Children and YA Fiction

Sorry for Your Loss

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

The Wild Ones

By Nafiza Azad

Nafiza Azad’s sophomore novel, The Wild Ones, is a powerful, unapologetically feminist YA fantasy. “We have the temerity to be not just women, but women of color,” the eponymous group declares. “We will not be ... Read More »

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

Long Distance

By Whitney Gardner

Over a year into a global pandemic that continues to shape our daily lives, this new middle-grade graphic novel from Whitney Gardner takes a timely look at what it means to be kept apart from ... Read More »

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

The Last Time I Saw Her

By Alexandra Harrington

The summer after high school is innately a period of transition, but most graduates teetering on the precipice of adulthood face far less harrowing circumstances than Charlotte Romer. The Last Time I Saw Her, a ... Read More »

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

Elvis, Me, and the Lemonade  Stand Summer

By Leslie Gentile

The only kid at Eagle Shores Trailer Park in 1978, 11-year-old Truly is persuaded into opening a lemonade stand by her neighbour and grandmother figure, Andy El, so she has something to keep her occupied. ... Read More »

June 17, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Poem in My Pocket

By Chris Tougas and Josée Bisaillon (ill.)

Research shows that verse and simple rhymes aid in early childhood development. Babies and toddlers respond to “Itsy Bitsy Spider” because their little brains and bodies are working to make sense of their worlds, to ... Read More »

June 7, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

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