Kids’ Books

Clara Humble and the Not-So-Super Powers

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

King Baby

By Kate Beaton

Canadian cartooning superstar Kate Beaton follows up her stellar kidlit debut, The Princess and the Pony, with the story of a demanding infant who holds court over his entire family. The narration is delivered in ... Read More »

August 8, 2016 | Filed under: Picture Books

A Squiggly Story

By Andrew Larsen; Mike Lowery (ill.)

A young wannabe author is coached by his more literate big sis to “Write what you KNOW.” The little guy knows his letters, but not many words, so he starts his story with a capital ... Read More »

August 8, 2016 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Griffin of Darkwood

By Becky Citra

The Griffin of Darkwood is an exciting, fanciful story filled with magical phenomena and gothic horror. Will Poppy loves to write stories, but when his mother dies, leaving him an orphan, he bitterly vows never ... Read More »

August 3, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

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