Fifteen-year-old Gemma thinks her life on a small East Coast island with her father, Jonah, is not an exciting one. Her mother ran off when she was an infant, and Jonah, an amateur scientist, spends m
Seventeen-year-old Del has managed his Asperger's well. He has solid friends in his special-needs class at school, and he even manages to get by among people who don't understand his brand of communic
When a team in an all-girls' hockey league during World War I comes to town looking for a new star player, twelve-year-old Lou thinks his dreams are coming true. But the dreams hinge on one thing: nev
The central metaphor of The Unfinished Dollhouse tells the story: on Frankie's fourth birthday, her parents Michelle and Rob purchased a dollhouse kit. Michelle imagined the time she and her daughter
Naomi doesn't expect anything unusual from her annual family trip to visit her grandparents in Ireland. What she finds is a country hit by an unexpected virus that rapidly infects the majority of the
It’s taken four hundred years of travel, but the starship Venture has finally arrived at its destination, Beta Earth, an uninhabited, untouched planet. The first night seventeen-year-old engineer Ursa
As far as Miranda1 knows, there is one world: Oculum. Its dome, its walls and its garden are all there is. That's what the residents have been taught since birth. But William1 shows her something: a d
Between her overprotective, alcoholic hoarder of a mother and being bullied at school, tenth-grader Aggie has had enough. She plans to expose the bullies for what they are and recruits fellow misfits
Enid has never fit in with kids her age. They don't speak the way she does, and they don't hand in assignments so perfect that the teachers think she cheated. They're not like Enid at all. And they al
Deep Girls tells stories that defy the conventions of YA, sweeping aside the clichés of life, love and family, giving us stories of girls whose lives mirror the world that young readers see around the
At the heart of Luminous Ink are questions around the work of words. What can the literature being written today tell us about Canada's social arrangements; about its political and aesthetic shapes an
