Children and YA Fiction

Exo

Fonda Lee’s Exo takes place in a distant future, on a dramatically altered Earth that’s been colonized by an alien species, the Zhree. The war that led to the colonization ended a century ago and ... Read More »

March 1, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

★ The Goat

By Anne Fleming

Short-story author and poet Anne Fleming’s first run at children’s fiction is a quirky, riotous story that uses a preposterous conceit to deftly veil much deeper issues and themes. A story about a goat roaming ... Read More »

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

Dominion

By Shane Arbuthnott

Molly Stout lives in a world that is either a polluted dystopian future with King George V on the British throne; the Victorian past with a steampunk twist and lots of rivets but no electronics; ... Read More »

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

Saying Good-bye to London

By Julie Burtinshaw

It’s a classic story: Boy meets girl at a dance; boy and girl get hot and heavy for a while; boy and girl break up. In Julie Burtinshaw’s Saying Good-bye to London, the boy (Francis) ... Read More »

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

If This is Home

By Kristine Scarrow

Jayce has locked her heart up tight, only allowing room for her little sister and their overworked mom. When her mom is diagnosed with cancer, the tenuous balancing act that keeps their lives together is ... Read More »

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

Keeping the Beat

By Jeff Norton; Marie Powell

Canadian Jeff Norton (now based in the U.K.) – author of the Memoirs of a Neurotic Zombie books and the MetaWars series – joins forces with first-time author and entertainment-industry veteran Marie Powell on the novel ... Read More »

February 8, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Crushing It

By Joanne Levy

In a middle-grade twist on the classic tale of Cyrano de Bergerac’s clandestine wooing of the fair Roxane on behalf of the tongue-tied Christian, Joanne Levy, author of the very funny Small Medium at Large, ... Read More »

February 8, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

★ Everything Beautiful Is Not Ruined

By Danielle Younge-Ullman

When 17-year-old Ingrid Burke arrives at Peak Wilderness camp, it is not what she is expecting. For starters, there is no physical camp, with log cabins, a firepit for sing-alongs, and a cozy mess hall ... Read More »

January 30, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

He Who Dreams

By Melanie Florence

He Who Dreams is Toronto writer Melanie Florence’s first book for Orca Limelights, a series of performing arts-focused stories for young readers. Florence is also the author of the TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award–winning picture ... Read More »

January 25, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Good Girls

By Sarah Sahagian; Shalta Dicaire Fardin

From Inanna publications, a self-described feminist publisher, comes Good Girls, the first in a planned series of “daring and feminist-first” young-adult novels following the lives of two 15-year-old girls attending an “elite” all-girl Boston prep ... Read More »

January 23, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

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