Fifteen Lanes

In her latest novel, S.J. Laidlaw gives us a poignant story of two girls who share a city but lead vastly different lives. Grace enjoys the luxurious lifestyle of an expat, though her shyness prevents ... Read More »

March 31, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Fluffy Strikes Back (A P.U.R.S.T. Adventure)

By Ashley Spires

After five books about Binky, the flatulent cat who yearns for intergalactic adventures, author-illustrator Ashley Spires launches a new spin-off series, introducing readers to Fluffy Vandermere, the head feline at P.U.R.S.T. (Pets of the Universe ... Read More »

March 29, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Away Running

By David Wright; Luc Bouchard

The new novel by Luc Bouchard and David Wright tackles the subject of racism and adversity faced by American football players in the early 2000s in Villeneuve, a poverty-stricken neighbourhood of Paris. Away Running also ... Read More »

March 21, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Look Out for the Fitzgerald-Trouts

By Esta Spalding; Sydney Smith (illus.)

Screenwriter, poet, and author Esta Spalding dips her toe into the ocean of children’s writing with her debut middle-grade novel, the first in a series about a family of loosely related children who have been ... Read More »

March 21, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Hot Pterodactyl Boyfriend

By Alan Cumyn

A cute new transfer student usually causes a fair bit of commotion in high school, but when that transfer student happens to be a dinosaur who should have been extinct for the last 65 million ... Read More »

March 10, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Saving Montgomery Sole

By Mariko Tamaki

Mariko Tamaki gives good misfit. In a YA field crowded with stock outcasts, Tamaki’s weirdos stand out for never being merely the sum of a few obvious quirks or emotions. Nor are they princes- and ... Read More »

February 29, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Hill

By Karen Bass

Alberta-based Geoffrey Bilson Award–winning author Karen Bass draws on the Cree legend of the Wîhtiko for her latest YA novel, which blends adventure, horror, and some good old-fashioned coming-of-age wisdom. En route to spend the ... Read More »

February 17, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Finding Hope

By Colleen Nelson

Cerebral, straight-laced 15-year-old Hope Randall is eager to leave her small town of Lumsville and escape her apathetic parents and 18-year-old meth-addicted brother, Eric. Once the town’s star hockey player and bound for the NHL, ... Read More »

February 8, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

★ Movers

By Meaghan McIsaac

Toronto author Meaghan McIsaac sets her novel in a near-future dystopia in which the world is dying as a result of pollution and overpopulation. The story centres around a boy named Pat. A “Mover,” Pat ... Read More »

February 8, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Skeleton Tree

By Iain Lawrence

Iain Lawrence knows a thing or two about adventure in the wilderness: he’s been a logger, a firefighter, and a fish farmer, among other things. The author brings the full force of this experience to ... Read More »

February 5, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

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