Babies & Toddlers | Picture Books | Early Readers
Middle Readers | Young Adults | Fantasy

With this selection of staff favourites from authors new and old, you’re sure to find something for every literary lover.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules Jeff Kinney

The sequel to Diary of a Wimpy Kid is out and it’s just as good as the first book! Part graphic novel, part journal this book will have readers laughing out loud in moments. Whatever you do, don’t ask Greg Heffley how he spent his summer vacation, because he definitely doesn’t want to talk about it. Unfortunately for Greg, his older brother, Rodrick, knows all about the incident Greg wants to keep under wraps. Secrets have a way of getting out…especially when a diary is involved.

A Perfect Gentle Knight (CANADIAN!) By Kit Pearson

Bestselling author Kit Pearson brings us the story of the six Bell children, each of them coping in separate ways with their mother’s death, and their father’s increasing depression. The Knights of the Round Table role-playing game the kids have always played together is becoming a problem as eldest brother Sebastian continues to need the fantasy more than anyone else. 11-year-old Corrie is stuck in the middle and is trying to bring her family together, even as it seems to be falling apart.

Airman By Eoin Colfer

Eoin Colfer is back, this time telling us the tale of Conor Broekhart, a boy growing up in the 1890’s who is born to fly. His idyllic life is spent studying the science of flight, until he is wrongly accused of being a traitor and thrown in prison. The only way to escape Saltee Prison is to fly and Conor begins sketching flying machines. The months turn into years, but the day comes when Conor must find the courage to trust his revolutionary designs and take to the skies.

What the Dickens by Gregory Maguire

From the master of the fairy-tale who brought us Wicked, and The Ugly Step-Sister, comes a new children’s book about tooth fairies. On the darkest night, amidst a terrifying storm, Dinah’s parents go missing. While Dinah and her siblings worry, their cousin Gage tells them an unlikely story about tooth fairies, known as skibbereen. According to Gage, the skibbereen put all those teeth they take to good use and as the storm unfolds, Dinah begins to believe the stories might be true.

Allie Finkle’s Rules for Girls By Meg Cabot

I like rules
What I’m not so crazy about is everything else.

Cabot demonstrates that she is can get inside a 9-year-old girl’s head with total ease. Allie’s family is moving and she’s not happy about it. With a new room she’s half-scared to go into, the burden of being “the new girl,” and her old friends all a half-hour car ride away, how will Allie ever learn to fit in?