The Outside Circle: A Graphic Novel by Patti LaBoucane-Benson; art by Kelly Mellings. Publisher: House of Anansi Press Publication date: spring 2015 Why you need to read this graphic novel: […]
The wizards had done this many times. It had become routine to them, watching boys die. (p. 352) When an academic superstar tells you not once, but twice in one […]
Black Apple by Joan Crate Published by Simon & Schuster Source: publisher This is what the publisher says (I received an ARC, so the back copy on my book might […]
What am I more afraid of? Prinny drowning on the reef? Or Tate and Mel? (p. 16) Sigrid Sugden is a Shrike. She, Tate, and Mel blackmail their schoolmates, […]
It’s no secret that I’m a huge admirer of Avatar: the Last Airbender, tv show and comics both, so pardon me while I fangirl a little, and bear with my semi-academic […]
Sooooo I should have written this post last month but life interfered. The real problem, though, was finding words enough for Wanting Mor by Rukhsana Khan. “If you can’t be beautiful […]
Long before I was an author I was a fan of books about Winnie the Pooh, Babar, Madeline, Anne Shirley and anything by Judy Blume. Throughout high school my favourite […]
I’d better start with a confession, Nafiza: the first time I read Chime, I didn’t like it. I mean, I got why you did: the atmosphere of the setting; the little […]
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation,
Volume I: The Pox Party
by M.T. Anderson
If you take a gander at  the tags for this post, you might be pardoned for feeling a little confused: how can Good Night, Mr. Tom be Historical Fiction and Nonfiction? To […]
The Book Wars 