Children and YA Fiction

Guardian

Your very first kiss is thrilling – especially when it’s with the dreamy guy you’ve been lusting after for weeks. But it’s a bit difficult to enjoy the occasion with the huge, bloody ghost of ... Read More »

January 7, 2015 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Bone Deep: A Peggy Henderson Adventure

By Gina McMurchy-Barber

The third, highly flawed, book in Gina McMurchy-Barber’s Peggy Henderson Adventure series moves the archaeologically themed action from land to sea. After touring the Vancouver Maritime Museum and meeting an enthusiastic young guide, 13-year-old Peggy, ... Read More »

November 19, 2014 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

When Everything Feels Like the Movies

By Raziel Reid

In When Everything Feels Like the Movies, DailyXtra.com columnist Raziel Reid tells the story of a genderqueer 15-year-old struggling to survive junior high. According to Jude, the school’s population can be divided into three categories: ... Read More »

November 19, 2014 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

The Ghost and Max Monroe, Case #1: The Magic Box

By L.M. Falcone; Kim Smith (illus.)

In this first entry of a projected series, L.M. Falcone offers up a light comic mystery. Max Monroe is staying with his grandfather, Harry, when he hears crying in Harry’s coach house. The weeper turns ... Read More »

November 19, 2014 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

A Simple Case of Angels

By Caroline Adderson

Versatile author Caroline Adderson astutely captures the range of emotions and perspectives of young adolescents as they awaken to a grown-up world in her latest effort for middle-grade readers. In A Simple Case of Angels, ... Read More »

November 19, 2014 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Sleeper (The Seven Sequels)

By Eric Walters

With more than 100,000 copies sold of the original books in Seven (The Series), it is no surprise that Orca Book Publishers is releasing a second offering of seven more books featuring the same characters ... Read More »

November 19, 2014 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Bone, Fog, Ash and Star: The Last Days of Tian Di, Book 3

By Catherine Egan

When readers met Eliza Tok in Shade and Sorceress, the first instalment of Catherine Egan’s Last Days of Tian Di series, she was a 12-year-old just getting used to the magical world she had been ... Read More »

November 19, 2014 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

★ Audrey (Cow)

By Dan Bar-el; Tatjana Mai-Wyss (illus.)

Animal Farm meets The Great Escape – without the heavy political subtext – in Dan Bar-el’s latest novel for middle-graders. The author of Nine Words Max and Not Your Typical Dragon opens with a series ... Read More »

November 19, 2014 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

★ The Death of Us

By Alice Kuipers

The Death of Us is, superficially, a story about a love triangle gone horribly wrong, but YA author Alice Kuipers proves that even the most standard devices can be shaped into something rich and intriguing. ... Read More »

November 19, 2014 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Kiss Kill Vanish

By Jessica Martinez

After 17-year-old Valentina Cruz witnesses her boyfriend Emilio shooting a man on the orders of her wealthy and respected art-dealer father, she abandons her privileged life in Miami and runs away to Montreal, where she ... Read More »

October 14, 2014 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

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