★ The Agony of Bun O’Keefe

When an author creates a character who is naive for their age, who has been sheltered from the world at large, and is unfamiliar with common idioms or pop-culture references, there’s a risk that character ... Read More »

July 17, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Thin Places

By Lesley Choyce

Declan Lynch, the protagonist of Lesley Choyce’s new novel-in-verse, is a relatively straightforward 16-year-old. He lives in a (deliberately) generic North American city with his parents – his father is a university physics professor and ... Read More »

July 17, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Theory of Hummingbirds

By Michelle Kadarusman

The Grade 6 experience is vast in the sense that kids can be anywhere on the innocence spectrum. Some are still playing with toys and seeing the world through rose-coloured glasses while others are coming ... Read More »

July 13, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Holly Farb and the Princess of the Galaxy

By Gareth Wronski

There are worse sources for an author to borrow from than the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series by the late Douglas Adams. Though Adams was ostensibly writing for adults, his irreverent approach to the ... Read More »

July 12, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Clutch

By Heather Camlot

Not yet 13, Joey Grosser feels he must become the man of the house when his father dies. This means working at the family grocery store, helping his sick mother, and tending his younger brother, ... Read More »

July 4, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Hit the Ground Running

By Alison Hughes

In Hit the Ground Running, the latest YA novel from Alberta author Alison Hughes, protagonist Dee is told by her aunt that “every family needs an anchor.” At 16, Dee doesn’t expect to be that ... Read More »

July 4, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Saints and Misfits

By S.K. Ali

In Saints and Misfits, the first YA novel from Simon & Schuster’s new Muslim-focused Salaam Reads imprint, Toronto author S.K. Ali delivers a contemporary coming-of-age story about a 15-year-old Arab-Indian-American girl named Janna Yusuf. Janna ... Read More »

June 22, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Heartwood Hotel: The Greatest Gift

By Kallie George; Stephanie Graegin (ill.)

If there’s one thing Vancouver author Kallie George knows, it’s how to craft a tale full of whimsy. Her Magical Animal Adoption Agency series for beginning readers is full of the kind of subtle quirkiness ... Read More »

June 21, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Heartwood Hotel: A True Home

By Kallie George; Stephanie Graegin (ill.)

June 21, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Love Is Love

By Mette Bach

Navigating adolescence, testing your boundaries, and figuring out who you are is hard. For LGBTQ+ teens, it’s even more difficult, and potentially much more dangerous. Love Is Love and Rough Patch are two books that ... Read More »

June 19, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

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