The Art of Getting Stared At

When a video made by 16-year-old Sloane Kendrick for a school project goes viral on YouTube, she is presented with the opportunity to apply to a prestigious film school. With only two weeks to complete ... Read More »

September 11, 2014 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Playing with Matches

By Suri Rosen

How could anything possibly go wrong when you’re just trying to make things right? That’s the question 16-year-old Raina Resnick is faced with when she gets herself into one messy situation after another in Suri ... Read More »

September 11, 2014 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

A Hole in My Heart

By Rie Charles

Why are saddle shoes wrong and loafers right? Nora Mackenzie’s not sure, but it’s 1959 and she knows that if she wants to fit in at her new school, the saddle shoes have got to ... Read More »

September 11, 2014 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

The Elevator Ghost

By Glen Huser; Stacy Innerst (illus.)

Carolina Giddle, an unusual woman with a pet tarantula named Chiquita and a penchant for spooky storytelling, moves into the supposedly haunted Blatchford Arms apartments in the latest middle-grade book from Governor General’s Literary Award ... Read More »

September 11, 2014 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

★ The Madman of Piney Woods

By Christopher Paul Curtis

.What makes Christopher Paul Curtis’s writing so funny? Reading the sequel to his Newberry Honor award-winning 2007 novel, Elijah of Buxton, I think I figured it out. Funny happens when the reader is thrown off ... Read More »

September 11, 2014 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Lockdown

By Maggie Bolitho

Residents of the West Coast know it is only a matter of when – not if – a large-scale earthquake will happen. In her debut novel, B.C. author Maggie Bolitho imagines the catastrophe through the ... Read More »

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

Wereduck

By Dave Atkinson

Charlottetown-based journalist Dave Atkinson attempts to bring a fresh perspective to the somewhat tired werewolf genre with his middle-grade debut. Kate, a teenager in a family of werewolves, comes of age and answers the call ... Read More »

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

Gottika

By Helaine Becker; Alexander Griggs- Burr (illus.)

In a new YA novel that draws heavily from Jewish folklore and history, Helaine Becker reveals a world in which cultural tensions are intentionally heightened by a sadistic ruler bent on wiping out a segment ... Read More »

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

The White Oneida

By Jean Rae Baxter

Born to European parents but captured and adopted by the Oneida as a young boy, 17-year-old Broken Trail is often referred to as the White Oneida. This dual identity, as well as his role in ... Read More »

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

Twist of the Blade: Shards of Excalibur, Book II

By Edward Willett

Regina-based author Edward Willett offers a satisfying second instalment in his Shards of Excalibur series, a modern-day fantasy based on the legend of King Arthur. Twist of the Blade picks up the story of high-school ... Read More »

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

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