Boys and Girls Screaming
Boys and Girls Screaming tells the story of a young girl trying to deal with family tragedy by forming a support group of traumatized teenagers.
I'm Good and Other Lies
A pandemic lockdown has twelfth-grader Kelsey Kendler stuck at home with her unstable substance-using mom and distant dad.
Urchin
While questioning her gender identity, a young girl is pulled between the dark world of fairylore and the dynamic world of early 20th-century scientific experimentation as she struggles to save her missing mother.
The Degrees of Barley Lick
A young adult novel about two teenage geocachers who help unravel the mysterious disappearance of a young boy.
Under the Iron Bridge
Desperate to escape joining the Hitler Youth, Paul stumbles across the Edelweiss Pirates, a secret German organization of teenage rebels leading a dangerous campaign of sabotage against the Nazis.
Names in a Jar
Forced to flee her home and change her name to disguise her Jewish identity, Anna Krawitz becomes Maria Nowak, a Catholic farm girl, to hide from the Nazis. But when the war ends, how will her sister find her?
Content Advisory: rape, sexual assault
Sugar Falls
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Inspired by true events, this story shares the awe-inspiring resilience of Elder Betty Ross. At a residential school, Betsy is forced to endure abuse and indignity, but her father’s words give her the strength and determination to survive. This edition brings David A. Robertson’s national bestseller to life in full colour.
Road Allowance Era
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Echo travels back to 1885, where her family's plight is apparent. Burnt out of their home, they make their way to Rooster Town, a shanty community on the edge of Winnipeg. In this final volume, Echo is reminded of her people's strength and resilience, forged through the pain of the past, as she faces a triumphant future.
Breakdown
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When Cole becomes mired in terrifying visions, Eva must harness her new powers to investigate Mihko without him. Are Cole’s visions just troubled dreams, or are they leading him to a horrible truth?
From the Roots Up
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In this sequel to Surviving the City, Dez is grieving her grandmother's death, living in a group home, and navigating her identity as a Two-Spirit person. Will Miikwan learn how to be a supportive ally to her best friend? Will Dez be comfortable expressing her full identity? And will her community be able to celebrate her for who she is?
The Year Shakespeare Ruined My Life
Alison, desperate to be high school Valedictorian, agrees to produce her school play and must navigate the drama that ensues including her crush on Charlotte, the star of the play.
90 Days of Different
In this novel for teens, Sophie graduates from high school, her boyfriend breaks up with her because she's boring, and her best friend challenges her to try 90 different things.
I Will See You Again
When the author learns of the death of her brother overseas, she embarks on a journey to bring him home. Through memories and dreams of all they shared together and through her Dene traditions, she finds comfort and strength.
The lyrical art and story leave readers with a universal message of hope and love.
Northwest Resistance
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Echo travels to 1885, a period of turmoil. The bison are gone, settlers from the East arrive daily, and the Métis and First Nations of the Northwest face hunger and uncertainty as their way of life is threatened. The Canadian government has ignored their petitions, but hope rises when Louis Riel returns to help.
The Justice Project
In this mystery for teens, high-school student Matt Barnes, whose life has been upended by a serious injury, lands a summer job defending the wrongly convicted.
Shantallow
A teenage boy meets a girl he has been seeing in his nightmares. As their stormy relationship becomes almost abusive, they find themselves confronting supernatural terrors in a house with an evil history.
Things That Fall
A group of cousins reunites at a family cottage to help one of them deal with his father's death. They soon stumble on the family secret that caused their parents to keep them apart for years.
Ghosts
Cole Harper is dead. Mihko Laboratories has reopened the research facility and works to manufacture and weaponize the illness that previously plagued Wounded Sky. People are missing, and the community has been quarantined. What deal did Eva strike with Choch? Who will defeat Reynold and Mihko? Time is running out.
Just Lucky
After her grandfather dies and her grandmother can no longer take care of her, fifteen-year-old Lucky must navigate the foster care system. Lucky soon learns that foster placements are lonely, some can even be dangerous, and none of them feel like home.
The Stone Rainbow
Seventeen-year-old Jack Pedersen is finding life complicated ever since coming out. Complications go into hyper-drive when a new student arrives at school, and Jack starts experiencing feelings that he’s never allowed himself before.
Amber Fang: Betrayal
In the second novel of this series for teen readers, a vampire librarian learns a secret organization is behind her mother's disappearance.
Amber Fang: Revenge
In the third novel of this series for teen readers, a vampire librarian hunts down a secret organization.
Amber Fang: Hunted
In this novel for teen readers, a librarian who also happens to be a vampire is recruited as an assassin.
Deep Girls
Short stories about girls and young women who, approaching adulthood, see their parents for the complex, flawed and vulnerable people they are.
