Believe it or not, there are still some people out there who think that young adult (YA) literature is written by people who aren’t smart enough to write for adults.
By B. A. Markus
Young Readers
Highlights of the season's books for young people
By Andrea Belcham
Fifteen-year-old Ariane has been bounced between different foster families and schools ever since her mother ...
By Andrea Belcham
Carefree George the moose is munching his lakeside lunch when disaster strikes: a forest fire rages across the ...
By Andrea Belcham
In Merola’s nocturnal tale, Pickles McPhee is a blue-striped, rural monster who hitches a ride to the big city in ...
By Andrea Belcham
In a kitchen drawer where each utensil has a clear purpose, Spork - the offspring of a spoonish mum and a forkish ...
By Andrea Belcham
Dubuc's cyclical picture book uses bright and deceptively simplistic coloured-pencil drawings to relay a personal ...
By Andrea Belcham
Curtain Up! takes its audience behind the scenes of a professional dramatic production by tracing a young ...
By Andrea Belcham
In her entrancing first novel, Somewhere in Blue, Gillian Cummings addresses the topic of teen suicide with ...
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Preteens with a fondness for Indiana Jones will be entertained and educated by Andreas Oertel's The ...
By Andrea Belcham
Another book about an unusual summer vacation is Mark Abley's Camp Fossil Eyes. Jill and her younger ...
By Andrea Belcham
Although it assumes the format of a children's picture book, Jocelyn Pinet's Human Nature seems best suited ...
By Andrea Belcham