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Revenge on the Fly

In veteran children’s author Sylvia McNicoll’s new book, grief and anger are the overriding emotions 12-year-old Will Alton feels over the loss of his baby sister and mother to illness in the family’s native Ireland, ... Read More »

May 28, 2014 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Face-Off

By Michael Betcherman

As starting goalie for Team British Columbia in an international hockey tournament, the last thing 17-year-old Alex Petrovic expects is to come face-to-face with his long-lost identical twin. But that’s exactly what happens when he ... Read More »

May 28, 2014 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Skraelings: Arctic Moon Magick, Book 1

By Rachel Qitsualik-Tinsley and Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley; Andrew Trabbold (illus.)

The protagonist of Skraelings, a short novel by Rachel and Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley, is Kannujaq, a young Inuit man living some time in the first millennium. Kannujaq stumbles across a community of Tuniit, a mysterious Arctic ... Read More »

May 28, 2014 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Millhouse

By Natale Ghent

Millhouse is a hairless Guinea pig with a penchant for the theatre in Natale Ghent’s latest book for young readers. Milly, as he thinks of himself, is misunderstood and by turns horribly teased or shunned ... Read More »

May 28, 2014 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Life or Death: Surviving the Impossible

By Larry Verstraete

It’s hard to believe something as simple as a first-aid app could turn a potential tragedy into a survival story, but Larry Verstraete, the seasoned author of high-action non-fiction titles such as At the Edge, ... Read More »

May 28, 2014 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books

It’s Catching: The Infectious World of Germs and Microbes

By Jennifer Gardy; Josh Holinaty (illus.)

Dr. Jennifer Gardy is a bit of a science rock star. A frequent speaker and sometime guest host of CBC’s The Nature of Things, and an accomplished epidemiologist with many scholarly publications to her name, ... Read More »

May 28, 2014 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books

The Lion and the Bird

By Marianne Dubuc; Claudia Z. Bedrick (trans.)

From Quebec illustrator and author Marianne Dubuc, The Lion and the Bird is a sweetly sentimental tale about friendship, the passing of time, and letting go. One autumn day, Lion is working in his garden ... Read More »

May 28, 2014 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

★ Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress

By Christine Baldacchino; Isabelle Malenfant (illus.)

Morris Micklewhite is an imaginative little boy who loves pancakes, painting, singing, and his cat, Moo. His favourite part of school is the dress-up centre – the beautiful tangerine dress he puts on there reminds ... Read More »

May 28, 2014 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

★ This One Summer

By Mariko Tamaki; Jillian Tamaki (illus.)

Other than when they are written by actual children (which happens, sometimes), novels about childhood are essentially works of historical fiction. Once you grow up, youth becomes the territory of the distant past. Some authors ... Read More »

May 28, 2014 | Filed under: Graphica, Kids’ Books

★ Just Beneath My Skin

By Darren Greer

For a book that runs barely more than 200 pages, and is constructed of chapters seldom longer than a page or two, Just Beneath My Skin manages to compress a lot of big themes into ... Read More »

May 26, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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Quill and Quire

Revenge on the Fly

Face-Off

Skraelings: Arctic Moon Magick, Book 1

Millhouse

Life or Death: Surviving the Impossible

It’s Catching: The Infectious World of Germs and Microbes

The Lion and the Bird

★ Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress

★ This One Summer

★ Just Beneath My Skin

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