The Night Children

By Sarah Tsiang; Delphine Bodet (illus.)

Little ones may be even more reluctant to settle into bed once they hear what the Night Children get up to after dark. In Sarah Tsiang’s poetic tale, the mischievous kids (drawn by French illustrator ... Read More »

September 11, 2015 | Filed under: Picture Books

My Life Before Me

By Norah McClintock

Series are a popular choice for many young readers. Familiar elements – tone, setting, character, theme – welcome you back in the next book, offering a world in which you already feel comfortable. Orca Book ... Read More »

September 11, 2015 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Trouble is a Friend of Mine

By Stephanie Tromly

Former Los Angeles screenwriter Stephanie Tromly, now based in Winnipeg, marks her YA debut with an action-packed novel about teenager Zoe Webster, who finds herself downgraded from Manhattan living to a small town in upstate ... Read More »

September 11, 2015 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Leading Lines

By Chantel Guertin

The third novel in the Pippa Green series maintains the fun yet poignant standard set by author Chantel Guertin in the previous instalments. Though things aren’t great in Pippa’s life, Guertin never allows her story ... Read More »

September 11, 2015 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Heartache and Other Natural Shocks

By Glenda Leznoff

Playwright and artist Glenda Leznoff sets her sexy, honest story about a love triangle between three teens against the backdrop of the early 1970s and the FLQ crisis. Trouble begins when Jules Epstein’s anglophone mother ... Read More »

September 11, 2015 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Small Bones

By Vicki Grant

September 11, 2015 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Sistering

By Jennifer Quist

Jennifer Quist won the 2014 Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Emerging Artist Award for her first novel, Love Letters of the Angels of Death. Her follow-up, Sistering, explores the complex relationships of five sisters who are ... Read More »

September 9, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Light Years

By Caroline Woodward

When we embark on dream-chasing, life-altering decisions, we often look for signs and signals to guide us on our way. We imbue the smallest things with meaning, giving our choices purpose, attempting to prove, despite ... Read More »

September 9, 2015 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ Mouthquake

By Daniel Allen Cox

Daniel Allen Cox’s fourth novel, Mouthquake, is his most assured and accomplished to date. It opens on an anonymous young boy in Montreal who speaks with a stutter, conceives of himself as a German shepherd, ... Read More »

September 9, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Meadowlark

By Wendi Stewart

Bildungsroman are meant to offer readers an acceleration of personal development, beginning at a critical turning point in the central character’s young life and continuing to the elusive moment at which they greet adulthood. For ... Read More »

September 9, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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Quill and Quire

The Night Children

My Life Before Me

Trouble is a Friend of Mine

Leading Lines

Heartache and Other Natural Shocks

Small Bones

Sistering

Light Years

★ Mouthquake

Meadowlark

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