Review by Hira Peracha
In this second installment of the Last of the Gifted series, Hyw and Cat continue to manage their magical powers and find companionship in new characters. … More Water Sight by Marie Powell
Review by Hira Peracha
Skin of the Sea by Natasha Bowen is a mystical story inspired by West African mythology. … More Skin of the Sea by Natasha Bowen
Review by Logaine Navascués
Can even ghosts be scared sometimes? Gustavo is such a kid—a ghost kid—who doesn’t seem to fit in to the loud and playful world of his monster classmates. … More Gustavo the Shy Ghost by Flavia Z. Drago
Review by Jocelyne Gregory
Humans might have Banksy, but animals have Anonymouse. In Anonymouse, written by Vikki VanSickle and illustrated by Anna Pirolli, Anonymouse—as the reader learns—is an artist who paints not for the humans, but for the urban wildlife… … More Anonymouse by Vikki VanSickle, Illus. by Anna Pirolli
Review by Hira Peracha
Spirit Sight by Marie Powell is the first of two books in the Last of the Gifted series, interweaving historical fiction and fantasy in a fast-paced, war-riddled take on the Anglo-Welsh war in the thirteenth century. … More Spirit Sight by Marie Powell
Review by Logaine Navascués
When Maya decides to direct a play, all of her friends in the Mile End neighbourhood join in. But as soon as she starts bossing them around, some actors try to find a way out, revealing how easily a driven leader can become a dominant ruler, in spite of having good intentions. … More Maya’s Big Scene by Isabelle Arsenault
Review by Logaine Navascués
Sometimes a picture book comes along that reframes the possibilities of the form itself. Jon Klassen has already demonstrated his ability to play with readers’ expectations with wit and irony in his iconic hat trilogy. In The Rock from the Sky, Klassen again challenges the inseparable nature of word and image intrinsic to the picture book, while also defying conventions of the format with its 96 pages and multi-chapter structure—five consecutive short stories in one volume!— proposing a reading that is both blunt yet mysterious, simple yet multilayered. … More The Rock from the Sky by Jon Klassen
Review by Hira Peracha
When Lucy Crisp, who is halfway through her second gap year between high school and university, receives an acceptance letter to the floral artistry program at Ladywyck Lodge, the last thing she expected to come across was a town of witches and fairies.
… More Lucy Crisp and the Vanishing House by Janet Hill
Review by Rachel Jung
Imagine a small, fragile bead the size of your fist that contains your entire life energy (gi). Now, imagine that one day, its existence only becomes known to you after a messy interaction with a monster ejects it from your body and into the hands of a stranger. … More Wicked Fox by Kat Cho
Review by Logaine Navascués
Max doesn’t feel like a regular 11-year-old boy in his hometown of Santa María. His dad won’t let him join the other kids for fútbol practice in a nearby town—even though making it to the local team is Max’s greatest dream—because he’s worried something might happen to him. That he will also disappear, just as his Mother did when he was still a baby. … More Mañanaland by Pam Muñoz Ryan
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