Little Red Lies

Governor General’s Literary Award winner Julie Johnston knows how to speak to her audience. Rachel McLaren, the 14-year-old protagonist of Little Red Lies, is instantly relatable to any young reader struggling to find a place ... Read More »

September 19, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Rule of Thirds

By Chantel Guertin

In photography, the rule of thirds is a guideline for how photographs should be composed: as if on a grid of nine squares, with the subject falling across two of the three vertical planes. Chantel ... Read More »

September 19, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Urgle

By Meaghan McIsaac

Meaghan McIsaac’s debut middle-grade novel is the first book in her Brothers of the Ikkuma Pit series, about a group of boys who have been perplexingly abandoned at birth and must learn to create their ... Read More »

September 19, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Apparition

By Gail Gallant

Amelia Mackenzie, the 17-year-old protagonist of television writer and story-editor Gail Gallant’s debut novel, is keeping a couple of hefty secrets. The first is that she’s in love with her best friend, Matthew. The second ... Read More »

September 19, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

★ Audacious

By Gabrielle Prendergast

Gabrielle Prendergast’s sophomore YA novel is aptly named, both for the fierce spirit of its narrator, Ella, and the choice to tell her story entirely in verse. Prendergast delights in wordplay that fits Ella’s smarty-pants ... Read More »

September 19, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Francis the Little Fox

By Véronique Boisjoly; Katty Maurey, illus.

In an age when everything (including picture books) is being turned into an app, it is heartening to know that apps are also becoming books. Based on a French-language app, Francis the Little Fox recalls ... Read More »

September 19, 2013 | Filed under: Picture Books

Fox and Squirrel

By Ruth Ohi

Ruth Ohi’s latest picture book displays the same visual humour and comic timing that made her Chicken, Pig, Cow series so successful, but features a new cast of animals. Fox and Squirrel are best friends. ... Read More »

September 19, 2013 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Raven and the Loon

By Rachel Qitsualik-Tinsley and Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley; Kim Smith, illus.

In The Raven and the Loon, acclaimed Inuit author Rachel Qitsualik-Tinsley and her husband, Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley, draw on their knowledge of the culture to retell the traditional folktale of how the titular birds, originally sporting ... Read More »

September 19, 2013 | Filed under: Picture Books

Cataract City

By Craig Davidson

Craig Davidson’s superb storytelling skills, extreme plotlines, and unabashedly masculine take on human conflict have distinguished him from many of his literary contemporaries. He has also proved willing to freely borrow from such diverse genres ... Read More »

September 17, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Son of a Certain Woman

By Wayne Johnston

Percy Joyce, the protagonist of Wayne Johnston’s latest novel, is born with serious physical challenges: his face is discoloured by a large birthmark and his extremities are oversized. Percy’s ugliness is countered by the beauty ... Read More »

September 17, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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Little Red Lies

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★ Audacious

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Fox and Squirrel

The Raven and the Loon

Cataract City

The Son of a Certain Woman

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