Children and YA Fiction

House of Ash

No matter the era, life as a teenager is fraught with peril. Take Curtis and Mila, the protagonists of House of Ash, the powerful new YA fantasy from Edmonton writer Hope Cook. Curtis, in the ... Read More »

August 14, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Caterpillars Can’t Swim

By Liane Shaw

Liane Shaw, a former special-education resource teacher, has never shied away from tough topics. Her previous novels have tackled foster care (Fostergirls), physical and emotional limitations (The Color of Silence), and autism spectrum disorder (Don’t ... Read More »

August 14, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

★ The Marrow Thieves

By Cherie Dimaline

In the latest YA novel by Métis writer and editor Cherie Dimaline, the world has been ravaged by global warming. Cities have crumbled from the coastlines, “breaking off like crust,” and hurricanes, earthquakes, and tsunamis ... Read More »

August 14, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Zero Repeat Forever

By G.S. Prendergast

The first novel in G.R. Prendergast’s Nahx Invasions series introduces readers to a dystopian Earth under attack from an alien species. No one knows why the Nahx are invading, only that the siege is ruthless ... Read More »

August 9, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

★ The Agony of Bun O’Keefe

By Heather Smith

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

Prev 31 323334 35....101 102 Next