The Melancholy of Summer by Louisa Onomé

The title is a haunted look at the nature of grief and belonging as a lonely girl named Winifred who loves to wander a cemetery meets Phil, a teen girl ghost. (Tundra Books, CBC)įuneral Songs for Dying Girls is a tale about a girl who befriends a ghost. Funeral Songs for Dying Girls by Cherie Dimalineįuneral Songs for Dying Girls is a book by Cherie Dimaline. His other work includes How to Invent Everything and How to Take Over the World.Įrica Henderson is an artist best known for her work on comic books such as Marvel's The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl and Archie's Jughead. He has also written two 'choose-your-own-path' books, To Be Or Not To Be and Romeo and/or Juliet, parodying Shakespeare's famous tragedies. North's work on the comics Adventure Time, Jughead and The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, have received three Eisner Awards. He rose to popularity with the webcomic Dinosaur Comics, featuring a neurotic, wordy T-Rex.

Ryan North is a writer and comics creator from Toronto. Ryan North explains why stories are really 'empathy machines' The story involves magic, technology and a transformed Earth that needs protection.ĭanger and Other Unknown Risks is for ages 12 and up.

In the YA novel Danger and Other Unknown Risks, a girl named Marguerite and her dog Daisy are thrust into a position where they have to save the world. (Connie Tsang, Penguin Workshop, /EricaFails) Queen Among the Dead by Lesley Livingstonĭanger and Other Unknown Risks is a book by Ryan North, left, and illustrated by Erica Henderson. In addition to his two YA novels, he also wrote the memoir The Reason You Walk, about mending the relationship with his father before his death, and Go Show the World, a children's picture book about Indigenous heroes throughout history. Kinew is the leader of the New Democratic Party in Manitoba and bestselling author. Wab Kinew's YA novel The Everlasting Road tackles grief by way of the supernatural The Everlasting Road is for ages 14 and up. The only difference is, this time, Bugz may have met her match in the form of a new villain in the Floraverse.

In The Everlasting Road, main character Bugz, an Indigenous teen with an online alter ego, continues to navigate the real-life stresses of growing up on the Rez and virtual battles of life in the Floraverse, an online multiplayer video-game universe. In the follow-up to the YA fantasy novel Walking in Two Worlds, Wab Kinew picks up where he left off. The Everlasting Road is a book by Wab Kinew.

The Melancholy of Summer by Louisa Onomé