★ Girl Mans Up

Respect is the dominant theme that runs through Girl Mans Up, the latest novel from pediatric nurse and two-time Lambda Literary Fellow M-E Girard. The author explores the idea of respect for oneself, family, and ... Read More »

August 22, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Pandas on the Eastside

By Gabrielle Prendergast

Never underestimate the power of goodness to overcome that which others consider weaknesses: youth, poverty, lack of education, dysfunctional families. Ten-year-old Journey Song doesn’t. She looks beyond these things and the slummy side of her ... Read More »

August 16, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

A Boy Named Queen

By Sara Cassidy

Ten-year-old Evelyn’s life has always had a sameness about it: she lives in a brown, two-bedroom house among a row of brown, two-bedroom houses; her mother buys her stiff leather loafers at Frederick’s Footwear once ... Read More »

August 16, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

★ Once in a Town Called Moth

By Trilby Kent

A novel about a 14-year-old girl plucked from her strict Mennonite colony in the Bolivian jungle and plunked into a new life in downtown Toronto could easily overplay its hand and make an easy meal ... Read More »

August 15, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

King Baby

By Kate Beaton

Canadian cartooning superstar Kate Beaton follows up her stellar kidlit debut, The Princess and the Pony, with the story of a demanding infant who holds court over his entire family. The narration is delivered in ... Read More »

August 8, 2016 | Filed under: Picture Books

A Squiggly Story

By Andrew Larsen; Mike Lowery (ill.)

A young wannabe author is coached by his more literate big sis to “Write what you KNOW.” The little guy knows his letters, but not many words, so he starts his story with a capital ... Read More »

August 8, 2016 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Griffin of Darkwood

By Becky Citra

The Griffin of Darkwood is an exciting, fanciful story filled with magical phenomena and gothic horror. Will Poppy loves to write stories, but when his mother dies, leaving him an orphan, he bitterly vows never ... Read More »

August 3, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

★ We Found a Hat

By Jon Klassen

It would be difficult to find a person possessed of even the slightest interest in children’s books published during the past decade who isn’t familiar with Jon Klassen. His two Hat books (2011’s I Want ... Read More »

August 3, 2016 | Filed under: Picture Books

A Day of Signs and Wonders

By Kit Pearson

One day can change everything. That is the premise of the latest middle-grade novel by Kit Pearson, winner of multiple awards for her children’s books, including a Governor General’s Literary Award for Awake and Dreaming ... Read More »

July 25, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Pain Eater

By Beth Goobie

At age 14, Maddy is gang raped by five boys from her school. She tells no one, suffering horribly in silence, trying to obliterate the memories by burning her skin with lit cigarettes. Months after ... Read More »

July 18, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

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