The Big Apple Effect

Christy Goerzen’s second novel featuring only child Maddie Turner finds the sensitive, artsy teen ecstatic when she’s named first runner-up in a portrait contest sponsored by her favourite art magazine. The prize includes $500 and ... Read More »

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

★ Totem

By Jennifer Maruno

Educator and author Jennifer Maruno’s previous novels include When the Cherry Blossoms Fell and Cherry Blossom Winter, both of which address the internment of Japanese-Canadians during the Second World War – a tragic, important event ... Read More »

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

Hexed

By Michelle Krys

The question regarding Michelle Krys’s debut novel is not whether it is derivative (it most certainly is), but whether the book brings anything original to the crowded field of paranormal romances aimed at teen girls. ... Read More »

June 24, 2014 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Saving Houdini

By Michael Redhill

The enduring mystique of Harry Houdini continues to fascinate Canadian writers. Steven Galloway’s new novel, The Confabulist, is, at least in part, a fictionalized account of the Montreal student some claim to have precipitated the ... Read More »

June 24, 2014 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

The Paper Sword

By Robert Priest

The new YA novel from Toronto-based writer, poet, and musician Robert Priest is a complex, perhaps overly ambitious tale of magic and politics that combines fantasy and horror elements within the context of a classic ... Read More »

June 24, 2014 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Finding Grace

By Becky Citra

Becky Citra’s Finding Grace is the latest instalment of the Gutsy Girl series of novels for middle-graders from Second Story Press, featuring girls who are “smart, brave, funny, and inspiring.” It’s the mid-1950s, and 11-year-old ... Read More »

June 24, 2014 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

The Door in the Mountain

By Caitlin Sweet

Caitlin Sweet, author of three previous novels for adults, makes her YA debut with The Door in the Mountain. The book tells of a world (inspired by ancient Crete) where beauty and violence rule, and ... Read More »

June 24, 2014 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

The Nethergrim

By Matthew Jobin

Canadian-born anthropologist Matthew Jobin launches his fiction career with a magic-filled quest in the classic mould. Our hero is young Edmund Bale, the eldest son of tavern owners who wants nothing more than to study ... Read More »

June 24, 2014 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Outside In

By Sarah Ellis

Sarah Ellis’s latest middle-grade novel tackles issues of waste, consumerism, and family in a Borrowers-style tale about close encounters between those who live in conventional society and those who exist outside of it. When she’s ... Read More »

June 24, 2014 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

★ Unspeakable

By Caroline Pignat

In the early hours of May 29, 1914, the ocean liner Empress of Ireland, bound from Quebec City to Liverpool, U.K., was struck midship by the Norwegian coal freighter Storstad in heavy fog. It took ... Read More »

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

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