Children and YA Fiction

Nowhere Wild

In Joe Beernink’s Nowhere Wild, a global pandemic has wiped out all but those who possess natural immunity to the disease. Transportation is cut off, food supplies vanish, and many desperate survivors let their basest ... Read More »

September 11, 2015 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

My Life Before Me

By Norah McClintock

Series are a popular choice for many young readers. Familiar elements – tone, setting, character, theme – welcome you back in the next book, offering a world in which you already feel comfortable. Orca Book ... Read More »

September 11, 2015 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Trouble is a Friend of Mine

By Stephanie Tromly

Former Los Angeles screenwriter Stephanie Tromly, now based in Winnipeg, marks her YA debut with an action-packed novel about teenager Zoe Webster, who finds herself downgraded from Manhattan living to a small town in upstate ... Read More »

September 11, 2015 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Leading Lines

By Chantel Guertin

The third novel in the Pippa Green series maintains the fun yet poignant standard set by author Chantel Guertin in the previous instalments. Though things aren’t great in Pippa’s life, Guertin never allows her story ... Read More »

September 11, 2015 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Heartache and Other Natural Shocks

By Glenda Leznoff

Playwright and artist Glenda Leznoff sets her sexy, honest story about a love triangle between three teens against the backdrop of the early 1970s and the FLQ crisis. Trouble begins when Jules Epstein’s anglophone mother ... Read More »

September 11, 2015 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Small Bones

By Vicki Grant

September 11, 2015 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

After Dark

By James Leck

For 15-year-old Charlie Harker, nothing could be worse than a summer vacation spent renovating a rundown hotel in the pokey little town of Rolling Hills. Exotic holidays in Hawaii are more his style, but his ... Read More »

September 2, 2015 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Hannah Smart: Operation Josh Taylor

By Melody Fitzpatrick

Thirteen-year-old Hannah Smart only has one thing on her mind after discovering her music idol, Josh Taylor, is giving a New Year’s Eve concert in her town. When her parents decide she needs to pay ... Read More »

September 2, 2015 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Say You Will

By Eric Walters

In the latest YA novel from veteran author Eric Walters (who has written more than 90 books over the course of two decades), readers are introduced to Sam, a Grade 11 boy with an exceptionally ... Read More »

August 5, 2015 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Myles and the Monster Outside (Weird Stories Gone Wrong, Book 2)

By Philippa Dowding

Writing horror stories for kids is a bit of a tightrope walk. Not enough spookiness and readers will be bored, too much and they might have nightmares. It’s a fine balance, one that Philippa Dowding ... Read More »

August 5, 2015 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

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