The Sound of Freedom

The Sound of Freedom is the story of Anna Hirsch, a 12-year-old Jewish girl in Krakow, Poland. The book begins in 1936. Anna, her friends, and family are worried about the rise of Hitler and ... Read More »

April 2, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

★ I left nothing inside on purpose

By Stevie Howell

An extended epigraph to Stevie Howell’s second collection cites a “note in the window of a Mercedes,” from which the book takes its title: “Do not smash glass. I left nothing inside on purpose.” While ... Read More »

April 2, 2018 | Filed under: Poetry

Krista Kim-Bap

By Angela Ahn

Navigating the ups and downs of friendship is never easy – particularly when on the cusp of adolescence. Two debut novels give voice to the experiences of girls growing apart from their BFFs. And both ... Read More »

March 29, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Running Through Sprinklers

By Michelle Kim

March 29, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

★ The Sparrow: Selected Poems

By A.F. Moritz

The opening poem in this new volume of selected work by A.F. Moritz claims, “I am at an age when words should be finished.” The Sparrow testifies to the fact that this is simply not ... Read More »

March 28, 2018 | Filed under: Poetry

A World Below

By Wesley King

The students in Edgewood Middle School’s Grade 8 advanced placement class aren’t feeling all that psyched about their graduation field trip. The kids, from small-town New Mexico, expected a weekend in Albuquerque – but their ... Read More »

March 26, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Marry, Bang, Kill

By Andrew Battershill

Andrew Battershill’s surrealist, genre-bending debut crime novel, 2015’s Pillow, was longlisted for the Sunburst Award and the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Three years later, Battershill returns with another offbeat thriller set in Victoria and on B.C.’s ... Read More »

March 26, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Rising Seas: Flooding, Climate Change and Our New World

By Belle Wuthrich (ill.); Kath Boake W. (ill.); Keltie Thomas

The term climate change often brings to mind unpredictable storms and unseasonable temperatures. But in Rising Seas: Flooding, Climate Change and Our New World, it’s clear that we’re in for more than stormy weather as ... Read More »

March 22, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Deep River Night

By Patrick Lane

Dread hangs like a shroud over Patrick Lane’s Deep River Night. The acclaimed Canadian poet’s second novel is set in and around a sprawling lumber facility in B.C. circa 1960. It’s a space where violence ... Read More »

March 22, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The 11th Hour

By Kristine Scarrow

“It is my wish that a book like this one helps to start a conversation about mental illness,” writes Saskatoon novelist Kristine Scarrow in the author’s note of The 11th Hour. This cautionary tale takes ... Read More »

March 15, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

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