Books for Young People

Roslyn Rutabaga and the Biggest Hole on Earth!

by Marie-Louise Gay
It’s impossible not to smile when reading a book by Marie-Louise Gay. The beloved author and illustrator has a rare gift for seeing into the...

A Flock of Shoes

by Sarah Tsiang; Qin Leng, illus.
Where do flip flops go during the winter? In Abby’s case, her beloved brown-and-pink sandals slip off her feet one fall day and fly south...

Zombiekins

by Kevin Bolger; Aaron Blecha, illus.
The march of zombies through pop culture is unstoppable. With Zombiekins, the new novel from Sir Fartsalot Hunts the Booger author Kevin Bolger, the undead...

The Salmon Bears: Giants of the Great Bear Rainforest

by Ian McAllister and Nicholas Read
The Great Bear Rainforest sounds like the stuff of fantasy – a vast wilderness inhabited by creatures such as the Moksgm’ol, the Tsimshian name for...

Not Your Typical Book About the Environment

by Elin Kelsey; Clayton Hanmer, illus.
Author Elin Kelsey and illustrator Clayton Hanmer lay their brightly coloured cards on the table on page one of Not Your Typical Book About the...

Animal Snoops: The Wondrous World of Wildlife Spies

by Peter Christie; Cat MacInnes, illus.
In Animal Snoops, Peter Christie offers a colourfully illustrated account of sneaky animal behaviour, with loads of examples of wild animals eavesdropping, deceiving, and, yes,...

Year of the Golden Dragon

by B.L. Sauder
A long time ago, the mystical and powerful Black Dragon presented the Chinese emperor with the gift of an ancient ball of jade. Two thousand...

Scars

by Cheryl Rainfield
Scars, by the Toronto-based Cheryl Rainfield, is a teenage tale with a very dark underbelly. It follows high-schooler Kendra as she works through therapy to...

Northward to the Moon

by Polly Horvath
Polly Horvath is the MacGyver of the middle-grade novel, consistently crafting high-functioning tales out of the most random combinations of events, circumstances, and objects. In...

The Gnome’s Eye

by Anna Kerz

Growing Up Ivy

by Peggy Dymond Leavey

No Moon

by Irene N. Watts
Three young women make their difficult ways through three historical periods in a trio of new middle-grade novels. Though the settings and situations vary, all...

Shapeshifter

by Holly Bennett
With books like Theo Caldwell’s Finn the Half-Great and Holly Bennett’s The Warrior’s Daughter, it seems we are in the midst of a Celtic mythology...

C’mere, Boy!

by Sharon Jennings; Ashley Spires, illus.
It’s a harsh world for a dog without a boy, as Dog comes to realize. Although Dog has been living a quiet life at home...

Elliot’s Fire Truck

by Andrea Beck
Elliot Moose is a firefighter today, hurtling around the house on his bright red fire truck. All he needs is a fire to fight and...

Magpie’s Missing Spoon

by Michael Bradley
Everyone knows that magpies like to collect bright objects, and the titular magpie in the first picture book from Renfrew, Ontario’s Michael Bradley (who is...

Paris in the Spring with Picasso

by Joan Yolleck; Marjorie Priceman, illus.
“There is no place more beautiful than Paris,” thinks Guillaume Apollinaire as he strolls along the city streets of Joan Yolleck and Marjorie Priceman’s bubbly...