 0006393438
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A Review of: Angeline
by O.R. Melling
The title and theme immediately put me in mind of the Angelique books
which my friends and I read avidly (and surreptitiously) in high
school. Though not of the same racy nature, this works the same
territory of historical fiction with an exotic setting, romantic tone,
and compelling characters. You know it's a good story when you forsake
the day's tasks and curl up on the sofa to read till you are finished.
Both my teen reader and I fell under its spell.
One is immediately drawn into the book and sympathetic to Angeline as
she stands on the block in an Egyptian slave market, after
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