I Read Canadian Day, on February 17, 2021, celebrates Canadian authors and the richness, diversity, and breadth of Canadian literature. This list highlights some Canadian authors who published Young Adult fiction this past year.
Tanaz Bhathena is a YA novelist based in Mississauga, Ont. She is also the author of The Beauty of the Moment and A Girl Like That. Hunted by the Sky is a...Show more
Tanaz Bhathena is a YA novelist based in Mississauga, Ont. She is also the author of The Beauty of the Moment and A Girl Like That. Hunted by the Sky is a YA adventure novel set in medieval India. Gul, a young girl, has a birthmark on her arm that makes her a mark. Her parents were murdered because Gul is marked. A group of female rebel warriors take Gul in and train her to become one of them. Gul has one thing on her mind: revenge. Also available as an eBook.
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Tanaz Bhathena is a YA novelist based in Mississauga, Ont. She is also the author of The Beauty of the Moment and A Girl Like That. Hunted by the Sky is a...Show more
Tanaz Bhathena is a YA novelist based in Mississauga, Ont. She is also the author of The Beauty of the Moment and A Girl Like That. Hunted by the Sky is a YA adventure novel set in medieval India. Gul, a young girl, has a birthmark on her arm that makes her a mark. Her parents were murdered because Gul is marked. A group of female rebel warriors take Gul in and train her to become one of them. Gul has one thing on her mind: revenge. Also available as an eBook.
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Deborah Ellis, who was born in Cochrane, Ont., writes about persecuted children in the Third World. She is best known for her award-winning book The Bread...Show more
Deborah Ellis, who was born in Cochrane, Ont., writes about persecuted children in the Third World. She is best known for her award-winning book The Breadwinner Trilogy. The Greats, her latest book, is set in Georgetown, Guyana. Despite just winning a national high-school geography competition, Jomon is still angry and desperate with his lot in life, as he's from a poor family. When events lead Jomon to be sentenced to a youth detention facility, elements of magical realism occur as the spectre of long-lost family and a giant rodent appear to help him deal with suicidal thoughts.
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Deborah Ellis, who was born in Cochrane, Ont., writes about persecuted children in the Third World. She is best known for her award-winning book The Bread...Show more
Deborah Ellis, who was born in Cochrane, Ont., writes about persecuted children in the Third World. She is best known for her award-winning book The Breadwinner Trilogy. The Greats, her latest book, is set in Georgetown, Guyana. Despite just winning a national high-school geography competition, Jomon is still angry and desperate with his lot in life, as he's from a poor family. When events lead Jomon to be sentenced to a youth detention facility, elements of magical realism occur as the spectre of long-lost family and a giant rodent appear to help him deal with suicidal thoughts.
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The writer of this graphic novel, Serapio Ittusardjuat is hails from Nunavut. He is a residential school survivor, a certified journeyman mechanic. and co...Show more
The writer of this graphic novel, Serapio Ittusardjuat is hails from Nunavut. He is a residential school survivor, a certified journeyman mechanic. and comes from a long line of walrus hunters. The illustrator, Matthew K. Hoddy is from Australia and currently living in Toronto. This illustrated story tells the first-person account of four nights spent on open sea ice in the harsh Arctic climate, with few supplies and no water, and how Serapio used traditional skills to survive when his snowmobile broke down.
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The writer of this graphic novel, Serapio Ittusardjuat is hails from Nunavut. He is a residential school survivor, a certified journeyman mechanic. and co...Show more
The writer of this graphic novel, Serapio Ittusardjuat is hails from Nunavut. He is a residential school survivor, a certified journeyman mechanic. and comes from a long line of walrus hunters. The illustrator, Matthew K. Hoddy is from Australia and currently living in Toronto. This illustrated story tells the first-person account of four nights spent on open sea ice in the harsh Arctic climate, with few supplies and no water, and how Serapio used traditional skills to survive when his snowmobile broke down.
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Sheena Kamal is a Vancouver-based thriller writer. In Fight Like a Girl, Trisha grew up with an abusive father who would come and go as he pleased. In an...Show more
Sheena Kamal is a Vancouver-based thriller writer. In Fight Like a Girl, Trisha grew up with an abusive father who would come and go as he pleased. In an effort to break the chain of violence in her family, Trisha chooses to channel her violent impulses into Muay Thai kickboxing, , an unlikely sport for a slightly built girl of Trinidadian descent.
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Sheena Kamal is a Vancouver-based thriller writer. In Fight Like a Girl, Trisha grew up with an abusive father who would come and go as he pleased. In an...Show more
Sheena Kamal is a Vancouver-based thriller writer. In Fight Like a Girl, Trisha grew up with an abusive father who would come and go as he pleased. In an effort to break the chain of violence in her family, Trisha chooses to channel her violent impulses into Muay Thai kickboxing, , an unlikely sport for a slightly built girl of Trinidadian descent.
