★ The Road to Ever After

The world Moira Young creates in The Road to Ever After is a far cry from the desertscape in which she set her highly successful Dustlands trilogy. The small village of Brownvale is also a ... Read More »

October 27, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

At the Edge of the World

By Kari Jones

What are fathers for? This simple question with myriad complex answers lies at the heart of At the Edge of the World, the latest novel by West Coast author Kari Jones. Best friends Maddie and ... Read More »

October 26, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Mask That Sang

By Susan Currie

A wooden Iroquois healing mask, bearing brilliant eyes and a mass of black hair, sits abandoned in the home 12-year-old Cass Foster and her mother inherit unexpectedly. With its eerie sense of familiarity and a ... Read More »

October 17, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

And Then the Sky Exploded

By David A. Poulsen

When Chris Larkin's great-grandfather (GG Will) dies, the almost-14-year-old learns a few things: there was once an initiative called the Manhattan Project, GG Will was one of the scientists who worked on it, and the ... Read More »

October 5, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Watching Traffic

By Jane Ozkowski

YA novels are known for parsing familiar, relevant themes of bullying, mental health, and the exasperating social strata of adolescence. Toronto writer Jane Ozkowski’s debut, Watching Traffic, sets itself apart by concentrating on the tension ... Read More »

October 3, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Downside Up

By Richard Scrimger

Life has not been easy recently for 11-year-old Fred Berdit. Fred has been feeling pretty low since he came down for breakfast one morning to find his beloved dog, Casey, dead on the floor, his ... Read More »

September 29, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Freedom’s Just Another Word

By Caroline Stellings

Growing up in Saskatoon in 1970 with a black father and a white mother is a challenge for Easy (short for Louisiana), but it’s not all bad: her father has trained her as an auto ... Read More »

September 27, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Liszts

By Júlia Sardà (ill.); Kyo Maclear

Based on its title, and the publishing history of its author, fans of Kyo Maclear might expect The Liszts to be about a child version of the composer. However, with the exception of a visual ... Read More »

September 14, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

A Mortal Song

By Megan Crewe

With A Mortal Song, author Megan Crewe poses the question: what would happen if a heroine with magical powers, prophesied to save the world, turned out to be a regular old human with no special ... Read More »

September 13, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Every Hidden Thing

By Kenneth Oppel

With his new novel, Toronto-based YA author Kenneth Oppel takes readers back in time for a high stakes, romantic adventure set against the classic backdrop of a bloody conflict between rival gangs of ... dinosaur ... Read More »

September 8, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

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