Children and YA Fiction

The Land of Yesterday

The death of a loved one is one of the most significant and perilous subjects for fiction – especially if the writer is trying to deal realistically with elements of grief, mourning, and psychological frailty ... Read More »

July 12, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Game of Hope

By Sandra Gulland

In Sandra Gulland’s new YA novel, the titular game involves a fortune-telling card deck similar to tarot or lotería. It’s a perfect narrative frame for the novel’s protagonist, Hortense de Beauharnais, whose new stepfather just ... Read More »

July 9, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Call of the Rift: Flight

By Jae Waller

Whether she’s battling magical spirits or dealing with unrequited love, 17-year-old Kateiko is plagued by drama in this high-fantasy meets coming-of-age story, set against the backdrop of a tension-filled colonial world. Haunted by visions of ... Read More »

June 27, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Along the Indigo

By Elsie Chapman

For Marsden, the main character in Elsie Chapman’s Along the Indigo, “the covert” is her birthright, her burden, and the only source of hope in a life battered by circumstance. The covert is an overgrown ... Read More »

June 27, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

★ The Discovery of Flight

By Susan Glickman

The Discovery of Flight is about two sisters who write. Twelve-year-old Sophie is keeping a journal for her Hebrew class in preparation for her bat mitzvah, and 16-year-old Libby is penning a secret fantasy story ... Read More »

June 27, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Pulse Point

By Colleen Nelson; Nancy Chappell-Pollack

Post-catastrophe dystopia-disguised-as-utopia narratives are a mainstay of literature for teens and have been for years. From The Giver to The Hunger Games, these stories feature citizens with their rights and freedoms subjugated for the “greater ... Read More »

June 25, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Oculum

By Philippa Dowding

June 25, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Sadie

By Courtney Summers

On the first page of Sadie, the reader is told exactly what to expect: “It’s a story about family, about sisters, and the untold lives lived in small-town America. It’s about the lengths we go ... Read More »

June 21, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Missing Mike

By Shari Green

In Missing Mike, Vancouver Island–based writer Shari Green, known for her award-winning middle-grade verse novels Root Beer Candy and Other Miracles and Macy McMillan and the Rainbow Goddess, mines the dynamics of loss, change, and ... Read More »

June 18, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

This Book Betrays My Brother

By Kagiso Lesego Molope

Naledi, the narrator of Kagiso Lesego Molope’s young adult novel, could be mistaken for a stereotypical North American teenage girl, obsessed with boys, clothes, and music. But Naledi comes from a township in South Africa ... Read More »

June 11, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

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