In the Key of Dale

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

★ Water Love

By Natalie Hodgson and Rajean Willis; Sahle Robinson (ill.)

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 Rising

By Courtne Comrie

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

★ The Museum of Odd Body Leftovers: A Tour of Your Useless Parts, Flaws, and Other Weird Bits

By Rachel Poliquin and Clayton Hanmer (ill.)

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

★ Fox and Bear

By Miriam Körner

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

★ Love from Mecca to Medina

By S.K. Ali

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

Road of the Lost

By Nafiza Azad

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

★ Revenge of the Raccoons

By Vivek Shraya and Juliana Neufeld (ill.)

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

The Three Billy Goats Gruff

By Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen (ill.)

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

Ancient Ghosts: A Collection of Strange and Scary Stories from Northern Norway

By Edel Marit Gaino and Toma Feizo Gas (ill.); Olivia Lasky and Lea Simma (trans.)

Some say that ghost stories are as old as storytelling itself – that people would gather in darkness to weave tales of warning. With shadows dancing menacingly on their faces by the dim light of ... Read More »

October 12, 2022 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

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