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The Third Period Comeback

Hayley Rilko’s great-grandfather, “Greatest” William, was the kind of hockey player songs were written about: he led the Toronto Maple Leafs to four Stanley Cup wins in five years. But the Leafs have not won ... Read More »

October 14, 2026 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

★ Islanders

By Adrick Brock

Just off the shore of Canada’s largest city sits Toronto Island – actually a chain of islands – best known as a day-trip destination with an amusement park, beaches, yacht clubs, and an at-times-controversial airport. ... Read More »

October 7, 2026 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Like Glass

By Jen Ferguson

Tatum Nova Lambert, also known as “Tate,” is spending her vacation in the town of Chamonix in the French Alps, which is where her sister, Brownyn, died a year earlier. Her father, a Michelin-starred chef, ... Read More »

October 7, 2026 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Two Days in Mayaro

By Pamela Mordecai

Jamaican-Canadian Pamela Mordecai’s collection Two Days in Mayaro is steeped in the centuries-long economic, political, and cultural exchanges between Canada and Jamaica. From individual migration stories, such as that in the linguistically playful “Alvin’s Ilk ... Read More »

September 30, 2026 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

Too Hot to Tango

By E. E. Salo and Megan Kearney (ill.)

Sparks fly at summer camp when a soccer player volunteers to help a dancer nail an important end-of-summer audition in the sweet and spicy young adult romance graphic novel Too Hot to Tango. Stanford-bound Honey ... Read More »

September 30, 2026 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

★ Grotesque

By Elliott Dunstan

Grotesque, the stunning debut novel from Ottawa Valley writer Elliott Dunstan, begins with a brief exploration into the nature of the relationship between monsters and human beings: “Sometimes it seems to me that without the ... Read More »

September 23, 2026 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ A Thousand Nights

By Nafiza Azad and Intisar Khanani (eds.)

A Thousand Nights is an anthology of YA stories written by 16 Muslim women who reclaim narratives inspired by The Thousand and One Nights. Within its pages, one refugee meets another and another, and with ... Read More »

September 23, 2026 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Republic of Glass

By Catherine Leroux; Katia Grubisic (trans.)

Given the accelerating and overlapping crises that currently beset the world – the global ascent of the far right; galloping climate change; wars in Ukraine, Gaza, and Iran that threaten to spiral out of control; ... Read More »

September 16, 2026 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Monsters: Unsettling Short Stories

By Russell Smith (ed.)

“There are few English words with as many meanings,” writes editor Russell Smith in his introduction to the anthology Monsters: Unsettling Short Stories. Smith quickly outlines the etymological origins of the word, beginning with the ... Read More »

September 16, 2026 | Filed under: Anthologies

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