![A Debut MG Fantasy from a SFF Darling, or, Read This If You Love Middlegame [MG Review]](https://i0.wp.com/fallingletters.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/over-the-woodward-wall.jpg?fit=801%2C1279&ssl=1&resize=245%2C150)
Avery is an exceptional child. Everything he does is precise, from the way he washes his face in the morning, to the way he completes his homework – without complaint, without fuss, without prompt. Zib is also an exceptional child, because all children are, in their own way. But where everything Avery does and is can be measured, nothing Zib does can possibly be predicted, except for the fact that […]
![The Harm of Silence, Rumours, and Assumptions [MG Review]](https://i0.wp.com/fallingletters.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/thats-what-friends-do.jpg?fit=424%2C640&ssl=1&resize=245%2C150)
Samantha Goldstein and David Fisher have been friends ever since they met on their town’s Little League baseball team. But when a new kid named Luke starts hanging out with them, what was a comfortable pair becomes an awkward trio. Luke’s comments make Sammie feel uncomfortable—but all David sees is how easily Luke flirts with Sammie, and so David decides to finally make a move on the friend he’s always […]
![The Barren Grounds: A Much Anticipated #ownvoices Portal Fantasy [MG Review]](https://i0.wp.com/fallingletters.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/the-barren-grounds.jpg?fit=1000%2C1514&ssl=1&resize=245%2C150)
Morgan and Eli, two Indigenous children forced away from their families and communities, are brought together in a foster home in Winnipeg, Manitoba. They each feel disconnected, from their culture and each other, and struggle to fit in at school and at their new home — until they find a secret place, walled off in an unfinished attic bedroom. A portal opens to another reality, Askî, bringing them onto frozen, […]
![Alternate Reality Meets Supernatural Mystery in this #ownvoices Debut [YA Review]](https://i0.wp.com/fallingletters.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/elatsoe.jpg?fit=318%2C472&ssl=1&resize=245%2C150)
I received a free copy from the publisher via Edelweiss+. Imagine an America very similar to our own. It’s got homework, best friends, and pistachio ice cream. There are some differences. This America has been shaped dramatically by the magic, monsters, knowledge, and legends of its peoples, those Indigenous and those not. Some of these forces are charmingly everyday, like the ability to make an orb of light appear or […]
![Fighting Words from a 10 Year Old Who Speaks Up about Sexual Assault [MGLit Review]](https://i0.wp.com/fallingletters.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/fighting-words.jpg?fit=1688%2C2550&ssl=1&resize=245%2C150)
Ten-tear-old Della has always had her older sister, Suki: When their mom went to prison, Della had Suki. When their mom’s boyfriend took them in, Della had Suki. When that same boyfriend did something so awful they had to run fast, Della had Suki. Suki is Della’s own wolf — her protector. But who has been protecting Suki? Della might get told off for swearing at school, but she has […]