Children and YA Fiction

The Revenge Game

The trope of high school boys commodifying their sexual conquests isn’t new, and, since the #MeToo movement, neither is the storyline of high school girls fighting back. Jordyn Taylor presents her own take with The ... Read More »

November 22, 2023 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

★ No One Left But You

By Tash McAdam

When readers first meet Max, the protagonist of Welsh-Canadian writer Tash McAdam’s taut new novel No One Left But You, the 17-year-old skater and musician (and high school student) is in handcuffs and covered in ... Read More »

November 22, 2023 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Goddess Crown

By Shade Lapite

Following in the footsteps of Tomi Adeyemi, Deborah Falaye, and Namina Forna, Shade Lapite blends danger and court intrigue in Goddess Crown to create a coming-of-age novel set in an entirely Afrocentric fantasy world. Raised ... Read More »

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

★ Dragging Mason County

By Curtis Campbell

Curtis Campbell’s debut, Dragging Mason County, is a witty and charming young adult novel that encourages learning to be kinder to oneself and others. Peter Thompkin is part of a small group of queer kids ... Read More »

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

★ Maggie Lou, Firefox

By Arnolda Dufour Bowes and Karlene Harvey (ill.)

Métis author Arnolda Dufour Bowes’s lighthearted collection of stories, Maggie Lou, Firefox, documents the misadventures of a creative, outspoken 12-year-old. Maggie Lou is always willing to get into trouble – and to drag her younger ... Read More »

October 30, 2023 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

How to Be Found

By Emily Pohl-Weary

Sixteen-year-old Michie and her best friend (a.k.a. “sister”) Trissa grew up together in the dilapidated duplex their single moms own. Over the past few months however, the girls have drifted apart as they find themselves ... Read More »

October 18, 2023 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

We the Sea Turtles: A Collection of Island Stories

By Michelle Kadarusman

Most conversations on climate change are beset with a sense of powerlessness and hopelessness. Saving the planet is a tall order. Where does one even begin? What can ordinary folks do about it? Shouldn’t our ... Read More »

October 16, 2023 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Those Pink Mountain Nights

By Jen Ferguson

Those Pink Mountain Nights is about a pizzeria in Canmore, Alberta. It’s about Berlin, an academic overachiever, Cameron, a high school dropout, and Jessie, a flirtatious rich kid, who all work at Pink Mountain Pizza, ... Read More »

September 18, 2023 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Into the Bright Open: A Secret Garden Remix

By Cherie Dimaline

Into the Bright Open, by Métis author Cherie Dimaline, reimagines The Secret Garden through an anti-colonial lens. It is the eighth book in the Remixed Classics series, in which authors from under-represented backgrounds take literary ... Read More »

September 13, 2023 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Hans Christian Andersen Lives Next Door

By Cary Fagan and Chelsea O’Byrne (ill.)

Hans Christian Andersen Lives Next Door is a funny and thought-provoking middle-grade novel about the power of stories – especially the ones we tell ourselves. Real life isn’t a fairy tale for Andie Gladman. The ... Read More »

September 11, 2023 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

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