This is me, dressed up for the Children’s Caribana parade one year in Parkdale:
A few Strange Times at Western High-related items have appeared online recently:
- There’s an excerpt running on the rabble.ca Book Lounge, for its Halloween-related edition focusing on alternative mysteries.
- A teen librarian at the Richmond B.C. library system selected it as Book of the Month.
- The folks at Young People’s Press have been kind enough to post a promotional piece about the book, written by Annick Press’ marketing manager.
Meriting its own paragraph is a review that’s in CM Magazine:
Emily Pohl-Weary is in the process of creating a cultural phenomenon for today’s teen girl readers. Her heroine, Natalie Fuentes, is smart, feisty, and unafraid to be an original in a school dominated by skinny blonds in miniskirts. (more…)