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Dani Jansen is a Montreal-based writer and drama teacher. Her first-ever book, The Year Shakespeare Ruined My Life, tells the story of Alison Green who w...Show more
Dani Jansen is a Montreal-based writer and drama teacher. Her first-ever book, The Year Shakespeare Ruined My Life, tells the story of Alison Green who wants to be the valedictorian of her high school. To accomplish this, she decides to manage the school's play, A Midsummer Night's Dream. Alison soon finds herself in over her head and a series of events befall the production. This light-hearted romance has LGBT themes.
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Dani Jansen is a Montreal-based writer and drama teacher. Her first-ever book, The Year Shakespeare Ruined My Life, tells the story of Alison Green who w...Show more
Dani Jansen is a Montreal-based writer and drama teacher. Her first-ever book, The Year Shakespeare Ruined My Life, tells the story of Alison Green who wants to be the valedictorian of her high school. To accomplish this, she decides to manage the school's play, A Midsummer Night's Dream. Alison soon finds herself in over her head and a series of events befall the production. This light-hearted romance has LGBT themes.
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Adan Jerreat-Poole, is a fantasy, feminist author, living in Kingston, Ont. The Girl of Hawthorn and Glass, the first in this series, depicts a fantasy w...Show more
Adan Jerreat-Poole, is a fantasy, feminist author, living in Kingston, Ont. The Girl of Hawthorn and Glass, the first in this series, depicts a fantasy world of witches and the assassins who hunt down ghosts in the human world. A group of renegades are in an ongoing battle to capture the Heart of the Coven. Eli is a teenage girl and trained assassin taught to kill with her seven living blades. Eli starts to question all she was taught about her world and the human world, when an assignment goes awry. Also available as an eBook.
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Adan Jerreat-Poole, is a fantasy, feminist author, living in Kingston, Ont. The Girl of Hawthorn and Glass, the first in this series, depicts a fantasy w...Show more
Adan Jerreat-Poole, is a fantasy, feminist author, living in Kingston, Ont. The Girl of Hawthorn and Glass, the first in this series, depicts a fantasy world of witches and the assassins who hunt down ghosts in the human world. A group of renegades are in an ongoing battle to capture the Heart of the Coven. Eli is a teenage girl and trained assassin taught to kill with her seven living blades. Eli starts to question all she was taught about her world and the human world, when an assignment goes awry. Also available as an eBook.
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Kevin Lambert is a Quebec author. His debut novel, You Will Love What You Have Killed, was written in French and recently translated into English by Donal...Show more
Kevin Lambert is a Quebec author. His debut novel, You Will Love What You Have Killed, was written in French and recently translated into English by Donald Winkler. This story is about ghostly teenagers who return from the dead to take revenge on the elders in the small, tight-knit community of Chicoutimi, Que.
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Kevin Lambert is a Quebec author. His debut novel, You Will Love What You Have Killed, was written in French and recently translated into English by Donal...Show more
Kevin Lambert is a Quebec author. His debut novel, You Will Love What You Have Killed, was written in French and recently translated into English by Donald Winkler. This story is about ghostly teenagers who return from the dead to take revenge on the elders in the small, tight-knit community of Chicoutimi, Que.
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Caryn Lix, from Southern Alberta, writes sci-fi for teens. In Salvation, the final book in the Sanctuary trilogy, protagonist Kenzie and her friends fear ...Show more
Caryn Lix, from Southern Alberta, writes sci-fi for teens. In Salvation, the final book in the Sanctuary trilogy, protagonist Kenzie and her friends fear their luck may have run out when they are trapped on a strange new planet. After encountering alien attacks and bounty hunters, Kenzie must use her newly-acquired superpowers to solve a dark mystery and save Earth from destruction.
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Caryn Lix, from Southern Alberta, writes sci-fi for teens. In Salvation, the final book in the Sanctuary trilogy, protagonist Kenzie and her friends fear ...Show more
Caryn Lix, from Southern Alberta, writes sci-fi for teens. In Salvation, the final book in the Sanctuary trilogy, protagonist Kenzie and her friends fear their luck may have run out when they are trapped on a strange new planet. After encountering alien attacks and bounty hunters, Kenzie must use her newly-acquired superpowers to solve a dark mystery and save Earth from destruction.
