Bestselling author Laurie Halse Anderson is known for the unflinching way she writes about, and advocates for, survivors of sexual assault. Now, inspired by her fans and enraged by how little in our culture has changed since her groundbreaking novel Speak was first published twenty years ago, she has written the poetry memoir Shout.
Speak was first published in 1999 and its graphic novel version was published in early 2018. Speak: The Graphic Novel was a 2019 TRCA nominee.
Jeff Zentner, author of The Serpent King (a 2018 TRCA title) and Goodbye Days (a 2019 TRCA title) has released a new novel. Rayne & Delilah’s Midnite Matinee is a contemporary novel about two best friends who must make tough decisions about their futures and the TV show they host in their senior year of high school.
Angie Thomas talks with Waterstones, a British book retailer, about On The Come Up, her new novel, set within the same neighbourhood as her smash hit The Hate U Give. The Hate U Give was the 2018 TRCA winner.
In this, the third novel in the Sea of Ink and Gold Trilogy, Sefia is determined to keep Archer out of the Guard’s clutches and their plans for war between the Five Kingdoms. The Guard has already stolen her mother, her father, and her Aunt Nin. Sefia would sooner die than let them take anymore from her–especially the boy she loves. But escaping the Guard and the Book’s prophecy is no easy task. After all, what is written always comes to pass. As Sefia and Archer watch Kelanna start to crumble to the Guard’s will, they will have to choose between their love and joining a war that just might tear them apart
As many of you will remember, The Reader, the first trilogy installment, was a TRCA 2018 Nominee.
From the author of When Dimple Met Rishi, a TRCA 2018 nominee, comes a charming romantic comedy about an aspiring teen filmmaker who finds her voice and falls in love.
Aspiring filmmaker and wallflower Twinkle has stories she wants to tell and universes she wants to explore, so when nerdy classmate and fellow film-obsessive Sahil Roy approaches her to direct a film for the upcoming Summer Festival, Twinkle agrees. Suddenly Twinkle begins receiving anonymous romantic emails and finds herself torn between her longtime crush and her film-buff new friend.
Will Twinkle get the chance to showcase her artistic voice? Do dreams come true? Pick up a copy of From Twinkle, with Love today and discover Twinkle’s story.
Vera Brosgol, author of the 2013 TRCA graphic novel Anya’s Ghost, has published a beautiful new memoir. A New York Times Book Review Notable Children’s Book of 2018,
A Boston Globe Best Children’s Book of 2018, and selected as the Best Graphic Novel of 2018 by Parents Magazine, Be Prepared tells the story of a Russian girl living in the suburbs. Feeling isolated, Vera hopes that Russian summer camp will provide her with a place where she can finally fit in, but camp is far from what she imagined.
“Over the 2017 Christmas break I created four very different poster designs to see which direction other committee members felt like going after our previous vendor produced similar designs several years in a row. After a specific design was selected there was several weeks of sending various editions of that design back and forth between TRCA committee members to fine tune the design; making sure the books are a central focus and making sure all the relevant information was appropriately displayed. As a committee we decided that the snappy header of ‘4 Months: 10 Books: 1 Winner‘ was a concise choice for advertising the essence of the TRCA program. With the help of Emily Fahey, Coordinator of Literacy at the CCRSB head office in Truro, we received colour prints of our posters, bookmarks and voting slips, and we were able to customize the number of copies of each item so that we didn’t have to pay for more material than necessary.
Images were sourced from Google using the ‘labeled for noncommercial reuse with modification’ filter. I used open source free fonts and did the majority of the design in GIMP, an open source image editing software similar to Photoshop, though the fonts had to be loaded into PowerPoint first and turned into images before they could be used in GIMP. I had a lot of fun working on this project and, as I am in the process of teaching myself how to use GIMP, was able to significantly improve my capability with this software! Now that I’ve finished work on the promotional material I am excited to have the time to sit down and read the TRCA books, all of which seem fabulous :)”
Did you know that Malala Yousafzai has become an honorary Canadian citizen? Malala is the author of the 2014 TRCA wining book I am Malala. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau presented Malala with a certificate documenting her as an honorary Canadian, only the sixth person to receive the honour and the youngest ever. Click here to view Malala’s speech to the Canadian Parliament after receiving honorary Canadian citizenship.
Teen Reader's Choice Award 