BOOK REVIEWS

The Revenge Game

The trope of high school boys commodifying their sexual conquests isn’t new, and, since the #MeToo movement, neither is the storyline of high school girls fighting back. Jordyn Taylor presents her own take with The ... Read More »

November 22, 2023 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

★ No One Left But You

By Tash McAdam

When readers first meet Max, the protagonist of Welsh-Canadian writer Tash McAdam’s taut new novel No One Left But You, the 17-year-old skater and musician (and high school student) is in handcuffs and covered in ... Read More »

November 22, 2023 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Endgame: The Secret Force 136

By Catherine Little and Sean Huang (ill.)

Ten-year-old Alex plays Xiangqi, or Chinese chess, with his great-grandfather Tai Gong every time he visits him at the retirement home. No matter how hard Alex tries, he never seems to be able to beat ... Read More »

November 20, 2023 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Skating Wild on an Inland Sea

By Jean E. Pendziwol and Todd Stewart (ill.)

An astonishing, poetic picture book, Skating Wild on an Inland Sea, written by Jean E. Pendziwol and illustrated by Todd Stewart, tells the story of two siblings who wake at dawn to watch the sun ... Read More »

November 20, 2023 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

★ Held

By Anne Michaels

Anne Michaels’s new novel opens on a battlefield in France in 1917, as John lies wounded in the snow. The dozens of short passages, some as concise as two words (“Memory seeping”), capture John’s experience, ... Read More »

November 15, 2023 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Goddess Crown

By Shade Lapite

Following in the footsteps of Tomi Adeyemi, Deborah Falaye, and Namina Forna, Shade Lapite blends danger and court intrigue in Goddess Crown to create a coming-of-age novel set in an entirely Afrocentric fantasy world. Raised ... Read More »

November 15, 2023 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

★ Beryl: The Making of a Disability Activist

By Dustin Galer

A good biography is like a dollhouse, the kind where you can swing open one side and see the rooms in a sort of cross-section. You can lean back and see how the thing works ... Read More »

November 14, 2023 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

The Imaginary Alphabet

By Sylvie Daigneault

Sylvie Daigneault’s The Imaginary Alphabet is a love letter to letters, playfulness, and wild imagination. A picture book featuring one letter per page with a single (and wonderfully silly) alliterative line of text that inspires ... Read More »

November 13, 2023 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

By the Ghost Light: Wars, Memory, and Families

By R.H. Thomson

What insights emerge when we linger by the ghost light? Whose stories impress us with their significance, and whose spirits speak to us? These are questions that Canadian actor and playwright R.H. Thomson extends to ... Read More »

November 8, 2023 | Filed under: History, Memoir & Biography, Reviews

Are You Willing to Die for the Cause?

By Chris Oliveros

In the first of a planned two-volume graphic history of the FLQ (Front de libération du Québec), Chris Oliveros, cartoonist and founder of renowned publishing house Drawn & Quarterly, brings to life the many personalities whose ... Read More »

November 8, 2023 | Filed under: Graphica, History, Reviews

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