Children and YA Fiction

Ship of Lost Souls

A pirate ship, a treasure map, and a crew of orphans: how could even the most reluctant young reader resist such a premise? In her first novel, author Rachelle Delaney, a graduate of the MFA ... Read More »

January 5, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Same Same

By Marthe Jocelyn; Tom Slaughter, illus.

The previous collaborations between Marthe Jocelyn and Tom Slaughter were elegant books that broke concepts of size or quantity down to their essence. Spare in text and image almost to the point of being like ... Read More »

January 5, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

When Elephants Fight: The Lives of Children In Conflict In Afghanistan, Bosnia, Sri Lanka, Sudan and Uganda

By Adrian Bradbury and Eric Walters

In Deborah Ellis’s most recent book, Off to War (Groundwood), she presents the real-life stories of Western children of soldiers who are serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. Though the stories are heartfelt, poignant, and disturbing, ... Read More »

December 4, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

★ Amelia Earhart: The Legend of the Lost Aviator

By Shelley Tanaka; David Craig, illus.

Seventy years after her disappearance, Amelia Earhart continues to excite our imaginations. In Amelia Earhart: The Legend of the Lost Aviator, award-winning writer Shelley Tanaka explores the famed aviator’s life, recounting her remarkable achievements both ... Read More »

December 4, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Incredibly Ordinary Danny Chandelier

By Laura Trunkey

B.C. author Laura Trunkey’s dryly funny debut novel is centred around the misadventures of Lily Brook Academy’s newest student, Danny Chandelier. Danny suffers from a malady most distressing: an astonishing capacity for adequateness. Eager to ... Read More »

November 3, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Getting the Girl

By Susan Juby

Most of the charm of Susan Juby’s newest novel for teens comes from the voice of her main character, Sherman Mack, one helluva kid living in Nanaimo, B.C., who thinks he can crack his high ... Read More »

November 3, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Wolf Man

By Edo van Belkom

Wolf Man, the fourth novel in Brampton, Ontario, writer Edo van Belkom’s Wolf Pack series, begins with an attack that has dangerous repercussions for the inhabitants – human, animal, and in-between – of Redstone, B.C. ... Read More »

November 3, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

★ The Boy Who Ate the World (and the girl who saved it)

By Don Gillmor; Pierre Pratt, illus.

Don Gillmor’s delightfully alarming new picture book begins with the absurd premise that a boy could eat up so much of the world that “The earth wasn’t even round any more. It was shaped like ... Read More »

November 3, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

Off to War: Voices of Soldiers’ Children

By Deborah Ellis

Author Deborah Ellis has built a reputation on writing stories that bring attention to the plight of the world’s marginalized children. She often visits developing or war-torn countries, sometimes at great risk to herself, to ... Read More »

October 29, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Shadow of Malabron

By Thomas Wharton

Teenager Will Lightfoot steals his father’s antique motorcycle and crashes spectacularly into an alternate world – the Perilous Realm, the place where all stories begin. And, as Will soon discovers, perilous it is – it’s ... Read More »

October 29, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

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