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Janice Lynn Mather, is a vegan Bahamian writer, living in Vancouver, B.C. Facing the Sun is her second book. It's a coming-of-age story set in the Bahamas...Show more
Janice Lynn Mather, is a vegan Bahamian writer, living in Vancouver, B.C. Facing the Sun is her second book. It's a coming-of-age story set in the Bahamas. It's about four young girls — Eve, Faith, KeeKee and Nia — and the choices they are forced to make one fateful summer. When a hotel developer makes a move to buy the community's beloved beach, all four teens are faced with life decisions that might change them forever. Also available as an eBook.
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Janice Lynn Mather, is a vegan Bahamian writer, living in Vancouver, B.C. Facing the Sun is her second book. It's a coming-of-age story set in the Bahamas...Show more
Janice Lynn Mather, is a vegan Bahamian writer, living in Vancouver, B.C. Facing the Sun is her second book. It's a coming-of-age story set in the Bahamas. It's about four young girls — Eve, Faith, KeeKee and Nia — and the choices they are forced to make one fateful summer. When a hotel developer makes a move to buy the community's beloved beach, all four teens are faced with life decisions that might change them forever. Also available as an eBook.
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Kenneth Oppel, best known for his Silverwing trilogy, currently lives in Toronto. Bloom is the first novel in a new adventure trilogy about three teenager...Show more
Kenneth Oppel, best known for his Silverwing trilogy, currently lives in Toronto. Bloom is the first novel in a new adventure trilogy about three teenagers, Anaya, Petra and Seth, who live on Salt Spring Island. After a rainfall, black plants spring up and take over the island, spouting toxic pollen that only Anaya, Petra and Seth are immune to. The trio must work together to figure out how to stop the invasion from taking over the planet.
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Kenneth Oppel, best known for his Silverwing trilogy, currently lives in Toronto. Bloom is the first novel in a new adventure trilogy about three teenager...Show more
Kenneth Oppel, best known for his Silverwing trilogy, currently lives in Toronto. Bloom is the first novel in a new adventure trilogy about three teenagers, Anaya, Petra and Seth, who live on Salt Spring Island. After a rainfall, black plants spring up and take over the island, spouting toxic pollen that only Anaya, Petra and Seth are immune to. The trio must work together to figure out how to stop the invasion from taking over the planet.
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Tom Ryan is an award winning author who lives in Nova Scotia. I Hope You're Listening blends queer romance, podcasts, and amateur sleuthing in a rousing a...Show more
Tom Ryan is an award winning author who lives in Nova Scotia. I Hope You're Listening blends queer romance, podcasts, and amateur sleuthing in a rousing and propulsive thriller. In her small town, seventeen year-old Delia "Dee" Skinner is known as the girl who wasn't taken. Ten years ago, she witnessed the abduction of her best friend, Sibby. And though she told the police everything she remembered, it wasn't enough. Sibby was never seen again. At night, Dee deals with her guilt by becoming someone else: the Seeker, the voice behind the popular true crime podcast Radio Silent, which features missing persons cases and works with online sleuths to solve them.
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Tom Ryan is an award winning author who lives in Nova Scotia. I Hope You're Listening blends queer romance, podcasts, and amateur sleuthing in a rousing a...Show more
Tom Ryan is an award winning author who lives in Nova Scotia. I Hope You're Listening blends queer romance, podcasts, and amateur sleuthing in a rousing and propulsive thriller. In her small town, seventeen year-old Delia "Dee" Skinner is known as the girl who wasn't taken. Ten years ago, she witnessed the abduction of her best friend, Sibby. And though she told the police everything she remembered, it wasn't enough. Sibby was never seen again. At night, Dee deals with her guilt by becoming someone else: the Seeker, the voice behind the popular true crime podcast Radio Silent, which features missing persons cases and works with online sleuths to solve them.
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Author Heather Smith is originally from Newfoundland and now lives in Waterloo, Ont. Her book, Barry Squires, Full Tilt, is set in St. John's, Nfld. in th...Show more
Author Heather Smith is originally from Newfoundland and now lives in Waterloo, Ont. Her book, Barry Squires, Full Tilt, is set in St. John's, Nfld. in the 1990s. It's about a about a 12-year-old boy and his dreams to become a dancer. This book is a humourous, offbeat, quirky read that is full of heart.
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Author Heather Smith is originally from Newfoundland and now lives in Waterloo, Ont. Her book, Barry Squires, Full Tilt, is set in St. John's, Nfld. in th...Show more
Author Heather Smith is originally from Newfoundland and now lives in Waterloo, Ont. Her book, Barry Squires, Full Tilt, is set in St. John's, Nfld. in the 1990s. It's about a about a 12-year-old boy and his dreams to become a dancer. This book is a humourous, offbeat, quirky read that is full of heart.
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