A World Below

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

Cobra Clutch

By A.J. Devlin

If professional wrestling is over the top, it’s not a stretch to assume that a novel set on the fringes of a western Canadian wrestling circuit would be, too. In that respect, A.J. Devlin’s debut ... Read More »

March 15, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Things Are Good Now

By Djamila Ibrahim

A pair of story collections from Djamila Ibrahim and Johanna Skibsrud shares one aspect in common: both are tightly organized around a central theme. Ibrahim’s debut collection focuses on the immigrant experience, as well as ... Read More »

March 15, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Tiger, Tiger

By Johanna Skibsrud

A Pair of story collections from Djamila Ibrahim and Johanna Skibsrud shares one aspect in common: both are tightly organized around a central theme. Ibrahim’s debut collection focuses on the immigrant experience, as well as ... Read More »

March 15, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

On Our Street: Our First Talk About Poverty

By Jaime Casap; Jane Heinrichs (ill.); Jillian Roberts

“Don’t ask kids what they want to be when they grow up; ask them what problem they want to solve,” says Jaime Casap, Google’s chief education evangelist. In their non-fiction resource book, Casap and psychologist ... Read More »

March 15, 2018 | Filed under: Picture Books