Sister Mine

Nalo Hopkinson’s fifth novel for adults delves into the areas of speculative fiction and the Caribbean oral tradition her writing is best known for. The story opens in Toronto, a setting that at first glance ... Read More »

March 25, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Blackwell Pages: Loki’s Wolves

By K.L. Armstrong and M.A. Marr

The most frightening aspect of apocalyptic stories is not the means by which the world will end, but the fact of the end itself. Continent-crushing tsunamis, giant meteors, and zombies are all very scary, but ... Read More »

March 19, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Lake and the Library

By S.M. Beiko

In S.M. Beiko’s florid debut, 16-year-old Ashleigh’s fantasy to escape her “bitter, broken” small town is finally about to come true: her chain-smoking nurse mother has announced they’ll leave at summer’s end. An incurable romantic, ... Read More »

March 19, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Path of Names

By Ari Goelman

Ari Goelman’s The Path of Names is a charming if somewhat complicated take on the summer-camp mystery novel, infused with Kabbalah mysticism and Gematria, a form of Jewish numerology based on the Hebrew alphabet. When ... Read More »

March 19, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Awesome, Almost 100% True Adventures of Matt & Craz

By Alan Silberberg

Novels featuring prose interspersed with comics (the Diary of a Wimpy Kid or Big Nate series, for example) are all the rage, though Canadian additions to this trend have been few and far between. Enter ... Read More »

March 19, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Allegra

By Shelley Hrdlitschka

Allegra is not just the title of Shelley Hrdlitschka’s newest novel for young readers, it is also the name of the protagonist and a piece of music that becomes the girl’s salvation and downfall. After ... Read More »

March 19, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

A Taste of Heaven

By Meg Tilly

The second middle-grade novel by Golden Globe Award–winning actress Meg Tilly features Madison Harriet Stokes, a Grade 5 student who lives in the sleepy town of Rosedale, Oregon. Life is pretty ordinary and uncomplicated for ... Read More »

March 19, 2013

In Lucia’s Neighborhood

By Pat Shewchuk; Marek Colek, illus.

There is much to love about In Lucia’s Neighborhood, the picture book by Pat Shewchuk and Marek Colek that grew out of the duo’s celebrated animated short film Montrose Avenue. Opening with an epigraph from ... Read More »

March 19, 2013 | Filed under: Picture Books

Gabby

By Joyce Grant; Jan Dolby, illus.

Gabby, a bespectacled little redhead, is cleaning up her playroom when a book falls off a shelf, causing chaos as letters bounce out of the pages and are strewn about the room. Gabby begins to ... Read More »

March 19, 2013 | Filed under: Picture Books

Mooncakes

By Loretta Seto; Renné Benoit, illus

Vancouver screenwriter and playwright Loretta Seto’s debut picture book is a lovely, touching story that functions well as both entertainment and an introduction to a snippet of Chinese culture. A young girl is preparing to ... Read More »

March 19, 2013 | Filed under: Picture Books

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