Children and YA Fiction

Meranda and the Legend of the Lake

Family secrets, fantastical beings, and authentic identities rise to the surface in Meranda and the Legend of the Lake, an absorbing middle-grade novel by Calgary-based debut author and pediatric intensive care physician Meagan Mahoney. The ... Read More »

January 18, 2022 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Friends Are Friends, Forever

By Dane Liu and Lynn Scurfield; ill.

From Andrea Wang and Jason Chin’s Watercress to Thao Lam’s The Paper Boat to Chris Naylor-Ballesteros’s The Suitcase, explorations of the immigrant experience with messages about sharing kindness and the importance of love have found ... Read More »

January 12, 2022 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

★ The Last Beautiful Girl

By Nina Laurin

Sixteen-year-old Isabella (Isa) Brixton, the protagonist of Montreal writer Nina Laurin’s chilling young-adult debut, is at the top of the world. She’s a popular junior at her Brooklyn high school, with close friends, understanding teachers, ... Read More »

December 14, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

★ Tahira in Bloom

By Farah Heron

Tahira Janmohammad has a plan: build her social media brand, catch the eye of style influencers, get into New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology, and make her House of Tahira fashion line a reality. When ... Read More »

December 6, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

The Degrees of Barley Lick

By Susan Flanagan

Formerly a couple, Barley and Phyllis, expert teenage geocachers (individuals who search for hidden objects using GPS coordinates) now compete as bitter rivals in geocache competitions. To make matters worse, Barley continues to grieve the ... Read More »

November 24, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Stealing Home

By J. Torres; David Namisato (ill.)

Told from the perspective of Sandy, a young baseball fan whose family is uprooted and transported to an internment camp by the Canadian government after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Stealing Home shows young ... Read More »

November 22, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Death & Sparkles

By Rob Justus

Rob Justus’s latest graphic novel is about Sparkles, universally famous and adored, and Death, loathed by humankind. When Death arrives at a bustling metropolis to claim the soul of Sparkles, the last unicorn, an adventure ... Read More »

November 10, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Jamilah at the End of the World

By Mary-Lou Zeitoun

Thanks to David Suzuki and a news clip about a “Totally Awful American Hurricane,” 17-year-old Jamilah Monsour is convinced a climate disaster is imminent. She starts stockpiling supplies and converts her family’s garage into a ... Read More »

October 5, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

The Undercover Book List

By Colleen Nelson

A secret note hidden in a favourite book in the school library. A bookish girl looking for a new best friend. A restless prankster who dislikes reading. These are the ingredients in Colleen Nelson’s The ... Read More »

September 29, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Sorry for Your Loss

By Joanne Levy

From classics by E.B. White and Katherine Paterson to contemporary novels by Eric Walters and Ali Benjamin, the subject of death is something that children’s fiction is unafraid to explore. The rituals following death, however, ... Read More »

September 27, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

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