Children and YA Fiction

In the Key of Dale

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

★ Love from Mecca to Medina

By S.K. Ali

It takes courage, patience, and hard work to sustain a romantic commitment – if you are brave enough to make one. There are no “happily ever afters,” except in fairy tales. Love from Mecca to ... Read More »

October 26, 2022 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Road of the Lost

By Nafiza Azad

Seventeen-year-old Croi – who appears as a small sprite known as a brownie – has lived her entire life in the Wilde Forest with the Hag, an emotionless guardian made of wood and stone. While ... Read More »

October 24, 2022 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Ancient Ghosts: A Collection of Strange and Scary Stories from Northern Norway

By Edel Marit Gaino and Toma Feizo Gas (ill.); Olivia Lasky and Lea Simma (trans.)

Some say that ghost stories are as old as storytelling itself – that people would gather in darkness to weave tales of warning. With shadows dancing menacingly on their faces by the dim light of ... Read More »

October 12, 2022 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Ahiahia the Orphan

By Levi Illuitok and Nate Wells (ill.)

After Ahiahia’s parents are murdered in their igloo, he is raised by his loving grandmother, who teaches him the traditional ways of his people and makes his clothing out of animal skins. To keep him ... Read More »

September 26, 2022 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

★ Call Me Bill

By Lynette Richards

Expertly illustrated in black and white, Lynette Richards’s debut graphic novel tells a fictionalized version of the life of Maggie/Bill Armstrong, an adventurer who defied gender expectations in a quest to do what they loved. ... Read More »

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

Apartment 713

By Kevin Sylvester

Be it marble run or Mousetrap, what kid doesn’t love the Rube Goldberg–esque twists and turns of a moving puzzle? In veteran kidlit writer Kevin Sylvester’s newest offering, Apartment 713, the Regency, the apartment building ... Read More »

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

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