Books for Young People
Laughing Wolf
by Nicholas Maes
There are few themes quite so overused and abused in speculative fiction as time travel. It’s such a well-tilled field that few writers can produce...
The Awakening
by Kelley Armstrong
As the second book in Kelley Armstrong’s The Darkest Powers trilogy opens, 15-year-old Chloe Saunders is still clinging, albeit precariously, to the notion that...
Dracula Madness
by Mary Labatt; Jo Rioux, illus.
Soccer Sabotage
by Liam O’Donnell; Mike Deas, illus.
It used to be that there was a pretty strong dividing line between comic books and “real” books. When we were kids, books were revered,...
A World Full of Ghosts
by Charis Cotter; Marc Mongeau, illus.
Ghost books, along with animal books and dinosaur books, are always hot with young readers. A World Full of Ghosts brings spectral beings from around...
Canadian Sports
by Susan Hughes
Does every Canadian kid know we have two official national sports: lacrosse (summer) and hockey (winter)? Do they know lacrosse gets its name from the...
Just a Minute! Adventure in Time
by Jeff Szpirglas; Stephen MacEachern, illus.
Young people often have difficulty thinking about time in the relative sense. Just how long is a minute, or a week, or a month, anyway?...
Who Lives Here? Forest Animals
by Deborah Hodge; Pat Stephens, illus.
This is the fifth in the Kids Can Press Who Lives Here? series by author and former educational consultant Deborah Hodge. As in the other...
Working for Freedom: The Story of Josiah Henson
by Rona Arato
Josiah Henson was born a slave in Maryland in 1789. He watched his father get whipped, was sold three times, and was himself beaten for...
Bank Job
by James Heneghan and Norma Charles
Bank Job is the story (apparently based on a true one) of three teens who decide to rob banks in order to raise $10,000 – not...
Wolf Pack of the Winisk River
by Paul Brown
It might be a tad cynical, but it’s all the same difficult to shake the impression that Wolf Pack of the Winisk River, the first...
Wanting Mor
by Rukhsana Khan
As strange and faraway a place as Afghanistan may be to most Canadian readers, in Rukhsana Khan’s contemporary story it has a fairy-tale familiarity –...
The Battle for Duncragglin
by Andrew H. Vanderwal
First-time author Andrew Vanderwal knows what the pre-teen set wants in their historical fiction: danger, action, camaraderie, and enough period detail to satisfy any future...
My Parents Are Sex Maniacs: A High School Horror Story
by Robyn Harding
Meet Louise Harrison, the smart, sensitive, big-boned hero of Vancouver author Robyn Harding’s first novel for teens, My Parents Are Sex Maniacs. Dreaming of being...
La Primera: The Story of Wild Mustangs
by Ian Tyson; Adeline Halvorson, illus.
La Primera is an attractive pairing of a song by Canadian folk-music legend Ian Tyson and a set of paintings by Saskatchewan-born Adeline Halvorson. Following...
Lord of the Sky
by Linda Zeman-Spaleny; Ludmila Zeman, illus.
This book is a family project that began life as a 1991 animated short film. First-time author Linda Zeman-Spaleny is the daughter of Ludmila Zeman...
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