Children and YA Fiction

★ We Are All Made of Molecules

Drama, humour, poignancy, and suspense are rarely found in such perfect proportions as in Governor General’s Literary Award–winner Susin Nielsen’s new novel about a teen odd couple forced together in a blended family situation. Thirteen-year-old ... Read More »

June 2, 2015 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

The Farmerettes

By Gisela Tobien Sherman

During the summer of 1943, while the Second World War rages in Europe, five teenage “city girls” play their part in the war effort by joining the Ontario Farm Services as “farmerettes,” taking over agricultural ... Read More »

May 26, 2015 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Fragile Bones: Harrison and Anna

By Lorna Schultz Nicholson

Diversity, inclusion, and global awareness are the driving values behind new children’s publisher Clockwise Press. Fragile Bones is the first in its inaugural series, One-2-One. Each book will feature two teens who meet through their ... Read More »

May 26, 2015 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Blank

By Trina St. Jean

When we meet 15-year-old farm girl Jessica Grenier, she’s just come out of an 11-day coma (which she dubs the Big Sleep) after being charged by one of the family’s domesticated bison bulls. Suffering from ... Read More »

May 26, 2015 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Jacob’s Landing

By Daphne Greer

Nova Scotia author Daphne Greer’s latest book focuses on 12-year-old Jacob Mosher, who loses his father but discovers he has grandparents – Pearl and Frank – he didn’t know existed. Almost a year after his ... Read More »

May 25, 2015 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Fangirl’s Guide to the Galaxy: A Handbook for Girl Geeks

By Sam Maggs

There was a time, not so long ago, when it was rare to see women at comics conventions unless they were there as invited celebrity guests or brought along by their boyfriends. But the stigma ... Read More »

May 25, 2015 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Mad Miss Mimic

By Sarah Henstra

In her debut novel, Ryerson University English professor Sarah Henstra delivers a plot filled with intrigue, romance, and danger set against the backdrop of Victorian London. Her heroine is Leonora Somerville, a 17-year-old heiress who ... Read More »

May 25, 2015 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Connecting Dots

By Sharon Jennings

As a character, the foster child has powerful potential in fiction, combining 19th-century orphan tropes with contemporary neglected-child realism. Notable foster children in books include the iconic Galadriel in Katherine Paterson’s The Great Gilly Hopkins ... Read More »

April 16, 2015 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Merit Birds

By Kelley Powell

If you’re looking for a book about understanding and acceptance, about a character developing a burgeoning sense of cross-cultural commonality, The Merit Birds by Ottawa author Kelley Powell is not it. When his mother applies ... Read More »

April 16, 2015 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Prison Boy

By Sharon E. McKay

Set in the slums of an unnamed country, Sharon E. McKay’s latest book tells of Pax, a young boy who lives in a downtrodden orphanage run by a formidable Englishwoman named Bell. Though they don’t ... Read More »

April 15, 2015 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

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