Children and YA Fiction

The Degrees of Barley Lick

Formerly a couple, Barley and Phyllis, expert teenage geocachers (individuals who search for hidden objects using GPS coordinates) now compete as bitter rivals in geocache competitions. To make matters worse, Barley continues to grieve the ... Read More »

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

Stealing Home

By J. Torres; David Namisato (ill.)

Told from the perspective of Sandy, a young baseball fan whose family is uprooted and transported to an internment camp by the Canadian government after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Stealing Home shows young ... Read More »

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

Death & Sparkles

By Rob Justus

Rob Justus’s latest graphic novel is about Sparkles, universally famous and adored, and Death, loathed by humankind. When Death arrives at a bustling metropolis to claim the soul of Sparkles, the last unicorn, an adventure ... Read More »

November 10, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Jamilah at the End of the World

By Mary-Lou Zeitoun

Thanks to David Suzuki and a news clip about a “Totally Awful American Hurricane,” 17-year-old Jamilah Monsour is convinced a climate disaster is imminent. She starts stockpiling supplies and converts her family’s garage into a ... Read More »

October 5, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

The Undercover Book List

By Colleen Nelson

A secret note hidden in a favourite book in the school library. A bookish girl looking for a new best friend. A restless prankster who dislikes reading. These are the ingredients in Colleen Nelson’s The ... Read More »

September 29, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Sorry for Your Loss

By Joanne Levy

From classics by E.B. White and Katherine Paterson to contemporary novels by Eric Walters and Ali Benjamin, the subject of death is something that children’s fiction is unafraid to explore. The rituals following death, however, ... Read More »

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

Walking in Two Worlds

By Wab Kinew

Bugz Holiday lives in two worlds. In the real world, Bugz – the protagonist of writer and politician Wab Kinew’s first fantasy novel for young readers, Walking in Two Worlds – is an Anishinaabe high ... Read More »

September 21, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

A Terrible Tide

By Suzanne Meade

On November 19, 1929, Celia’s celebrating her 13th birthday with her family when their house on Newfoundland’s Burin Peninsula begins to shake. Alarmed, everyone runs outside. Was it an explosion? Nobody knows. Since there is ... Read More »

September 1, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

★ Living with Viola

By Rosena Fung

Toronto cartoonist Rosena Fung is well known on the zine and comics festival circuit, and while for many readers her first full-length graphic novel will showcase a new talent, for others Living with Viola is ... Read More »

September 1, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

The Hill

By Ali Bryan

For more than 60 years, girls have lived in peace on the Hill, an island shaped like a girl resting on her side. Sent by the mysterious Colony, they arrive in boats as infants and ... Read More »

August 16, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

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