Children and YA Fiction

The Melancholy of Summer

With her latest YA contemporary novel, The Melancholy of Summer, Louisa Onomé continues her streak of books that should be made immediately into teen movies. The parents of Nigerian Canadian Summer Uzoma, 17, have disappeared, ... Read More »

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

Sixties Girl

By MaryLou Driedger

When scheduling demands dictate that 11-year-old Will Sanders will have to spend Wednesday afternoons at his grandmother’s apartment, the last thing he wants to do is tell his friends. At his old school, knowledge that ... Read More »

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

★ Funeral Songs for Dying Girls

By Cherie Dimaline

Métis author Cherie Dimaline blends horror, humour, and romance in the poignant YA novel Funeral Songs for Dying Girls. Winifred Blight and her dad live in a small apartment over the Winterson Cemetery crematorium with ... Read More »

April 26, 2023 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

The Moonlight Blade

By Tessa Barbosa

In a narrative filled with elaborate, brightly hued descriptions and sweeping views of landscapes, The Moonlight Blade by Tessa Barbosa takes readers on a profound journey through the mythical land of Tigang. The story is ... Read More »

April 17, 2023 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

★ How to Win a Breakup

By Farah Heron

When Samaya’s boyfriend, Devin, unexpectedly dumps her right before the summer holidays, her volunteer summer job is out of the question (no way is she spending two months with her ex), and she finds herself ... Read More »

April 5, 2023 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

The Rainbow, the Midwife, and the Birds: 4 Dene Tales

By Raymond Yakeleya; Samantha Gibbon; Rich Théroux; and Antoine Mountain (ill.)

The Rainbow, the Midwife, and the Birds: 4 Dene Tales is an illustrated anthology of stories by Dene author Raymond Yakeleya. They include traditional Dene tales, personal stories from Yakeleya’s childhood, and a biography of ... Read More »

April 3, 2023 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Take Off!

By Lea Beddia

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

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