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Benjamin Lefebvre (he/him) lives in Kitchener, Ontario. His edited books include the three-volume critical anthology The L.M. Montgomery Reader and a set of books that collect Montgomery’s extensive shorter works, most recently Twice upon a Time: Selected Stories, 1898–1939. This fall, he published his first novel In the Key of Dale, (Arsenal Pulp Press), the story of a queer sixteen-year-old music prodigy who starts writing letters to his father, as well as short stories in The Ant...

Sixteen-year-old Dale Cardigan is a musical prodigy, plain and simple. He aced his latest Royal Conservatory exam. He plays the organ at the local church for pocket money. He plays piano at his lesbian friends’ wedding for fun. He sings in a choir with his uncle for quality family time. And he plays violin ...

As Long as the Lemon Tree Grows Zoulfa Katouh Little, Brown Books for Young Readers/Hachette, Sept. When the wounded begin to flood the hospital in Homs where she volunteers, Salama Kaassab must decide between her conviction to survive and loyalty to her country in this speculative novel set amid the Syrian Revolution. Road of the

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A Labour of Love The Whole Singing Ocean by Jessica Moore Benjamin Lefebvre (Editor) The L. M. Montgomery Reader: Volume One: A Life in Print.University of Toronto Press (purchase at Amazon.ca) “Children are refreshing. Stories about them are,” L. M. Montgomery told the reporter of the Boston Traveler in 1910 during her visit to that city. After the instant international success of her 1908 novel Anne of Green Gables, and aided by her Boston publisher L. C. Page and Company, Montgo...