The Almost Epic Squad: Mucus Mayhem

Going for mass-market appeal, three new middle-grade series, respectively, stake claim in the gross-out genre, borrow heavily from another international bestselling series, and woo the lucrative Disney princess–loving crowd. Scholastic Canada has brought together veteran ... Read More »

September 17, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Miranda and Maude: The Princess and the Absolutely Not a Princess

By Emma Wunsch; Jessika von Innerebner (ill.)

September 17, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Billy Stuart and the Zintrepids

By Alain M. Bergeron; Sampar (ill.); Sophie B. Watson (trans.)

September 17, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Infinite Blue

By Darren Groth; Simon Groth

Water imagery abounds in Darren and Simon Groth’s Infinite Blue. The two brothers, writing as a team, weave a neighbourhood flood, an important bathtub chat, and a dripping shower into a story that sees water ... Read More »

September 10, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Tree Musketeers

By Norma Charles

Tree Musketeers, a middle-grade novel by accomplished West Coast writer Norma Charles (Runner: Harry Jerome, World’s Fastest Man), is a universal fish-out-of-water story. Jeanie is new at school, having just moved to Van City from ... Read More »

September 7, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Learning to Breathe

By Janice Lynn Mather

In her debut young-adult novel, Janice Lynn Mather introduces readers to Indira May Ferguson – Indy for short – who’s leaving the Bahamian village of Mariner’s Cay to live with her uncle, aunt, and cousin ... Read More »

September 6, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Almost Invisible

By Maureen Garvie

There are plenty of children’s books that explore the fantasy of living in a public space – for example, Corduroy, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, or The Invention of Hugo Cabret. ... Read More »

September 6, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

★ Very Rich

By Polly Horvath

Rupert Brown, the protagonist of Very Rich, is a Tiny Tim–like character who has a Scrooge-like experience. In this inversion of A Christmas Carol, the poor child is the one who receives three surprise visitors. ... Read More »

August 23, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Kens

By Raziel Reid

High school has never been so high – or so fake, gay, and deadly – as it is for the teens of Willows, Wisconsin, in Raziel Reid’s latest YA novel, Kens. This follow-up to his ... Read More »

August 17, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Confessions of a Teenage Leper

By Ashley Little

Issues around self-image and self-identity have always been a key element in adolescent development, on both individual and social levels. Two new YA books examine these questions through the experiences of high-school seniors. These aren’t ... Read More »

August 16, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

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Quill and Quire

The Almost Epic Squad: Mucus Mayhem

Miranda and Maude: The Princess and the Absolutely Not a Princess

Billy Stuart and the Zintrepids

Infinite Blue

Tree Musketeers

Learning to Breathe

Almost Invisible

★ Very Rich

Kens

Confessions of a Teenage Leper

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