The Color of Silence

Liane Shaw’s poetic novel of grief and friendship examines the vast difference between how we perceive ourselves and how others perceive us. Wallowing in self-hatred following the accidental death of her best friend, 17-year-old Alex ... Read More »

May 21, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Whatever Doesn’t Kill You

By Elizabeth Wennick

At 15, Jenna has already had her fair share of misfortune, beginning with her father’s murder when she was just a few days old. Her mother, whose mind was permanently altered by a botched suicide ... Read More »

May 21, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Summer Days, Starry Nights

By Vikki VanSickle

Summer Days, Starry Nights is a love letter to summer, the 1960s, and the decade’s music, told through the story of 14-year-old Reenie Starr. More than anything, Reenie loves her family’s summer resort, Sandy Shores, ... Read More »

May 21, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

★ The Game, Book One: Rush

By Eve Silver

The proliferation of YA novels featuring girls who kick ass continues to grow. At their worst, these female-led stories are clichéd Hunger Games copycats. But at their best, as with Toronto author Eve Silver’s first ... Read More »

May 21, 2013

Community Soup

By Alma Fullerton

In this Stone Soup—flavoured story, a Kenyan school is busy with lunchtime preparations. While the teachers stir the broth, students pick vegetables from the community garden. Kioni is late – she’s looking for her goats, ... Read More »

May 21, 2013 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Dark

By Lemony Snicket; Jon Klassen, illus.

The Dark is a fantastic collision of literary phenomena: Lemony Snicket and Caldecott Medal winner Jon Klassen (This Is Not My Hat), who together create a story evoking the spooky old poem “In a Dark, ... Read More »

May 21, 2013 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ The Day My Mom Came to Kindergarten

By Maureen Fergus; Mike Lowery, illus.

Being a kid in kindergarten is tough, especially when your mom comes to spend the day at school. But in this delightful role-reversal tale, it’s Mom who acts out while her daughter hangs her head ... Read More »

May 21, 2013 | Filed under: Picture Books

Matadora

By Elizabeth Ruth

What does it mean to be a woman? To be alive? In her audacious third novel, Elizabeth Ruth examines such grand, universal questions through an historically specific mise-en-scène. Set in the days before the Spanish ... Read More »

May 13, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Origin of Feces: What Excrement Tells Us About Evolution, Ecology, and a Sustainable Society

By David Waltner-Toews

Shit – a mass-produced, quotidian product – is something that, for various cultural reasons, we don’t talk about much. For veterinarian and epidemiologist David Waltner-Toews, this is a mistake his new book aims to rectify. ... Read More »

May 6, 2013 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Travelling Light

By Peter Behrens

Most of this collection’s 23 short stories were published in Peter Behrens’ first book, 1987’s Night Driving; in an author’s note, Behrens says he revised “but tried to avoid rewriting” them. A cynic might suggest ... Read More »

April 29, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

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