Children and YA Fiction

★ Princess Charming

When you’re a princess, it can be hard to live up to everyone’s high expectations. This is doubly true when your brother happens to be Prince Charming. Such is the premise at the heart of ... Read More »

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

Rabbit Chase

By Elizabeth LaPensée and KC Oster (ill.); Aarin Dokum (trans.)

Rabbit Chase is a graphic novel written by Anishinaabe, Métis, and Irish author Elizabeth LaPensée, with art by Ojibwe-Anishinaabe illustrator KC Oster, that blends Anishinaabe culture with Alice in Wonderland to create an exciting new ... Read More »

May 16, 2022 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

★ Blood Scion

By Deborah Falaye

On the heels of Tomi Adeyemi’s Children of Blood and Bone and Natasha Bowen’s Skin of the Sea comes a new foray into the epic world of Yoruba gods and monsters. Deborah Falaye’s young adult ... Read More »

May 9, 2022 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Cold

By Mariko Tamaki

Mariko Tamaki’s Cold begins as a murder mystery, but from the moment Todd’s ghost lays eyes upon his own body, he remembers being bullied by his classmates and the story’s melancholic undercurrent becomes clear. Despite ... Read More »

May 2, 2022 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

★ Wrong Side of the Court

By H.N. Khan

Fawad Chaudhry has one dream in life: to make it to the NBA. But before that can happen, he needs his mother to let him try out for the school basketball team. The 15-year-old admits ... Read More »

April 27, 2022 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Peanut Butter and Chaos: The Mythic Adventures of Samuel Templeton

By Anita Daher

Peanut Butter and Chaos is the first entry in Anita Daher’s new middle-grade fantasy series, The Mythic Adventures of Samuel Templeton, where real science meets imagination. Sam Templeton has been brought up by his distracted ... Read More »

April 20, 2022 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

★ The Summer Between Us

By Andre Fenton

Andre Fenton has delivered a beautifully crafted coming-of-age story in his newest novel, The Summer Between Us. Eighteen-year-old Adrian Carter struggles as he prepares to finish high school and tries to find his place ... Read More »

April 13, 2022 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

★ Last Week

By Bill Richardson and Emilie Leduc (ill.)

Six hundred and four thousand, eight hundred: the number of seconds in the last week of Flippa’s life. The narrator’s gran is called Flippa because for years she put on her wetsuit and flippers every ... Read More »

April 6, 2022 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

★ The Red Palace

By June Hur

June Hur pens a taut, engrossing historical mystery in The Red Palace. Four women are murdered, and the main suspect is the beloved mentor of 18-year-old Hyeon, a palace nurse. Hyeon teams up with Inspector ... Read More »

March 22, 2022 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Boys and Girls Screaming

By Kern Carter

Can bringing together a group of traumatized friends and school acquaintances help eight teenagers overcome their struggles and move on with their lives? This is the premise of Kern Carter’s latest novel, Boys and Girls ... Read More »

March 15, 2022 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

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