Kids’ Books

Every Hidden Thing

With his new novel, Toronto-based YA author Kenneth Oppel takes readers back in time for a high stakes, romantic adventure set against the classic backdrop of a bloody conflict between rival gangs of ... dinosaur ... Read More »

September 8, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Memoirs of a Sidekick

By David Skuy

In Memoirs of a Sidekick, David Skuy – best known for the young-adult sports titles Rocket Blues, Striker, and the Game Time series – changes tack to examine the dynamics of a middle-school presidential campaign ... Read More »

September 7, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Hungry Bird

By Jeremy Tankard

From three great talents in Canadian children’s literature come two picture books that highlight some of the more challenging aspects of childhood. In Jeremy Tankard’s Hungry Bird, Bird is hangry. In Hurry Up, Henry by ... Read More »

September 7, 2016 | Filed under: Picture Books

Clara Humble and the Not-So-Super Powers

By Anna Humphrey; Lisa Cinar (ill.)

Naughtiness is the lifeblood of the comic middle-grade novel, but it presents the writer with a problem in this age of didacticism: how can a kid get into energetic and imaginative trouble when adults are ... Read More »

August 23, 2016 | Filed under: Picture Books

When Morning Comes

By Arushi Raina

Forty years after the June 16, 1976, Soweto Student Uprising drew global attention to apartheid’s brutal system of repression, Arushi Raina’s debut novel, set in the weeks leading up to that fateful day, introduces readers ... Read More »

August 23, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Making it Right: Building Peace, Settling Conflict

By Marilee Peters

In her latest book, Vancouver author Marilee Peters looks closely at the concept of restorative justice. She provides convincing examples of why and how society can move away from the narrative of punishment as the ... Read More »

August 22, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

★ Girl Mans Up

By M-E Girard

Respect is the dominant theme that runs through Girl Mans Up, the latest novel from pediatric nurse and two-time Lambda Literary Fellow M-E Girard. The author explores the idea of respect for oneself, family, and ... Read More »

August 22, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Pandas on the Eastside

By Gabrielle Prendergast

Never underestimate the power of goodness to overcome that which others consider weaknesses: youth, poverty, lack of education, dysfunctional families. Ten-year-old Journey Song doesn’t. She looks beyond these things and the slummy side of her ... Read More »

August 16, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

A Boy Named Queen

By Sara Cassidy

Ten-year-old Evelyn’s life has always had a sameness about it: she lives in a brown, two-bedroom house among a row of brown, two-bedroom houses; her mother buys her stiff leather loafers at Frederick’s Footwear once ... Read More »

August 16, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

★ Once in a Town Called Moth

By Trilby Kent

A novel about a 14-year-old girl plucked from her strict Mennonite colony in the Bolivian jungle and plunked into a new life in downtown Toronto could easily overplay its hand and make an easy meal ... Read More »

August 15, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

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