The Birdman

By François Thisdale (ill.); Troon Harrison

Famous Canadian activist Alexander Milton Ross, known as “Birdman,” was an ornithologist and medical doctor who claimed to have assisted enslaved people escaping from the American South. Award-winning author Troon Harrison and veteran Montreal illustrator ... Read More »

November 22, 2018 | Filed under: Picture Books

Lost Boy

By Shelley Hrdlitschka

Seventeen-year-old Jon Nielsson has spent his entire life in Unity, a faith-based polygamous sect. He has already started to question the religion he has been brought up in since childhood when he is discovered kissing ... Read More »

November 19, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Ghost Road

By Charis Cotter

Ruth, the tween protagonist of Charis Cotter’s new novel, doesn’t know much about her family history. Her mother died suddenly when Ruth was only two years old, and her father doesn’t have a lot of ... Read More »

November 15, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Log Driver’s Waltz

By Jennifer Phelan (ill.); Wade Hemsworth

Almost 40 years after the The Log Driver’s Waltz appeared as a National Film Board animated vignette, Toronto illustrator Jennifer Phelan brings a thoughtful, female-driven interpretation of the classic folk song to a new generation ... Read More »

November 12, 2018 | Filed under: Picture Books

Black Beach

By Glynis Guevara

Glynis Guevara’s second novel, Black Beach, is set in the small fishing town of La Cresta on an unnamed Caribbean island. The story follows 16-year-old Tamera Woods through a period of transition. She’s struggling in ... Read More »

November 8, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

North to Benjamin

By Alan Cumyn

Stephanie is nobody’s idea of a good mother. She doesn’t hold down a job; she’s emotionally immature; she moves from man to man; she drinks. But she’s all the family 11-year-old Edgar has. At the ... Read More »

November 5, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

★ A Grain of Rice

By Nhung N. Tran-Davies

In the 2016 picture book Adrift at Sea: A Vietnamese Boy’s Story of Survival, authors Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch and Tuan Ho tell the story of six-year-old Tuan, who escaped from Vietnam with his mother and ... Read More »

November 1, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

★ Too Young to Escape: A Vietnamese Girls Waits to be Reunited with Her Family

By Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch; Van Ho

November 1, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Synchro Boy

By Shannon McFerran

Synchro Boy by Shannon McFerran is a queer YA novel with a lot of potential, which sadly it does not fulfill. While tackling important and complex issues for contemporary queer teens – gender policing, homo/biphobia, ... Read More »

November 1, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Fake Blood

By Whitney Gardner

In the graphic novel Fake Blood, Whitney Gardner – author of the 2018 Schneider Family Book Award winner You’re Welcome, Universe – dips a gentle toe into the thrills of vampire romance and ponders how ... Read More »

October 29, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

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