Children and YA Fiction

Away Running

The new novel by Luc Bouchard and David Wright tackles the subject of racism and adversity faced by American football players in the early 2000s in Villeneuve, a poverty-stricken neighbourhood of Paris. Away Running also ... Read More »

March 21, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Look Out for the Fitzgerald-Trouts

By Esta Spalding; Sydney Smith (illus.)

Screenwriter, poet, and author Esta Spalding dips her toe into the ocean of children’s writing with her debut middle-grade novel, the first in a series about a family of loosely related children who have been ... Read More »

March 21, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Hot Pterodactyl Boyfriend

By Alan Cumyn

A cute new transfer student usually causes a fair bit of commotion in high school, but when that transfer student happens to be a dinosaur who should have been extinct for the last 65 million ... Read More »

March 10, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Saving Montgomery Sole

By Mariko Tamaki

Mariko Tamaki gives good misfit. In a YA field crowded with stock outcasts, Tamaki’s weirdos stand out for never being merely the sum of a few obvious quirks or emotions. Nor are they princes- and ... Read More »

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

The Hill

By Karen Bass

Alberta-based Geoffrey Bilson Award–winning author Karen Bass draws on the Cree legend of the Wîhtiko for her latest YA novel, which blends adventure, horror, and some good old-fashioned coming-of-age wisdom. En route to spend the ... Read More »

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

Finding Hope

By Colleen Nelson

Cerebral, straight-laced 15-year-old Hope Randall is eager to leave her small town of Lumsville and escape her apathetic parents and 18-year-old meth-addicted brother, Eric. Once the town’s star hockey player and bound for the NHL, ... Read More »

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

★ Movers

By Meaghan McIsaac

Toronto author Meaghan McIsaac sets her novel in a near-future dystopia in which the world is dying as a result of pollution and overpopulation. The story centres around a boy named Pat. A “Mover,” Pat ... Read More »

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

The Skeleton Tree

By Iain Lawrence

Iain Lawrence knows a thing or two about adventure in the wilderness: he’s been a logger, a firefighter, and a fish farmer, among other things. The author brings the full force of this experience to ... Read More »

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

★ Exit, Pursued by a Bear

By E.K. Johnston

At a party celebrating the end of cheerleading camp, Hermione Winters – likable, great student, loyal friend, and captain of her school’s cheer squad – is drugged and raped. Remembering nothing of the attack, she ... Read More »

February 2, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Frame and the McGuire

By Joanna M. Weston

On an innocent trip to the local bridge, 10-year-old Frame and her brother, Ranger, are shocked to discover a body floating face-down in the river. Haunted by the image of what turns out to be ... Read More »

January 18, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

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