The Theory of Hummingbirds

The Grade 6 experience is vast in the sense that kids can be anywhere on the innocence spectrum. Some are still playing with toys and seeing the world through rose-coloured glasses while others are coming ... Read More »

July 13, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

★ The Blinds

By Adam Sternbergh

“Damnatio Memorae,” reads graffiti sprayed across the walls of a trashed workshop in the remote Texas town of Caesura, the setting for Adam Sternbergh’s taut conceptual thriller, The Blinds. “The condemnation of memory”: that ominous ... Read More »

July 12, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Holly Farb and the Princess of the Galaxy

By Gareth Wronski

There are worse sources for an author to borrow from than the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series by the late Douglas Adams. Though Adams was ostensibly writing for adults, his irreverent approach to the ... Read More »

July 12, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Clutch

By Heather Camlot

Not yet 13, Joey Grosser feels he must become the man of the house when his father dies. This means working at the family grocery store, helping his sick mother, and tending his younger brother, ... Read More »

July 4, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

A Mariner’s Guide to Self Sabotage

By Bill Gaston

The characters in Bill Gaston’s new story collection are almost all haunted by thoughts of what might have been, or else perched on the verge of making mistakes they’ll rue for years to come. But ... Read More »

July 4, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Hit the Ground Running

By Alison Hughes

In Hit the Ground Running, the latest YA novel from Alberta author Alison Hughes, protagonist Dee is told by her aunt that “every family needs an anchor.” At 16, Dee doesn’t expect to be that ... Read More »

July 4, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Sea Was in Their Blood: The Disappearance of the Miss Ally’s Five-Man Crew

By Quentin Casey

On February 17, 2013, five men set out from Woods Harbour, Nova Scotia, aboard a 12-metre fishing boat called the Miss Ally. Despite a non-functional spotlight and warnings that a massive winter storm was approaching, ... Read More »

July 4, 2017 | Filed under: History, Memoir & Biography

★ The Heavy Bear

By Tim Bowling

“I was as sane as any man in the twenty-first century can expect to be,” says the protagonist of The Heavy Bear, “dragging the bloodied pelt of the twentieth century behind him.” Prolific poet Tim ... Read More »

June 22, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Biometrics: Your Body and the Science of Security

By Ian Turner (ill.); Maria Birmingham

Biometrics: Your Body and the Science of Security offers a fun, futuristic look into the fascinating world of recognition technology. Maria Birmingham, author of A Beginner’s Guide to Immortality: From Alchemy to Avatars and longstanding ... Read More »

June 22, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Saints and Misfits

By S.K. Ali

In Saints and Misfits, the first YA novel from Simon & Schuster’s new Muslim-focused Salaam Reads imprint, Toronto author S.K. Ali delivers a contemporary coming-of-age story about a 15-year-old Arab-Indian-American girl named Janna Yusuf. Janna ... Read More »

June 22, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

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