Perfect World

Halifax writer Ian Colford is very good at crafting scenes of violence. His previous novel, The Crimes of Hector Tomás, contains a sequence in which the central character is strapped to a metal bedframe and ... Read More »

May 17, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Nowhere with You: The East Coast Anthems of Joel Plaskett, the Emergency and Thrush Hermit

By Josh O'Kane

Every city has a few hidden destinations where hormonally charged teenagers congregate to drink, smoke, fight, and screw around without the threat of adult intervention. Though Joel Plaskett never really partook in the debauchery – ... Read More »

May 17, 2016 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Ferryland Visitor: A Mysterious Tale

By Charis Cotter; Gerald L. Squires (illus.)

In the early 1970s, artist Gerald Squires, his wife, Gail, and daughters, Esther and Meranda, moved into an abandoned lighthouse-keeper’s cottage in Ferryland, Newfoundland. Not long after settling in, just before Halloween, an unexpected visitor ... Read More »

May 17, 2016 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Stone Thrower

By Jael Ealey Richardson; Matt James (illus.)

As a young boy, future Canadian Football League quarterback Chuck Ealey perfected his throw by aiming stones at the trains that passed through his segregated Ohio neighbourhood. It was the 1950s and Chuck was African-American ... Read More »

May 17, 2016 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Sophie Quire and the Last Storyguard

By Jonathan Auxier

Jonathan Auxier’s first book, Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes, was a fast-moving and wildly inventive tale of a blind 10-year-old master thief who becomes the king of a magical realm with the help of ... Read More »

May 17, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Dark Missions of Edgar Brim

By Shane Peacock

With The Dark Missions of Edgar Brim, Shane Peacock – author of the Boy Sherlock Holmes series – introduces readers to a new trilogy, a 19th-century gothic thriller featuring the eponymous Brim. It’s a strong ... Read More »

May 17, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

How It Ends

By Catherine Lo

Author Catherine Lo's debut novel tells the story of Jessie and Annie, two 15-year-olds who become fast friends when Annie, a downtown girl, moves to the suburbs where Jessie’s lived all her life. Jessie is ... Read More »

May 17, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Flickers

By Arthur Slade

The first thing that strikes you about Arthur Slade’s writing is that the Saskatchewan author doesn’t “write down” to children. Flickers, Slade’s latest middle-grade novel, treats readers as intelligent beings, capable of complex thought and ... Read More »

May 17, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Odd One Out

By Betty Jane Hegerat

Told from the perspective of 15-year-old Rufus (Roof) Peters, author Betty Jane Hegerat’s Odd One Out is the story of how his family weathers and survives the revelation of long-held secrets. Life in the Peters ... Read More »

May 17, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Worms for Breakfast: How to Feed a Zoo

By Helaine Becker; Kathy Boake (illus.)

Toronto author Helaine Becker serves up a treat with her latest offering, Worms for Breakfast. The book covers the gamut of what and how zoo animals eat, from the insects favoured by nocturnal pangolins to ... Read More »

May 17, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

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