New Releases by Beth Goobie

"In this unusual story Carol can see other dimensions, read people''s thoughts and influence their energy. She struggles between good and evil, and learns to claim her personal identity" Cf. Our choice, 1999-2000.

"When the town council imposes a curfew to straighten out everyone under 18, they didn''t anticipate that Dariel would mobilize an opposition that would reveal the adults'' hypocrisies" Cf. Our choice, 1998-1999.

YA. Sharon has no self-confidence. After moving to a new school she finds safety in friendship and for the first time ever she is free to examine the truth behind the names her family has called her for as long as she can remember. 11 yrs+

Nominee, Governor General''s Literary Award for Children''s Literature - Text Jill Gilbert doesn''t like the high school Lovely Legs Contest. For one thing, it''s sponsored by the football team headed by her brother. For another, the school newspaper she writes for came up with the idea. But more important, it boils her blood that guys like her brother make so many assumptions about what girls like. So why does she end up entering the competition? Maybe for the same reason she tried out for the football team. Maybe for the same reason she''s obsessed with the movie The Mission. Jill is nobody''s pushover. Mission Impossible is a tough sensitive teen novel. Jill, the narrator, is wickedly funny and heartbreakingly honest as she wrestles with sexism in her school and demons in her head. She comes close to going over the edge in more ways than one but triumphs in a way she could never have predicted. Right now, though, she''s stuck in a jungle of tangled thoughts and leg hairs on what seems like an impossible mission.

A collection of narrative poems tracing the surface memory of an abused child, and unearthing the terror found in ordinary places such as parks and playgrounds and piano lessons in the front room.