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The Hypnotists

By Gordon Korman

The name Gordon Korman is synonymous with blockbuster. The kidlit icon’s plots are almost always drenched in action, suspense, cliffhangers, and delightful twists that barely straddle the line of believability, making him a kind of ... Read More »

August 1, 2013

Not Your Ordinary Wolf Girl

By Emily Pohl-Weary

Feeding the voracious demand for YA paranormal romance, Toronto author Emily Pohl-Weary’s Not Your Ordinary Wolf Girl is a quick, smart take on the genre. The story revolves around 18-year-old Sam, a paradoxically introverted rock ... Read More »

August 1, 2013

★ Wild Awake

By Hilary T. Smith

Kiri Byrd, the protagonist in Hilary T. Smith’s debut novel, is a gifted 17-year-old pianist living in Vancouver. She practices relentlessly, almost compulsively. When she’s not at the piano, she’s in her best friend Lukas’s ... Read More »

August 1, 2013

★ The Fall

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Authors have many good reasons for choosing to set their tales of teen angst in space or the distant past, or in worlds full of vampires, extraterrestrials, or sentient robots. One reason YA writers prefer ... Read More »

July 29, 2013

★ Hellgoing

By Lynn Coady

For several years, Lynn Coady – whose 2011 novel, The Antagonist, was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize – hosted a “group therapy” advice column for The Globe and Mail, an experience that may ... Read More »

July 15, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Short