Children and YA Fiction

Take Off!

In Lea Beddia’s Take Off!, Marissa is having a hard time in her final year of high school. She’s being bullied by her former friend, Aimee, and she needs to pull up her low grades ... Read More »

March 29, 2023 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

No Place Like Home

By Linh S. Nguyễn

Lost in her favourite books, 11-year-old Lan can almost forget about how much she misses her mother and younger brother, both still in Việt Nam. Though books can’t quite make the basement apartment she shares ... Read More »

March 15, 2023 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

★ Delicious Monsters

By Liselle Sambury

Seventeen-year-old Daisy Odlin can see ghosts. Like moths to a flame, spirits of the dead gravitate toward misery – something Daisy has in constant supply. Dealing with the burden of her psychic abilities, a simultaneously ... Read More »

March 1, 2023 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

★ Like a Hurricane

By Jonathan Bécotte and Jonathan Kaplansky (trans.)

Like a Hurricane by award-winning Montreal author and elementary school teacher Jonathan Bécotte, and translated by Jonathan Kaplansky, is a novel in verse about a young teen struggling to reveal his true self to friends ... Read More »

February 15, 2023 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

★ Not Talking About You

By Kevin heronJones

When Khalil’s family moves from Toronto to Milton, he finds himself navigating a new middle school and wondering where exactly he might fit in. As a Black boy among a predominantly white student population, Khalil ... Read More »

January 18, 2023 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

The Secret of the Jade Bangle

By Linda Trinh and Clayton Nguyen (ill.)

“I don’t know who I am,” Anne Nguyen tells her Grandma Nội’s ghost as she struggles to make perfect chả giò (spring rolls). “How can I be the future?” For the nine-year-old Vietnamese-Canadian protagonist of ... Read More »

December 21, 2022 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

★ Heartbreak Homes

By Jo Treggiari

Heartbreak Homes, the stunning new YA mystery novel by Lunenberg, N.S., writer and bookseller Jo Treggiari, begins with a house party. It’s a scene that will be familiar to most readers – there’s a lot ... Read More »

December 14, 2022 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

By Zoulfa Katouh

Zoulfa Katouh’s As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow begins in a supermarket in the Syrian city of Homs. Salama Kassab, the protagonist, buys everything the supermarket has to offer – three shrivelled lemons and ... Read More »

December 7, 2022 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

★ Night of the Raven, Dawn of the Dove

By Rati Mehrotra

Young bodyguard Katyani bears the responsibility of protecting the kingdom of Chandela’s royal line – a weighty enough task to shoulder even without monsters lurking at every turn and an inescapable life-debt she doesn’t truly ... Read More »

November 28, 2022 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

I’m the Girl

By Courtney Summers

Since the death of their mother to cancer, 16-year-old Georgia Avis has been living with her older brother for more than a year and doing whatever it takes to make ends meet. She dreams of ... Read More »

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

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