Young Adult: The Magpie’s Return by Curtis Smith
Kayla perceives her world in vectors and variables, in quantities given and determined. She’s a prodigy. A genius. Yet there are equations she can’t solve. […]
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Young Adult: Summer of the Shark by DiVitto Kelly
On June 20, 1975, the summer blockbuster was born. The movie was Jaws based on Peter Benchley’s 1974 novel of the same name. Forty-five years […]
New Today: Fight Like A Girl by Sheena Kamal
Out today in Canada and the UK is bestselling and award-winning author Sheena Kamal’s YA debut, Fight Like A Girl. Young Trisha lives in Toronto […]
Children’s Books: American Royals by Katharine McGee
To my mind, when it was published four months ago, American Royals (Random House) probably generated less interest than it is right now. After all, […]
Young Adult: Antisocial by Jillian Blake
It is the stuff of modern nightmares. An entire school’s innermost secrets exposed on social media. One can not imagine a thriller more targeted on […]
Children’s Books: The Last of the Spirits by Chris Priestley
You remember that scene in Dickens’ A Christmas Carol where Scrooge asks about two children, a boy and a girl, huddling under the robes of […]
Young Adult Fiction: The Caller by Juliet Marillier
Summer Gathering, when the rebels of Shadowfell are planning to challenge the evil King Keldec, is approaching rapidly. Caller Neryn, with whom we have made […]
Young Adult Fiction: Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
Cath Avery has just started university, living on campus. Her twin sister, Wren, has decided that after a lifetime of doing everything together, they will […]
Best Books of 2013: Children’s Books
This is the Books for Children and Young Adults segment of January Magazine’s Best Books of 2013 feature. You can see our picks for the […]
Teenagers at the End of the World: Young Readers Dance with Dystopia
Why are young readers so enthralled with fiction focused beyond the end of the world? Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games series. Veronica Roth’s Divergent books. David […]
