Cat Champions: Caring for Our Feline Friends

Cats may have conquered the Internet, but every year thousands still end up homeless in shelters, sanctuaries, and feral colonies. Cat Champions is about some of the people – most of them kids – who ... Read More »

October 29, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Picture Me

By Lori Weber

Author of six previous YA books, Quebec’s Lori Weber returns with a novel that is not only a gripping story but also a bold experiment in narrative form. Picture Me takes what might otherwise have ... Read More »

October 29, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Spotted Dog Last Seen

By Jessica Scott Kerrin

Jessica Scott Kerrin, best known for her lauded Martin Bridge series, is back with another adventure book for boys. In The Spotted Dog Last Seen, readers are introduced to Derek Knowles-Collier, who fears that his ... Read More »

October 29, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Opposite of Geek

By Ria Voros

Fourteen year-old Gretchen Meyer treads lightly through the halls of Carver Green High School with her loyal pal Nemiah, rolling her eyes at the school’s tedious and shallow clique culture. So far she’s managed to ... Read More »

October 29, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

How to Curse in Hieroglyphics

By Lesley Livingston and Jonathan Llyr

Popular YA author Lesley Livingston makes her first foray into middle-grade territory with How to Curse in Hieroglyphics, the first book in the Wiggins Weird series. The supernatural tale, co-authored by Toronto actor and former ... Read More »

October 29, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Home Ice Advantage

By Tom Earle

Shame, embarrassment, and fear often keep us from exposing our psychological baggage to the masses, and the main characters in Tom Earle’s newest middle-grade novel are especially keen to keep their traumas under wraps. Twelve-year-old ... Read More »

October 29, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

★ Baygirl

By Heather Smith

Heather Smith, a Newfoundlander who now makes her home in Waterloo, Ontario, sets her debut novel against the backdrop of the 1992 cod fishing moratoriums that resulted in the loss of approximately 30,000 jobs in ... Read More »

October 29, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Camel in the Sun

By Griffin Ondaatje; Linda Wolfsgruber, illus.

Documentary filmmaker Griffin Ondaatje (son of Michael) enters the picture-book world with a quiet, spiritual story that introduces the concept of empathy to young readers. In this thoughtful take on a traditional tale that the ... Read More »

October 29, 2013 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Time for Flowers, Time for Snow

By Glen Huser; Philippe Béha, illus.

Combining striking illustrations, a dramatic story based on ancient myth, song lyrics, and a companion CD featuring a children’s operetta, Time for Flowers, Time for Snow is a fabulous multi-sensory thrill to be enjoyed by ... Read More »

October 29, 2013 | Filed under: Picture Books

Dead North: The Exile Book of Canadian Zombie Fiction

By Silvia Moreno-Garcia, ed.

Here’s the inherent problem with zombies, from a literary perspective: they’re boring. Mindless, shambling husks devoid of language or reason, they exist as creatures of pure instinct, with only one driving force: chomping on the ... Read More »

October 28, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

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