Barry Squires, Full Tilt

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

He Must Like You

By Danielle Younge-Ullman

When a little girl is repeatedly teased and hurt by a boy in the schoolyard or classroom, a well-meaning adult inevitably brushes off the bully’s behaviour by saying, “He must like you.” In her new ... Read More »

August 13, 2020 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

★ Charming as a Verb

By Ben Philippe

If people weren’t aware of it already, Felicity Huffman’s and Lori Loughlin’s recent escapades highlight how significant it is for some families to see their children gain acceptance to elite colleges. And while these Hollywood ... Read More »

July 30, 2020 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

The Year Shakespeare Ruined My Life

By Dani Jansen

July 30, 2020 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Facing the Sun

By Janice Lynn Mather

Janice Lynn Mather’s second novel for young adults opens with an altercation between a group of teenagers on Pinder Point, one of the few Nassau beaches still open to locals living adjacent to the water. ... Read More »

July 23, 2020 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

The Daughters of Ys

By M.T. Anderson and Jo Rioux (ill.)

A tale as old as time gets a female-centric update in National Book Award winner M.T. Anderson’s third graphic novel. Anderson recounts the ancient Breton legend of Ys, a lavish city swallowed by the ocean. ... Read More »

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

Waiting Under Water

By Riel Nason

Waiting Under Water, a novel by Riel Nason, begins and ends with sea glass. When Hope was eight, she started making sea glass on the beach behind her house in St. David’s, a small town ... Read More »

July 13, 2020 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

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