Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster

It would be nice to think the Victorian-era practice of forcing small children down the throats of chimneys in order to scrub the area by hand was a historical anomaly and unthinkable now. But as ... Read More »

September 27, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Past Tense: How Do You Live After Death?

By Star Spider

Julie Nolan doesn’t know what’s wrong with her mom. Lately she’s found her at the graveyard, lying in open graves. The only way Julie’s mom can explain her bizarre behaviour is to say, “My heart ... Read More »

September 24, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

The Almost Epic Squad: Mucus Mayhem

By Britt Wilson (ill.); Kevin Sylvester

Going for mass-market appeal, three new middle-grade series, respectively, stake claim in the gross-out genre, borrow heavily from another international bestselling series, and woo the lucrative Disney princess–loving crowd. Scholastic Canada has brought together veteran ... Read More »

September 17, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Miranda and Maude: The Princess and the Absolutely Not a Princess

By Emma Wunsch; Jessika von Innerebner (ill.)

September 17, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Billy Stuart and the Zintrepids

By Alain M. Bergeron; Sampar (ill.); Sophie B. Watson (trans.)

September 17, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Infinite Blue

By Darren Groth; Simon Groth

Water imagery abounds in Darren and Simon Groth’s Infinite Blue. The two brothers, writing as a team, weave a neighbourhood flood, an important bathtub chat, and a dripping shower into a story that sees water ... Read More »

September 10, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Tree Musketeers

By Norma Charles

Tree Musketeers, a middle-grade novel by accomplished West Coast writer Norma Charles (Runner: Harry Jerome, World’s Fastest Man), is a universal fish-out-of-water story. Jeanie is new at school, having just moved to Van City from ... Read More »

September 7, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Learning to Breathe

By Janice Lynn Mather

In her debut young-adult novel, Janice Lynn Mather introduces readers to Indira May Ferguson – Indy for short – who’s leaving the Bahamian village of Mariner’s Cay to live with her uncle, aunt, and cousin ... Read More »

September 6, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Almost Invisible

By Maureen Garvie

There are plenty of children’s books that explore the fantasy of living in a public space – for example, Corduroy, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, or The Invention of Hugo Cabret. ... Read More »

September 6, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

★ Very Rich

By Polly Horvath

Rupert Brown, the protagonist of Very Rich, is a Tiny Tim–like character who has a Scrooge-like experience. In this inversion of A Christmas Carol, the poor child is the one who receives three surprise visitors. ... Read More »

August 23, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

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Quill and Quire

Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster

Past Tense: How Do You Live After Death?

The Almost Epic Squad: Mucus Mayhem

Miranda and Maude: The Princess and the Absolutely Not a Princess

Billy Stuart and the Zintrepids

Infinite Blue

Tree Musketeers

Learning to Breathe

Almost Invisible

★ Very Rich

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