Children and YA Fiction

★ Rabbit Ears

Something is terribly wrong with 13-year-old Kaya. Her older sister, Beth, is both terrified and frustrated by Kaya’s acting out – running off, shoplifting, skipping school, and, eventually, getting into drugs. What at first appears ... Read More »

May 28, 2014 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

★ God Loves Hair

By Vivek Shraya; Juliana Neufeld (illus.)

Toronto artist Vivek Shraya’s debut (originally self-published in 2011) is a rich and powerful exploration of gender, sexuality, religion, race, and the desire to fit in. Told in 21 short entries punctuated by Juliana Neufeld’s ... Read More »

May 28, 2014 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

The Comic Book War

By Jacqueline Guest

While out cycling on Calgary’s Nose Hill, 15-year-old Robert Tourond finds a meteorite. It is 1943 and Robert is far from the war raging in Europe and Asia, but the meteorite seems to represent a ... Read More »

May 28, 2014 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Stealing Time

By Anne Dublin

In Stealing Time, the latest book from Toronto author Anne Dublin, 12-year-old Jonah is having difficulty adjusting to his parents’ divorce and accepting his father’s recent remarriage. He is jealous of his father’s new family, ... Read More »

May 28, 2014 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Revenge on the Fly

By Sylvia McNicoll

In veteran children’s author Sylvia McNicoll’s new book, grief and anger are the overriding emotions 12-year-old Will Alton feels over the loss of his baby sister and mother to illness in the family’s native Ireland, ... Read More »

May 28, 2014 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Face-Off

By Michael Betcherman

As starting goalie for Team British Columbia in an international hockey tournament, the last thing 17-year-old Alex Petrovic expects is to come face-to-face with his long-lost identical twin. But that’s exactly what happens when he ... Read More »

May 28, 2014 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Skraelings: Arctic Moon Magick, Book 1

By Rachel Qitsualik-Tinsley and Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley; Andrew Trabbold (illus.)

The protagonist of Skraelings, a short novel by Rachel and Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley, is Kannujaq, a young Inuit man living some time in the first millennium. Kannujaq stumbles across a community of Tuniit, a mysterious Arctic ... Read More »

May 28, 2014 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Millhouse

By Natale Ghent

Millhouse is a hairless Guinea pig with a penchant for the theatre in Natale Ghent’s latest book for young readers. Milly, as he thinks of himself, is misunderstood and by turns horribly teased or shunned ... Read More »

May 28, 2014 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

The Night Gardener

By Jonathan Auxier

In this action-rich fantasy-adventure, Jonathan Auxier reaches into the grab bag of Victorian story conventions and pulls out a luxurious double handful. We’ve got a pair of waifs, Molly and her younger brother Kip. (Waifs ... Read More »

March 19, 2014 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Zomboy

By Richard Scrimger

From the moment Imre Lazar steps off the bus at his new school in small-town Dresden, Ontario, Grade 7 student Bob senses there’s something “off” about him. It isn’t until a freak accident involving a ... Read More »

March 19, 2014 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

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★ Rabbit Ears

★ God Loves Hair

The Comic Book War

Stealing Time

Revenge on the Fly

Face-Off

Skraelings: Arctic Moon Magick, Book 1

Millhouse

The Night Gardener

Zomboy

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