Death by Dinosaur: A Sam Stellar Mystery

Every generation or so, a Canadian children’s publisher or writer comes up with the notion of a mystery series set in various locations across the country. In the early 1960s there was the Secret Circle ... Read More »

May 28, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Crimson

By Arthur Slade

Crimson opens with 11-year-old Fen in the village square awaiting punishment from Queen Servilia, the magical ruler of Illium. For filching a tiny glass butterfly (a gift for her little sister), Fen has been sentenced ... Read More »

May 24, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Clara Voyant

By Rachelle Delaney

Two new books explore the perks and problems that come with a stronger-than-average intuition. One protagonist “sees” his long-dead great-grandfather spying on Nazis, while the other unwittingly uses her “gift” to write horoscopes that come ... Read More »

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

Family of Spies

By Jodi Carmichael

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

The Journey Forward, A Novella on Reconciliation: When We Play Our Drums, They Sing!

By Richard Van Camp

The two stories that comprise this flipbook from B.C. publisher McKellar & Martin take a measured approach to teaching readers about the history of residential schools and the ongoing legacy of pain they caused, but ... Read More »

April 30, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Journey Forward, A Novella on Reconciliation: Lucy & Lola

By Monique Gray Smith

April 30, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Here So Far Away

By Hadley Dyer

Novels in which a “mature” teen girl falls for a much older guy are nothing new. The standard way of resolving the ill-fated love is that the guy ends up leaving town or dying, thereby ... Read More »

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

Fire Song

By Adam Garnet Jones

In this YA adaptation of his 2015 feature film, Fire Song, Adam Garnet Jones offers up an array of real issues facing people living on reserves in Canada as seen through the eyes of teen ... Read More »

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

Big Water

By Andrea Curtis

On Sept. 14, 1882, the steamship SS Asia sank in a storm on Georgian Bay. One hundred and forty passengers and crew died; the only survivors were two teenagers from Ontario, who spent three days ... Read More »

April 19, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

★ Ebb & Flow

By Heather Smith

In Heather Smith’s new middle-grade novel-in-verse, the wordplay grabs you first: “Jett, do you know what killed the cat?” “That’s a curious question Grandma – a dog?” So goes the back and forth between the ... Read More »

April 16, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

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