Children and YA Fiction

Seabird

Governor General's Award finalist Michelle Kadarusman brings an inspiring tale that centres her proud Indonesian heritage in the historical middle grade retelling, Seabird. Readers are introduced to Raden Adjeng Kartini, a real 19th century female ... Read More »

September 24, 2025 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

★ A Summer of Dragonflies

By Natasha Deen

Natasha Deen’s latest novel, A Summer of Dragonflies, is a delightful, heartwarming, and hilarious read. The story follows the journey of 12-year-old (but almost 13) Gupta, affectionately known as a Guppie by her loved ones, ... Read More »

September 17, 2025 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

★ True Colors: Growing Up Weird in the 90s

By Elise Gravel and Montana Kane (trans.)

In this artfully crafted and ultra-relatable fictionalized graphic memoir, Governor General’s Award–winning author-illustrator Elise Gravel takes readers back to her formative tween years filled with colourful hobbies, true-blue friends, and undiagnosed ADHD. On the pages ... Read More »

August 27, 2025 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books

★ This Place Kills Me

By Mariko Tamaki and Nicole Goux (ill.)

Being the new kid at school is hard, especially at all-girls boarding school Wilberton, where Abby Kita has been sent in the wake of a personal indiscretion. And though the rumours about her past have ... Read More »

August 20, 2025 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

A Drop in the Ocean

By Léa Taranto

A Drop in the Ocean is the debut YA novel from Léa Taranto, a Paris-born, Burnaby, B.C.-raised writer, whose Chinese and Jewish heritage infuses this coming-of-age story about mental health with humour and tenderness. Drawn ... Read More »

June 25, 2025 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

★ The Haunted Blizzard

By Aviaq Johnston and Athena Gubbe (ill.)

The Haunted Blizzard, the powerful new graphic novel by prize-winning Inuk author Aviaq Johnston and illustrated by Ontario artist Athena Gubbe, begins with school being cancelled. A blizzard has descended on Iqaluit and the younger ... Read More »

May 28, 2025 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Spirit Service

By Sarena Nanua and Sasha Nanua

Four friends team up to form a business that helps spirits pass on to the afterlife peacefully in this middle grade novel that will indulge paranormal fancies, and shows promise to be the start of ... Read More »

May 14, 2025 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

To Steal from Thieves

By M.K. Lobb

As wealthy Londoners await the grand opening of the Great Exhibition of 1851 in the new Crystal Palace, Zaria Mendoza is at her work table in the city’s slums completing one of her late father’s ... Read More »

April 16, 2025 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

★ Every Little Bit Olive Tran

By Phuong Truong

Joyful and celebratory seem like odd descriptors for a book about racism, but author Phuong Truong and artist Christine Wei manage this delicate balance rather deftly in Every Little Bit Olive Tran. The story centres ... Read More »

February 26, 2025 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Miss Matty

By Edeet Ravel

Fran was born to be an actress. After all, she has always been acting in front of everyone, even her best friend Rita – pretending her family isn’t so poor that they can’t afford store-bought ... Read More »

February 19, 2025 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

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