Children and YA Fiction

The Book of Sam

Sixteen-year-old Sam – the protagonist of Toronto writer Rob Shapiro’s new YA novel – is a bit of an outcast. Bullied by his peers and largely overlooked by his parents (when they aren’t disparaging him), ... Read More »

November 26, 2020 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

The Girl Who Was Convinced Beyond All Reason That She Could Fly

By Sybil Lamb

It may not be possible to bottle artist and writer Sybil Lamb’s imagination, but Arsenal Pulp Press has done the next best thing with this short illustrated novel. The story takes place on (and above) ... Read More »

November 19, 2020 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

You Were Never Here

By Kathleen Peacock

Cat hasn’t been back to Montgomery Falls, the town her family founded, since she was 12. That was the summer she began seeing people’s deepest desires and fears just by touching them – an ability ... Read More »

November 9, 2020 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

★ Pine Island Home

By Polly Horvath

Orphaned children and crotchety neighbours have long been popular fodder for children’s stories. In Pine Island Home, Polly Horvath brings these two elements together in a novel that is surprisingly fun and light (considering the ... Read More »

November 5, 2020 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Magic Dark and Strange

By Kelly Powell

There’s something about the Victorian era that lures the mystery writer. Perhaps it’s the shadowy gaslit streets or the sweeping, barren countryside. Maybe it’s the age’s lurid fascination with death and spiritualism, the heavy division ... Read More »

October 22, 2020 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Deadly Curious

By Cindy Anstey

October 22, 2020 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Barry Squires, Full Tilt

By Heather Smith

The tendency to make everyone and everything in Newfoundland seem good-natured, offbeat, and comical has become a fatiguing stereotype and it somewhat tempers enjoyment of the first bit of Barry Squires, Full Tilt. But in ... Read More »

September 21, 2020 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

★ No Vacancy

By Tziporah Cohen

In this provocative contemporary middle-grade novel, Tziporah Cohen introduces readers to 11-year-old Miriam and her family as they move to Greenvale, New York, to run the Jewel Motor Inn. Even as she helps to fix ... Read More »

September 17, 2020 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

I Hope You’re Listening

By Tom Ryan

Teenagers, especially girls, are so often the focus of true-crime podcasts that these real-life horror stories might be taken as cautionary tales. It makes sense, then, that YA novelists such as Courtney Summers (Sadie) and ... Read More »

August 27, 2020 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Heart Sister

By Michael F. Stewart

We first meet Emmitt Highland following the death of his 16-year-old twin sister, Minnie, who was struck by a car. Emmitt is looking for a way to cheer up his severely depressed mother. In the ... Read More »

August 20, 2020 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

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