Children and YA Fiction

The Ehrich Weisz Chronicles, Book One: Demon Gate

In Demon Gate, the first volume of the Ehrich Weisz Chronicles, Edmonton playwright and author Marty Chan takes on parallel dimensions, alternate histories, conspiracies, and aliens with a dash of steampunk. The result is engaging, ... Read More »

February 18, 2014 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Unseemly Education of Anne Merchant

By Joanna Wiebe

Victoria author Joanne Wiebe’s debut is a page-turning supernatural story full of vividly painted characters and thrilling plot twists worthy of a good horror movie. Death is part of everyday life for 16-year-old Anne Merchant: ... Read More »

February 18, 2014 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Rule of Three

By Eric Walters

Imagine every computer suddenly dying. No tablets, no cellphones, no ATMs. Most cars and planes are suddenly out of commission. All systems that rely on computers – including utilities – grind to a halt. This ... Read More »

February 18, 2014 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

★ The Strange Gift of Gwendolyn Golden

By Philippa Dowding

This lively, fast-paced novel by Philippa Dowding (author of the Lost Gargoyle series) moves fluidly from the whimsical to the fantastical and takes an intriguing detour to some dark places in between. Thirteen-year-old Gwendolyn Golden ... Read More »

February 18, 2014 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Stained

By Cheryl Rainfield

Young adult fiction has always been an uneasy genre. When authors write for adults, we’re writing for each other. When we write for children, we’re writing for another tribe. We have connections to this tribe, ... Read More »

November 13, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Night Wanderer: A Graphic Novel

By Drew Hayden Taylor; adapted by Alison Kooistra; Michael Wyatt, illus.

In the 16 years since Buffy the Vampire Slayer first stalked the airwaves, the trope of the teenage girl falling for an ancient vampire has grown from clever inversion to cliché (see: Twilight, Vampire Diaries, ... Read More »

November 13, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Lives of Magic

By Lucy Leiderman

T oronto author Lucy Leiderman’s debut YA novel tells the story of 17-year-old Gwen Carlisle. On her way to her first day at a new high school in Oregon, Gwen realizes she is being followed ... Read More »

November 13, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Screech Owls: Panic in Pittsburgh

By Roy MacGregor

The latest instalment of veteran sports journalist Roy MacGregor’s Screech Owls series (there are now more than 20) exposes young readers to timely topics such as terrorism, hockey safety, and cultural diversity within the framework ... Read More »

November 13, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Creature Department

By Robert Paul Weston

What if the leading minds in technology were not Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, but giants and monsters with their own periodic table and laws of physics? In The Creature Department, author Robert Paul Weston imagines a ... Read More »

November 13, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Morven and the Horse Clan

By Luanne Armstrong

Taking as her setting 3,500 BC Eurasia (in present-day Kazakhstan), Luanne Armstrong weaves a story of a young woman who befriends and tames the wild horses of the steppes. Although fictional, Armstrong’s tale is based ... Read More »

November 13, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

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The Ehrich Weisz Chronicles, Book One: Demon Gate

The Unseemly Education of Anne Merchant

The Rule of Three

★ The Strange Gift of Gwendolyn Golden

Stained

The Night Wanderer: A Graphic Novel

Lives of Magic

Screech Owls: Panic in Pittsburgh

The Creature Department

Morven and the Horse Clan

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