Thirteen-year-old Stewart Inkster is academically brilliant but "ungifted" socially. Fourteen-year-old Ashley Anderson is the undisputed "It" girl of grade nine, but her marks stink. Their worlds are about to collide when Stewart and...
Canadian fiction
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Author:Nielsen-Fernlund, SusinSummary: - Author:Dobson, KitSummary:
Playful, witty, and sharp, We are Already Ghosts is a summer book, a family story, a meditation of the persistence of place, and a chronicle of a time only just passed into memory. The Briscoe-MacDougall family retire to their lakeside...
- Author:Baldwin, Shauna SinghSummary:
A Quill & Quire Book of the Year. Ten years after her stunning debut, Shauna Singh Baldwin returns to Goose Lane with an outstanding new collection of ten stories. Migrating from Central America to the American South, from Metro...
- Author:Howlett, DebbieSummary:
These twelve linked stories confirm what we’ve suspsected all along: eventually we all outsmart our parents. In this brilliant debut collection by Debbie Howlett we return to the turbulent 70s revisiting the bittersweet wonder years...
- Author:Johnston, SeanSummary:
In an inviting and challenging series of fictions, this book will leave readers puzzling while they smile at the acrobatics of his words and techniques. Some of the stories border on "flash fiction" where incidents rather than...
- Author:Boivin, LisaSummary:
From Dene artist and bioethicist Lisa Boivin comes this healing story of hope, dreams, and the special bond between grandfather and granddaughter. When a little girl dreams about a bear, her grandfather explains how we connect with the...
- Author:Van Schaik, KasiaSummary:
Kasia Van Schaik's debut story collection follows the journey of Charlotte Ferrier, a child of divorce raised by a single mother in a small town in British Columbia after moving from South Africa. Mother and daughter wait out the end of...
- Author:Hasan, Erum ShaziaSummary:
A propulsive debut that grapples with timely questions about what it means to be charitable, who deserves what, and who gets the power to decide It's the middle of the night in Los Angeles when Maya, a married mother of one, receives...
- Author:Lama, Tsering YangzomSummary:
2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize Longlist - 2022 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize - Longlist 2022 Toronto Book Awards Longlist - For readers of Homegoing and The Boat People , a compelling and profound debut novel about a Tibetan family...
- Author:Wang, JackSummary:
Set on five continents and spanning decades, We Two Alone traces the arc and evolution of the Chinese immigrant experience. A young laundry boy risks his life, pretending to be a girl to play organized hockey in Canada in the 1920s. A...
- Author:Ohlin, AlixSummary:
Thirteen glittering, surprising, and darkly funny stories of people testing the boundaries of their lives, from two-time Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Alix Ohlin. In the mordantly funny 'Money, Geography, Youth,' Vanessa arrives home...
- Author:Lesage, MarlaSummary:
During the COVID-19 pandemic, many children have been introduced to wearing face masks and seeing others in masks. Author and illustrator Marla Lesage normalizes mask-wearing by introducing young readers to artists, ranchers, pilots,...
- Author:Hynes, Joel ThomasSummary:
Scrappy tough guy and three-time loser Johnny Keough seizes an unexpected "clean slate" opportunity as a sign from above and embarks on an epic hitchhiking journey across Canada to deliver his girlfriend's ashes to a fabled beach on the...
- Author:Jones, AmySummary:
Winner of Northern Lit Award. Finalist for the Leacock Medal for Humour. Quill & Quire "Books of the Year 2016." Globe & Mail "Best Canadian Fiction of 2016."
A woman goes over a waterfall, a video goes viral, a family...
- Author:Wall, AimeeSummary:
A remarkable debut about intergenerational female relationships and resistance found in the unlikeliest of places, We, Jane explores the precarity of rural existence and the essential nature of abortion. Searching for meaning in her...
- Author:Reddy, PratapSummary:
The stories in this collection centre around new immigrants -- spirited people prepared to leave their home and hearth to travel to distant lands in pursuit of dreams of a better life. But often times there's a reality check, and they...
- Author:Scrimger, RichardSummary:
In this middle-grade novel, Bunny ends up caught in a reenactment of the War of 1812 while searching for a stolen cell phone.
- Author:Spencer, Kim.Summary:
"Readers will be left with a rich image of Mia's world and the family and people that surround her as well as a strong sense of how culture and class impact people's experiences. A touching exploration of identity and culture."-Kirkus...
- Author:Dowding, PhilippaSummary:
They’re troubling. They’re bizarre. And they JUST might be true. They’re Weird Stories Gone Wrong. Here are two spectacularly spooky stories from acclaimed children’s author Philippa Dowding that will have you wondering about tall tales...
- Author:Dowding, PhilippaSummary:
They’re troubling. They’re bizarre. And they JUST might be true. They’re Weird Stories Gone Wrong. Here are three spectacularly spooky books from acclaimed children’s author Philippa Dowding that will have you wondering about tall tales...
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