Children and YA Fiction

The Creature Department

What if the leading minds in technology were not Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, but giants and monsters with their own periodic table and laws of physics? In The Creature Department, author Robert Paul Weston imagines a ... Read More »

November 13, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Morven and the Horse Clan

By Luanne Armstrong

Taking as her setting 3,500 BC Eurasia (in present-day Kazakhstan), Luanne Armstrong weaves a story of a young woman who befriends and tames the wild horses of the steppes. Although fictional, Armstrong’s tale is based ... Read More »

November 13, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Magdeburg Trilogy, Book Two: The Night Has Claws

By Kat Kruger

Since launching last fall, Fierce Ink Press, a publishing co-operative in Atlantic Canada, has primarily released YA titles in ebook or print-on-demand formats. The exception is Kat Kruger’s Magdeburg trilogy, about an unsuspecting American werewolf ... Read More »

November 13, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

★ Who I’m Not

By Ted Staunton

Who I’m Not takes off like a rocket and continues its upward trajectory right to the very last page. The book opens with a cocky teenage narrator telling readers who he isn’t, while running a ... Read More »

November 13, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Picture Me

By Lori Weber

Author of six previous YA books, Quebec’s Lori Weber returns with a novel that is not only a gripping story but also a bold experiment in narrative form. Picture Me takes what might otherwise have ... Read More »

October 29, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Spotted Dog Last Seen

By Jessica Scott Kerrin

Jessica Scott Kerrin, best known for her lauded Martin Bridge series, is back with another adventure book for boys. In The Spotted Dog Last Seen, readers are introduced to Derek Knowles-Collier, who fears that his ... Read More »

October 29, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Opposite of Geek

By Ria Voros

Fourteen year-old Gretchen Meyer treads lightly through the halls of Carver Green High School with her loyal pal Nemiah, rolling her eyes at the school’s tedious and shallow clique culture. So far she’s managed to ... Read More »

October 29, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

How to Curse in Hieroglyphics

By Lesley Livingston and Jonathan Llyr

Popular YA author Lesley Livingston makes her first foray into middle-grade territory with How to Curse in Hieroglyphics, the first book in the Wiggins Weird series. The supernatural tale, co-authored by Toronto actor and former ... Read More »

October 29, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Home Ice Advantage

By Tom Earle

Shame, embarrassment, and fear often keep us from exposing our psychological baggage to the masses, and the main characters in Tom Earle’s newest middle-grade novel are especially keen to keep their traumas under wraps. Twelve-year-old ... Read More »

October 29, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

★ Baygirl

By Heather Smith

Heather Smith, a Newfoundlander who now makes her home in Waterloo, Ontario, sets her debut novel against the backdrop of the 1992 cod fishing moratoriums that resulted in the loss of approximately 30,000 jobs in ... Read More »

October 29, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

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