Kids’ Books

Peach Girl

By Raymond Nakamura; Rebecca Bender (illus.)

In his engaging debut, author Raymond Nakamura puts a feminist bent on the Japanese folk tale Momotaro (Peach Boy). In Nakamura’s version, a young girl emerges from a giant peach discovered on the doorstep of ... Read More »

June 24, 2014 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture 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

Cloudwalker

By Roy Henry Vickers and Robert Budd; Roy Henry Vickers (Illus.)

Illustrated by the much-honoured and beloved artist Roy Henry Vickers, Cloudwalker is a visually glorious book. Vickers and oral historian Robert Budd joined forces on last year’s lauded Raven Brings the Light, and with this ... Read More »

May 28, 2014 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

★ Rabbit Ears

By Maggie de Vries

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

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