November 15, 2022 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books
Since the death of their mother to cancer, 16-year-old Georgia Avis has been living with her older brother for more than a year and doing whatever it takes to make ends meet. She dreams of ... Read More »
Sixteen-year-old Dale Cardigan is a musical prodigy, plain and simple. He aced his latest Royal Conservatory exam. He plays the organ at the local church for pocket money. He plays piano at his lesbian friends’ ... Read More »
November 14, 2022 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books
The “giver of life” characteristic of water is proverbial. Yet for many people of African descent, particularly those in the diaspora, the water we swim in carries a darker history of enslavement and death. It ... Read More »
November 9, 2022 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books
Rain idolizes her 18-year-old brother, Xander (or as she likes to call him, X). Both intelligent and athletic, X has a scholarship to attend an elite high school where he plays on the football team ... Read More »
November 7, 2022 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books
Rachel Poliquin’s latest nonfiction title, The Museum of Odd Body Leftovers: A Tour of Your Useless Parts, Flaws, and Other Weird Bits, is both accessible and enjoyable, with a playful writing style that introduces the ... Read More »
November 2, 2022 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books
What happens when we overcomplicate things instead of simply living in the moment? Miriam Körner, who lives in a small cabin in Northern Saskatchewan surrounded by a vanishing old-growth forest, examines the idea of being ... Read More »
November 1, 2022 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books
It takes courage, patience, and hard work to sustain a romantic commitment – if you are brave enough to make one. There are no “happily ever afters,” except in fairy tales. Love from Mecca to ... Read More »
October 26, 2022 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books
Seventeen-year-old Croi – who appears as a small sprite known as a brownie – has lived her entire life in the Wilde Forest with the Hag, an emotionless guardian made of wood and stone. While ... Read More »
October 24, 2022 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books
Considering how frequently they’re given monikers like “furry masked bandits,” “trash pandas,” and “pests,” it seems no one has a kind word to spare for raccoons. Perhaps with good cause, as anyone who has tried ... Read More »
October 17, 2022 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books
If every fairy tale must have a moral, then the one in the much-loved, oft-retold Three Billy Goats Gruff would be something about the perils of deferred gratification (and, possibly, the virtuousness of vegetarianism). Get ... Read More »
October 17, 2022 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books