★ The Discovery of Flight

The Discovery of Flight is about two sisters who write. Twelve-year-old Sophie is keeping a journal for her Hebrew class in preparation for her bat mitzvah, and 16-year-old Libby is penning a secret fantasy story ... Read More »

June 27, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Pulse Point

By Colleen Nelson; Nancy Chappell-Pollack

Post-catastrophe dystopia-disguised-as-utopia narratives are a mainstay of literature for teens and have been for years. From The Giver to The Hunger Games, these stories feature citizens with their rights and freedoms subjugated for the “greater ... Read More »

June 25, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Oculum

By Philippa Dowding

June 25, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Sadie

By Courtney Summers

On the first page of Sadie, the reader is told exactly what to expect: “It’s a story about family, about sisters, and the untold lives lived in small-town America. It’s about the lengths we go ... Read More »

June 21, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Missing Mike

By Shari Green

In Missing Mike, Vancouver Island–based writer Shari Green, known for her award-winning middle-grade verse novels Root Beer Candy and Other Miracles and Macy McMillan and the Rainbow Goddess, mines the dynamics of loss, change, and ... Read More »

June 18, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

This Book Betrays My Brother

By Kagiso Lesego Molope

Naledi, the narrator of Kagiso Lesego Molope’s young adult novel, could be mistaken for a stereotypical North American teenage girl, obsessed with boys, clothes, and music. But Naledi comes from a township in South Africa ... Read More »

June 11, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Goodbye Girls

By Lisa Harrington

To profit or not to profit off of someone else’s heartbreak, that is the question at the core of The Goodbye Girls, a new YA novel by Lisa Harrington. The book’s high school characters have ... Read More »

May 29, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Black Chuck

By Regan McDonell

The debut novel from Toronto writer and graphic designer Regan McDonell begins in the aftermath of tragedy. The savage death of teenager Shaun Henry-Deacon – “the bloody grass, Shaun’s belly torn open, the police dog” ... Read More »

May 29, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Kasey & Ivy

By Alison Hughes

Life’s been pretty good to cerebral 12-year-old Katherine-Charlotte (Kasey) Morgan, until she discovers a steadily growing red lump on her ankle. After a bone scan, germophobe Kasey finds herself in the hospital with a serious ... Read More »

May 29, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Death by Dinosaur: A Sam Stellar Mystery

By Jacqueline Guest

Every generation or so, a Canadian children’s publisher or writer comes up with the notion of a mystery series set in various locations across the country. In the early 1960s there was the Secret Circle ... Read More »

May 28, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

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