Children and YA Fiction

★ Not Talking About You

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

In the Key of Dale

By Benjamin Lefebvre

Sixteen-year-old Dale Cardigan is a musical prodigy, plain and simple. He aced his latest Royal Conservatory exam. He plays the organ at the local church for pocket money. He plays piano at his lesbian friends’ ... Read More »

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

★ Water Love

By Natalie Hodgson and Rajean Willis; Sahle Robinson (ill.)

The “giver of life” characteristic of water is proverbial. Yet for many people of African descent, particularly those in the diaspora, the water we swim in carries a darker history of enslavement and death. It ... Read More »

November 9, 2022 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Rain Rising

By Courtne Comrie

Rain idolizes her 18-year-old brother, Xander (or as she likes to call him, X). Both intelligent and athletic, X has a scholarship to attend an elite high school where he plays on the football team ... Read More »

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

★ The Museum of Odd Body Leftovers: A Tour of Your Useless Parts, Flaws, and Other Weird Bits

By Rachel Poliquin and Clayton Hanmer (ill.)

Rachel Poliquin’s latest nonfiction title, The Museum of Odd Body Leftovers: A Tour of Your Useless Parts, Flaws, and Other Weird Bits, is both accessible and enjoyable, with a playful writing style that introduces the ... Read More »

November 2, 2022 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

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