The Journey Forward, A Novella on Reconciliation: Lucy & Lola

The two stories that comprise this flipbook from B.C. publisher McKellar & Martin take a measured approach to teaching readers about the history of residential schools and the ongoing legacy of pain they caused, but ... Read More »

April 30, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Here So Far Away

By Hadley Dyer

Novels in which a “mature” teen girl falls for a much older guy are nothing new. The standard way of resolving the ill-fated love is that the guy ends up leaving town or dying, thereby ... Read More »

April 23, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Fire Song

By Adam Garnet Jones

In this YA adaptation of his 2015 feature film, Fire Song, Adam Garnet Jones offers up an array of real issues facing people living on reserves in Canada as seen through the eyes of teen ... Read More »

April 23, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Big Water

By Andrea Curtis

On Sept. 14, 1882, the steamship SS Asia sank in a storm on Georgian Bay. One hundred and forty passengers and crew died; the only survivors were two teenagers from Ontario, who spent three days ... Read More »

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

★ Ebb & Flow

By Heather Smith

In Heather Smith’s new middle-grade novel-in-verse, the wordplay grabs you first: “Jett, do you know what killed the cat?” “That’s a curious question Grandma – a dog?” So goes the back and forth between the ... Read More »

April 16, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Snuggly

By Glen Huser; Milan Pavlovic (ill.)

In the world of children’s literature, a debate persists: should stories be written to teach a lesson or simply to entertain? While some flock to books with sobering or inspiring instruction, others find these tomes ... Read More »

April 12, 2018 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Bloom: A Story of Fashion Designer Elsa Schiaparelli

By Julie Morstad (ill.); Kyo Maclear

Unique women find their voices and overcome naysayers in two picture-book biographies that follow their subjects from childhood to middle age. In Walking in the City with Jane, author Susan Hughes introduces us to a ... Read More »

April 9, 2018 | Filed under: Picture Books

Walking in the City with Jane: A Story of Jane Jacobs

By Susan Hughes; Valérie Boivin (ill.)

April 9, 2018 | Filed under: Picture Books

Elisapee and Her Baby Seagull

By Charlene Chua (ill.); Nancy Mike

Elisapee, a young Inuit girl, lives with her parents in a quaint seaside house. In the summer, her father often brings home baby birds on his boat, and one day he brings home a baby ... Read More »

April 5, 2018 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Sound of Freedom

By Kathy Kacer

The Sound of Freedom is the story of Anna Hirsch, a 12-year-old Jewish girl in Krakow, Poland. The book begins in 1936. Anna, her friends, and family are worried about the rise of Hitler and ... Read More »

April 2, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

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