Toronto Star crime reporter Jennifer Pagliaro’s GIRLS, INTERRUPTED, a true crime narrative examining the recent rash of teen violence, specifically focusing on the alleged swarming attack of Ken Lee, who was experiencing homelessness, at the hands of eight teenage girls, taking readers from the night of the murder to the girls’ arrest and eventual trial, and interrogating how we reconcile a brutal murder with a broken youth justice system…
Read MoreViral spoken word poet Sabrina Benaim’s CHAOTIC GOOD, an audio exclusive collection of poems and stories about staying true to yourself despite external forces, and a celebration of modern ritual and worship in the search for something to believe in, from a meditation on her daily skincare routine to the medicine of music and a devotion to Beyoncé, to Bhavna Chauhan at Doubleday Canada…
Read MoreLife skills coach, blogger and Indigenous rights defender originally from Pays Plat First Nation and currently residing on Treaty 6 Territory on Poundmaker Cree Nation, Andrea Landry’s picture book, REZ LIFE IS THE BEST LIFE, which follows the life of a young Nehiyaw girl living on the reserve on the prairies as she experiences the beauty of Indigenous land-based living surrounded by her kinship network…
Read MoreAuthor of Amnesty International Book Club’s 2020 Reader’s Choice Pick, SEVEN, Farzana Doctor’s THE BEAUTY OF US, a campus-based YA that tackles the complexities of consent, racism, power-dynamics, social anxiety, and the struggles with sexuality faced by a feisty group of teens – all girls of colour – while they solve a mystery at their boarding school in the 1980’s, to Pia Singhal at ECW…
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