Kids’ Books

Friends Are Friends, Forever

From Andrea Wang and Jason Chin’s Watercress to Thao Lam’s The Paper Boat to Chris Naylor-Ballesteros’s The Suitcase, explorations of the immigrant experience with messages about sharing kindness and the importance of love have found ... Read More »

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

#BlackInSchool

By Habiba Cooper Diallo

#BlackInSchool, the debut book by author and women’s health advocate Habiba Cooper Diallo, is a damning nonfiction account of the systemic anti-Black racism she observed and experienced during her last three years at a high ... Read More »

January 10, 2022 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books

Shelter: Homelessness in Our Community

By Lois Peterson; Taryn Gee (ill.)

This Orca Think nonfiction book aimed at middle-grade readers is an important and well-intentioned guide to homelessness that provides facts and statistics from across the United States and Canada. Peterson explains the root causes of ... Read More »

January 5, 2022 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books

My Words Flew Away like Birds

By Debora Pearson; Shrija Jain (ill.)

Toronto children’s author and librarian Debora Pearson offers a child’s-eye view of the challenges of moving to a new place in My Words Flew Away like Birds. Pearson, who works with newcomer families daily as ... Read More »

January 4, 2022 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

★ The Last Beautiful Girl

By Nina Laurin

Sixteen-year-old Isabella (Isa) Brixton, the protagonist of Montreal writer Nina Laurin’s chilling young-adult debut, is at the top of the world. She’s a popular junior at her Brooklyn high school, with close friends, understanding teachers, ... Read More »

December 14, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Song for the Snow

By Jon-Erik Lappano and Byron Eggenschwiler (ill.)

In the bio that appears in Jon-Erik Lappano’s first picture book, the sly and gorgeous Tokyo Digs a Garden, the term “environmentalist” comes before “storyteller.” This makes sense with respect to his Governor General’s Literary ... Read More »

December 8, 2021 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

★ Tahira in Bloom

By Farah Heron

Tahira Janmohammad has a plan: build her social media brand, catch the eye of style influencers, get into New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology, and make her House of Tahira fashion line a reality. When ... Read More »

December 6, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

The Midnight Club

By Shane Goth; Yong Ling Kang (ill.)

The Midnight Club follows sisters Becca and Milly as they roam their family home late at night while their parents sleep. Led by Oliver, the family cat, the Midnight Club has its own hand signals ... Read More »

November 30, 2021 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

The Degrees of Barley Lick

By Susan Flanagan

Formerly a couple, Barley and Phyllis, expert teenage geocachers (individuals who search for hidden objects using GPS coordinates) now compete as bitter rivals in geocache competitions. To make matters worse, Barley continues to grieve the ... Read More »

November 24, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Stealing Home

By J. Torres; David Namisato (ill.)

Told from the perspective of Sandy, a young baseball fan whose family is uprooted and transported to an internment camp by the Canadian government after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Stealing Home shows young ... Read More »

November 22, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

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