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Hot Summer Reads: YA Picks

Our final #aluhotsummer picks are for the young at heart: check out our roundup of five books that will make your inner teen yeet.

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Helen is a fine hand with a slingshot, and more than at home in the woods. After all, she was raised by bears. When she stumbles upon three evil giants, she hatches the perfect plan to rid the land of them. Well, almost perfect… Bulleybummus, the fiercest giant, catches her and insists she help kidnap the princess …

Jellybean Mouse

By: Philip Roy (CA)

Jellybean Mouse is the second tale in the exciting new picture book series, “Happy the Pocket Mouse.” When a “boring” trip to the laundromat to wash their clothes frustrates Happy’s insatiable appetite for adventure (and neither the skating rink nor the bowling alley can entice John away from their mundane task), Happy…

Once Upon an Iceberg

By: Sheilah Lukins (CA)

***2022 BRUNEAU FAMILY CHILDREN’S/YOUNG ADULT AWARD, NL BOOK AWARDS – FINALIST*** When the dog’s away, the mice go on an adventure! Errol is off on another adventure! With his new-found friend Gus, Errol travels to Twillingate to help search for Gus’s father. In the course of his search, he finds treasures on …

Witching Hours, The

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The Witching Hours is an anthology of comics about magic- al women written, illustrated and edited by women and non-binary persons. It explores the range of what a witch can be and celebrates powerful and magical women. The book features 11 stories ranging from fantasy to horror to slice of life; including a history of…

Osvald

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A story of a child and a stuffed toy monkey, among her many treasured possessions, who goes missing……..the rest is history!…

Coming to Canada

By: Starkie Mak (CA)

With sensitivity and tenderness, Starkie Mak has captured a tale of the immigrant experience, from the eyes of a child. Masterfully rendered with careful homage paid the children’s books that have touched the hearts of so many, Mak’s brush strokes and calligraphy evoke the turbulent emotions and difficulties a child mu…

The Street Belongs to Us

By: Karleen Pendleton Jimenez (CA)

A sweet middle-grade chapter book about two best friends who transform their torn-up street into a world where imaginations can run wild. In 1984 Los Angeles, Alex is a tomboy who would rather wear her hair short and her older brother’s hand-me-downs, and Wolf is a troubled kid who’s been wearing the same soldier’s un…

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YA Picks

The Limitless Sky

By: Christina Kilbourne (CA)

Rook and Gage live worlds apart ? but somehow they must find a way to help one another survive.Trapped in a life she didn?t choose, Rook struggles to find meaning in her appointed role as an apprentice Keeper of ArHK. Even though her mam soothes her with legends of the Outside and her da assures her there are many inte…

What the Dog Knows

By: Sylvia McNicoll (CA)

Naomi?s dog Diesel returns from the afterlife with one mission ? can he save her?It?s Naomi?s worst summer ever. Her dog, Diesel, died. Dad lost his job. Mom and Dad split up. The family is broke, and Naomi is stuck babysitting when she planned to take swimming lessons. Then Naomi?s sometime-friend Morgan convinces her…

Monoceros

By: Suzette Mayr (CA)

Winner of the W.O. Mitchell Book PrizeWinner of the 2012 Relit Award for Best NovelLonglisted for the Scotiabank Giller PrizeShortlisted for the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT FictionShortlisted for the Alberta Literary Award for Best FictionA Globe and Mail Best Novel of 2011A seventeen-year-old boy, bullied and heartbr…

Things That Go Bump

By: Elyne Quan (CA), Jared Matsunaga-Turnbull (CA), Mark Haroun (CA)

from foreword by Kit Brennan Things that Go Bump, Volume 2 : Plays for Young Audiences is a collection of recent Canadian plays for elementary school age audiences; it is a companion volume to Things that Go Bump, Volume 1: Plays for Young Adults. These six plays are road and audience-tested, seasoned by professional…

For the Love of Mary

By: Christopher Meades (CA)

A hilarious coming-of-age novel about the pain of young love, family secrets, and sick ferretsFifteen-year-old Jacob feels almost on the inside: almost smart, almost funny, almost good-looking, almost worthy of falling in love. His sister is too busy dating guys in Whitesnake jackets to notice, and his best friend is o…

The Girl of Newgate Prison

By: David Starr (CA)

A young reader novel about Libby, who is thrown into Newgate Prison in the early years of the 19th century and is sentenced to hang. In this young reader novel set at the beginning of the 19th century, Libby is placed in chains and transported to London’s notorious Newgate Prison after which, in a show trial, she is fo…

My Indian

By: Mi’sel Joe (CA), Sheila O’Neill

***2022 ATLANTIC BOOK AWARDS: APMA BEST ATLANTIC-PUBLISHED BOOK AWARD – SHORTLIST*** ***2022 BMO WINTERSET AWARD – LONGLIST*** ***2022-2023 HACKMATACK AWARD: ENGLISH FICTION – SHORTLIST*** ***2022 IPPY AWARDS: MULTICULTURAL FICTION: JUV/YA – SILVER*** In 1822, William Epps Cormack sought the expertise of a …

Made 4 You

By: Eric Walters (CA)

Becky James lives in a small town where nothing ever changes. But there’s something very different about the new student, Gene Newman. Brilliant, talented, and socially awkward, Gene is like nobody else Becky has ever known. Little does she know just how different he actually is. Gene confides in Becky that he has a …

Remote

By: Colin Mackay (CA)

Something sinister is going on in the catacombs of Duram University. A student is about to find himself part of a new technological leap into a future in which morals are tested against humanity’s growing desire for power — to regenerate, to control the aging process, and to kill — an all-out underground war with bot…

The Medusa Deep

By: David Neil Lee (CA)

Nate Silva has enough to deal with at home, with a house full of unwanted relatives and the scars from his last encounters with the Resurrection Church of the Ancient Gods keeping him up at night, so there is no way he is looking west, no matter who warns him. But before he knows it, Nate finds himself press-ganged int…

Ghost Lake

By: Nathan Adler (CA)

In Ojibwe cosmology there are thirteen moons, and in these pages are thirteen offerings from Ghost Lake, an interrelated cast of characters and their brushes with the mysterious. Issa lives in fear of having her secret discovered, Aanzheyaawin haunts the roads seeking vengeance, Zaude searches for clues to her brother’…

Mountain Runaways

By: Pam Withers (CA)

Will their wilderness skills be enough to survive the dangerous Rocky Mountains?First a Canadian Rockies avalanche kills their parents. Then Children?s Services threatens to separate them. That?s when the three Gunnarsson kids decide to run away into the mountains and fend for themselves until the oldest turns eighteen…

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