Children and YA Fiction

★ Love-lies-Bleeding

Barbara Haworth-Attard has followed up her successful Home Child with a story inspired by her own family. After her father died in 1994, she found all the letters he’d written home during the Second World ... Read More »

October 21, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Down and Dirty Birding

By Joey Slinger

Down and Dirty Birding is downright hilarious. Which is not to say it isn’t informative and useful – it most certainly is. Slinger tells us about the birds in the trees in much the same ... Read More »

October 1, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Touched by Fire

By Irene N. Watts

This April, 1,127 people (most of them women) died in the collapse of a garment factory in Bangladesh. In March 1911, 146 workers (most of them women) died when fire ripped through the Triangle Shirtwaist ... Read More »

September 19, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Stowaways

By Meghan Marentette; Dean Griffiths, illus.

Rory Stowaway, a field mouse, has always wondered what really happened to his long-lost Grampa. But autocratic Papa has stifled questions about Grampa’s fate – as well as any impulses Rory, his brother Morgan, and ... Read More »

September 19, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Manager

By Caroline Stellings

In her latest YA novel, Caroline Stellings explores questions of tolerance and self-acceptance. Set in 1979, The Manager centres on Ellie and her boxing-obsessed sister, Tina, who suffers from achondroplasia, a genetic disorder marked by ... Read More »

September 19, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Little Red Lies

By Julie Johnston

Governor General’s Literary Award winner Julie Johnston knows how to speak to her audience. Rachel McLaren, the 14-year-old protagonist of Little Red Lies, is instantly relatable to any young reader struggling to find a place ... Read More »

September 19, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Rule of Thirds

By Chantel Guertin

In photography, the rule of thirds is a guideline for how photographs should be composed: as if on a grid of nine squares, with the subject falling across two of the three vertical planes. Chantel ... Read More »

September 19, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Urgle

By Meaghan McIsaac

Meaghan McIsaac’s debut middle-grade novel is the first book in her Brothers of the Ikkuma Pit series, about a group of boys who have been perplexingly abandoned at birth and must learn to create their ... Read More »

September 19, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Apparition

By Gail Gallant

Amelia Mackenzie, the 17-year-old protagonist of television writer and story-editor Gail Gallant’s debut novel, is keeping a couple of hefty secrets. The first is that she’s in love with her best friend, Matthew. The second ... Read More »

September 19, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

★ Audacious

By Gabrielle Prendergast

Gabrielle Prendergast’s sophomore YA novel is aptly named, both for the fierce spirit of its narrator, Ella, and the choice to tell her story entirely in verse. Prendergast delights in wordplay that fits Ella’s smarty-pants ... Read More »

September 19, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

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