Children and YA Fiction

Long Distance

Over a year into a global pandemic that continues to shape our daily lives, this new middle-grade graphic novel from Whitney Gardner takes a timely look at what it means to be kept apart from ... Read More »

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

The Last Time I Saw Her

By Alexandra Harrington

The summer after high school is innately a period of transition, but most graduates teetering on the precipice of adulthood face far less harrowing circumstances than Charlotte Romer. The Last Time I Saw Her, a ... Read More »

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

Elvis, Me, and the Lemonade  Stand Summer

By Leslie Gentile

The only kid at Eagle Shores Trailer Park in 1978, 11-year-old Truly is persuaded into opening a lemonade stand by her neighbour and grandmother figure, Andy El, so she has something to keep her occupied. ... Read More »

June 17, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Poem in My Pocket

By Chris Tougas and Josée Bisaillon (ill.)

Research shows that verse and simple rhymes aid in early childhood development. Babies and toddlers respond to “Itsy Bitsy Spider” because their little brains and bodies are working to make sense of their worlds, to ... Read More »

June 7, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Blood Like Magic

By Liselle Sambury

We’re taught to fear blood, maybe because it’s so often tied to death and gore. In Toronto author Liselle Sambury’s Blood Like Magic, blood signifies other things, too – notably our link to our ancestry ... Read More »

June 3, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Jo Jo Makoons: The Used-to-Be Best Friend

By Dawn Quigley and Tara Audibert (ill.)

Dawn Quigley, citizen of the Turtle Mountain Band of Ojibwe, North Dakota, delivers to young readers the clever and quirky story of Josephine Makoons Azure, otherwise known as Jo Jo Makoons (“Makoons” means bear cub ... Read More »

May 31, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Peggy’s Impossible Tale

By Roy Miki and Slavia Miki and Mariko Ando (ill.)

Peggy’s Impossible Tale by husband-and-wife duo Roy Miki and Slavia Miki is based on the “exceptionally special” guinea pig their daughter, Elisse, had as a child. Guinea pig Peggy is a curious creature and so ... Read More »

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

Thanks a Lot, Universe

By Chad Lucas

Thanks a Lot, Universe by Chad Lucas is an uplifting celebration of resilience. Packed with big issues – a family split apart, microaggressions perpetuated by supposed friends, social-anxiety-induced panic attacks, and a coming-out narrative – ... Read More »

May 20, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

The Street Belongs to Us

By Karleen Pendleton Jiménez and Gabriela Godoy (ill.)

For a kid in Los Angeles in 1984, their street can be their whole world. In this illustrated chapter book, that’s precisely what the muddy paradise of Muscatel Avenue is for Alex and Wolf when ... Read More »

May 17, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

★ If I Tell You the Truth

By Jasmin Kaur

A companion to her 2019 debut, Jasmin Kaur’s sophomore YA novel, If I Tell You the Truth, blends poetry, prose, and illustration to tell the intergenerational story of Kiran, a Punjabi woman who flees her ... Read More »

April 19, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

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