Children and YA Fiction

Laura Monster Crusher

There’s a reason popular kids aren’t usually called upon to take up quests in middle-grade fantasy: all metaphor goes out the window. Where’s the satisfaction in seeing a well-liked, effortlessly capable 12-year-old take down evil ... Read More »

May 8, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Dingus

By Andrew Larsen

Life is changing for 11-year-old Henry, and not necessarily in ways he likes. He’s been okay with a baby brother arriving on the scene after 10 years of being an only child, okay with his ... Read More »

May 4, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Good Morning, Grumple

By Manon Gauthier (ill.); Victoria Allenby

Waking up in the morning can be a challenge, but less so if you have someone who knows just the right combination of tickles, songs, and kisses to get you up and out of bed. ... Read More »

April 24, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Bent Not Broken: Madeline and Justin (One-2-One series)

By Lorna Schultz Nicholson

Lorna Schultz nicholson’s third novel for Clockwise Press’s One-2-One series follows Madeline, a 14-year-old with a traumatic brain injury, and Justin, a high school senior still mourning his sister’s death, as they participate in their ... Read More »

April 24, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Phoebe Sounds It Out

By Denise Holmes (ill.); Julie Zwillich

Some kids’ books address thorny childhood issues by relocating the attendant angst to the animal world, or outer space, or lands of witchcraft and wizardry. Others, like Phoebe Sounds It Out, tackle problems head-on by ... Read More »

April 17, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

★ Town Is by the Sea

By Joanne Schwartz; Sydney Smith (ill.)

Town Is by the Sea introduces readers to the day-to-day reality of growing up in a mining town, as seen through the eyes of a young boy. The boy shares everything with readers, describing his ... Read More »

April 17, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Maud: A Novel Inspired by the Life of L.M. Montgomery

By Melanie J. Fishbane

For those of us who grew up enthralled with Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables, details about Montgomery herself always seemed superfluous. Wasn’t Anne enough? A character vivid and realized, her life story so ... Read More »

April 3, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Kings of the Court

By Alison Hughes

Edmonton author Alison Hughes’s latest book for young readers (her back catalogue includes picture books and other middle-grade and YA titles) tells the story of the Gladiators, a junior-high basketball team whose bully of a ... Read More »

April 3, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Hannah and the Magic Eye

By Tyler Enfield

With his fast-paced new novel, Edmonton writer and photographer Tyler Enfield introduces young readers to the harrowing world of archaeological treasure hunts, Dan Brown–style, but with a thought-provoking and humanist twist. When 12-year-old Hannah Dubuisson ... Read More »

March 27, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Finding Jade (Daughters of Light, Book 1)

By Mary Jennifer Payne

Mary Jennifer Payne embarks on an ambitious and creative project with this first instalment in a series, and nearly accomplishes her aim. The year is 2030 and our protagonist, Jasmine (Jazz) Guzman, lives in Toronto. ... Read More »

March 20, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

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