Children and YA Fiction

★ Cardboard City

Belgrade-born Katarina Jovanovic offers an endearing fictional story about a place that once existed in her hometown. Cardboard City follows Romani teenagers Nikola and his older sister Saida as they dream of escaping the informal ... Read More »

July 19, 2023 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Lore Isle

By Jiin Kim

Peter, the protagonist of Lore Isle, the debut middle grade novel from Newfoundland writer Jiin Kim, does not have an easy life. He and his mother, who suffers from anxiety and the persistent delusion that ... Read More »

July 5, 2023 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

The Umbrella House

By Colleen Nelson

In Colleen Nelson’s latest middle grade novel, readers follow aspiring journalist Ruby Markowski and her best friend, Scout Chang-Poulin, as they fight against gentrification in their beloved New York City neighbourhood. Since the death of ... Read More »

June 28, 2023 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

When It All Syncs Up

By Maya Ameyaw

Aisha Bimi is a young dancer brimming with passion and promise; but at her exclusive ballet boarding school, she faces constant anti-Black racism. Denied opportunity after opportunity simply for “not looking the part,” Aisha seeks ... Read More »

June 26, 2023 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Of Light and Shadow

By Tanaz Bhathena

Of Light and Shadow by Tanaz Bhathena is a dual-perspective, stand-alone, young adult epic fantasy that tells a propulsive political tale of magic, the attraction of opposites, and chosen family. Roshan Chaya, the Shadow Bandit, ... Read More »

June 21, 2023 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

★ The Stars

By Jacques Goldstyn and Helen Mixter (trans.)

Even though he has no interest in slides or sandboxes, young Yakov always has to take his three younger sisters to the local playground in Mile End. But while they bicker and play, he keeps ... Read More »

June 19, 2023 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Next of Twin

By Jass Aujla

At the request of her dying mother, Riah Arora has pressed pause on her life of crime to search for her long-lost twin. However, instead of the heartwarming reunion and instant bond we may expect ... Read More »

June 12, 2023 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Grounded

By Aisha Saeed; Huda Al-Marashi; Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow; S.K. Ali

Grounded takes off from the (fictional) American Zora Neale Hurston airport, where 11-year-old Hanna Chen, an outspoken animal rights activist – and member of the Animal Allies online forum – is determinedly wandering through the ... Read More »

June 7, 2023 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

The Melancholy of Summer

By Louisa Onomé

With her latest YA contemporary novel, The Melancholy of Summer, Louisa Onomé continues her streak of books that should be made immediately into teen movies. The parents of Nigerian Canadian Summer Uzoma, 17, have disappeared, ... Read More »

May 15, 2023 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Sixties Girl

By MaryLou Driedger

When scheduling demands dictate that 11-year-old Will Sanders will have to spend Wednesday afternoons at his grandmother’s apartment, the last thing he wants to do is tell his friends. At his old school, knowledge that ... Read More »

May 1, 2023 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

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