Children and YA Fiction

Boys and Girls Screaming

Can bringing together a group of traumatized friends and school acquaintances help eight teenagers overcome their struggles and move on with their lives? This is the premise of Kern Carter’s latest novel, Boys and Girls ... Read More »

March 15, 2022 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Moonwalking

By Zetta Elliott and Lyn Miller-Lachmann

Set in Brooklyn at the height of the Reagan era, Moonwalking follows two boys, JJ and Pie, as they navigate a world entrenched in the political and racial mire of a deeply divided America. Pie ... Read More »

March 9, 2022 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

A Rush of Wings

By Laura E. Weymouth

For as long as she can remember, Rowena has heard the wind speaking to her, and has known that magic lives inside her – a magic her mother Mairead deems Rowena too hotheaded to master. ... Read More »

February 7, 2022 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Meranda and the Legend of the Lake

By Meagan Mahoney

Family secrets, fantastical beings, and authentic identities rise to the surface in Meranda and the Legend of the Lake, an absorbing middle-grade novel by Calgary-based debut author and pediatric intensive care physician Meagan Mahoney. The ... Read More »

January 18, 2022 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Friends Are Friends, Forever

By Dane Liu and Lynn Scurfield; ill.

From Andrea Wang and Jason Chin’s Watercress to Thao Lam’s The Paper Boat to Chris Naylor-Ballesteros’s The Suitcase, explorations of the immigrant experience with messages about sharing kindness and the importance of love have found ... Read More »

January 12, 2022 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

★ The Last Beautiful Girl

By Nina Laurin

Sixteen-year-old Isabella (Isa) Brixton, the protagonist of Montreal writer Nina Laurin’s chilling young-adult debut, is at the top of the world. She’s a popular junior at her Brooklyn high school, with close friends, understanding teachers, ... Read More »

December 14, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

★ Tahira in Bloom

By Farah Heron

Tahira Janmohammad has a plan: build her social media brand, catch the eye of style influencers, get into New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology, and make her House of Tahira fashion line a reality. When ... Read More »

December 6, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

The Degrees of Barley Lick

By Susan Flanagan

Formerly a couple, Barley and Phyllis, expert teenage geocachers (individuals who search for hidden objects using GPS coordinates) now compete as bitter rivals in geocache competitions. To make matters worse, Barley continues to grieve the ... Read More »

November 24, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Stealing Home

By J. Torres; David Namisato (ill.)

Told from the perspective of Sandy, a young baseball fan whose family is uprooted and transported to an internment camp by the Canadian government after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Stealing Home shows young ... Read More »

November 22, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Death & Sparkles

By Rob Justus

Rob Justus’s latest graphic novel is about Sparkles, universally famous and adored, and Death, loathed by humankind. When Death arrives at a bustling metropolis to claim the soul of Sparkles, the last unicorn, an adventure ... Read More »

November 10, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

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