Strutting It! The Grit Behind the Glamour

If you have any interest in fashion (and probably even if you don’t), you know of Jeanne Beker. The fashion media icon is back with a third title for teens, following The Big Night Out ... Read More »

March 30, 2011 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

You Just Can’t Help It! Your Guide to the Wild and Wacky World of Human Behavior

By Jeff Szpirglas; Josh Holinaty, illus.

That humans are weird (but fascinating) is the idea behind You Just Can’t Help It! by Toronto science writer and elementary school teacher Jeff Szpirglas. Billed as The Naked Ape meets Mad Magazine, the book ... Read More »

March 30, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Fostergirls

By Liane Shaw

Liane Shaw attempts to capture the turbulent inner life of an orphaned teenager in her new YA novel. Fifteen-year-old Sadie Thompson has spent most of her life in foster care; with no family placements available, ... Read More »

March 30, 2011

Fall for Anything

By Courtney Summers

Courtney Summers does not write lighthearted novels. Her first two books tackled rape, suicide, and social annihilation by former friends. In her third, Summers writes again about suicide, introducing readers to a girl grappling with ... Read More »

March 30, 2011

Shot at Dawn: World War I

By John Wilson

Shot at Dawn, the third novel in Scholastic Canada’s I Am Canada series, is told from the point of view of First World War soldier Allan McBride on the eve of his execution for desertion. ... Read More »

March 30, 2011

Accomplice

By Valerie Sherrard

On the heels of 2009’s Watcher, New Brunswick author Valerie Sherrard offers another sharp-edged novel for teens, this time with a story that exposes the emotional tricks of an addict and the tight bond between ... Read More »

March 30, 2011 | Filed under: Industry news

Blink & Caution

By Tim Wynne-Jones

Blink and Caution are a pair of teens living on the streets of Toronto. One morning, Blink, who exists on pilfered breakfasts from fancy hotels, gets off on the wrong floor of the wrong building ... Read More »

March 30, 2011 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Undergrounders

By David Skuy

David Skuy, author of the popular trilogy of Charlie Joyce hockey novels, returns to Canada’s national winter sport with his first stand-alone novel. This sensitively written and compelling book tells the story of Mouse, an ... Read More »

March 30, 2011 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Held

By Edeet Ravel

Seventeen-year-old Chloe Mills is in Greece on a summer volunteer work program when she is abducted by a couple who blindfold her, drug her, and take her by plane to another country. Worst case scenarios ... Read More »

March 30, 2011 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Fly Boy

By Eric Walters

Fly Boy tells the story of David “Robbie” McWilliams, an Ontario boarding school student who lies about his age to follow his father into the RCAF during the Second World War. As McWilliams works his ... Read More »

March 30, 2011 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

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