by megan@bcyukonbookprizes.com | Apr 9, 2025
Crash Landing Li Charmaine AnnePublisher: Annick Press Book Description This YA debut is a searing ode to queer identity, growing up in an immigrant community, and carving a place for yourself in the world with the help of your friends. Jay Wong is spending the last...
by megan@bcyukonbookprizes.com | Apr 9, 2025
Song of Freedom, Song of Dreams Shari GreenPublisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing Book Description From award-winning verse novelist Shari Green comes an unforgettable story of friendship, first love, and an impossible choice between integrity and duty, family and...
by megan@bcyukonbookprizes.com | Apr 9, 2025
Picture a Girl Jenny ManzerPublisher: Orca Book Publishers Book Description Addie’s mom is good at two things (three, if you count making French toast): surfing and telling stories. Addie and her brother, Billy, live with their mom in a shabby rental cabin in...
by megan@bcyukonbookprizes.com | Apr 9, 2025
Elvis, Me, and the Postcard Winter Leslie GentilePublisher: DCB Young Readers, an imprint of Cormorant Books Book Description The first book in the series, Elvis, Me, and the Lemonade Stand Summer, won the City of Victoria Children’s Book Prize and the Jean Little...
by megan@bcyukonbookprizes.com | Apr 9, 2025
Skater Boy Anthony NeradaPublisher: Soho Teen Book Description In this YA pop punk debut about queer romance and destroying labels, a teen risks everything to write his own story. Perfect for fans of Sonora Reyes and Adib Khorram. Stonebridge High’s resident bad boy,...
