Michael F. Stewart, whom Kirkus Reviews has compared with Roald Dahl, is the award-winning author of 23 books in various genres — typically darkly humorous with a twist of magic. He published his first book in 2008. Recent titles include young-adult (YA) novels Counting Wolves, Heart Sister, Ray vs. the Meaning of Life and The Momentous Expiration of Tremmy Sinclair. Michael grew up the third of three brothers in Mississauga, Ontario, and graduated from McMaster University with a Masters degree in Business. After a short career in venture capital, he pursued his passion for writing. In ..read more

Matt has grown up skipping from town to town alongside his father, hunting anyone whose soul the devil has marked. They have one purpose: Find these people, and exterminate them. But when Matt starts to fall for Rae, to make friends for the first time in his life, he’s not sure who or what to believe anymore. How can someone like Rae, someone who is thoughtful and smart and kind, be an agent of the devil? With the lines of reality and fantasy, myth and paranoia blurred, Matt confronts an awful truth: What if the devil’s mark doesn’t exist?   This page-turner is a delightful thriller-roman ..read more

After being magically gifted with incredible luck, a boy discovers this gift just may be a curse when it comes to love. Jude just wants to draw comics, work at his parents’ vinyl record store and escape high school as unscathed as possible. That is, until the night he finds himself inexplicably gifted with a bout of supernatural good luck. Suddenly, his art is being published. He helps his friend’s song become a finalist in a songwriting competition. And he wins a pair of coveted concert tickets he can use to ask out the popular girl he’s been crushing on. But how long can Jude’s good fortune ..read more

A poignant love story about two teens whose souls come together time and again through the ages. Evan Taft has plans. Take a gap year in Alaska, make sure his little brother and single mother are taken care of, and continue therapy to process his father’s departure. But after his mom’s unexpected diagnosis, as Evan’s plans begin to fade, he hears something: a song no one else can hear, the voice of a mysterious singer. Shosh Bell has dreams. A high school theater legend, she’s headed to performing arts college. But when a drunk driver takes her sister’s life, all that remains is a void—and a s ..read more

Your ancestors have called us to help you.” “I think y’all have the wrong number.” Damon Quinn just wants to get through his senior year unscathed. His mom struggles with alcohol and is barely coping with the day-to-day. Marcus and his cronies at school are forever causing Damon trouble. The new girl, Journey, won’t mind her own business. To make matters worse, now a mysterious crow is following him everywhere. After he is seized by a waking dream in the middle of a busy street, Damon is forced to confront his mom with some hard questions: Why haven’t I met my dad? Where did we come from? Who ..read more

From beautiful mermaids and gentle unicorns to fire-breathing dragons and bloodthirsty vampires, mysterious beings and magical beasts appear in stories told all around the world. This book highlights 20 legendary beings.   Twenty types of mythical creatures creep, stalk, hustle, fly or swim through this fun graphic novel. From Bigfoot to dragons, vampires to giants, we are treated to surprising facts, a sense of how their mythologies came into being, and how they live – not just their preferred environment, but what they eat and whether they’re hostile or friendly to human beings. We even ..read more

  The best-selling, award-winning author of 25 books for children and young adults, Phil was born in Hull, England in 1974. As a youngster, he was passionate about sports (football, cricket, tennis, golf), comics, graphic novels and drama. After studying English and drama at Hull University, he worked as a caregiver in a children’s home, then trained as a drama therapist and worked in a community for abused adolescents. Here’s what he has said about then spending five years as a children’s bookseller: “It was the best move of my life. The books under my nose there were quite unlike anythi ..read more

The other night, Trace Brewster, Max’s best friend and star hockey player for the Hawks, scored on his own net and put the team’s chances of qualifying for an upcoming tournament in jeopardy. Since then, Trace has gone silent and is shutting everyone out. But Max thinks there’s more going on with his friend than what happened on the ice. For one thing, there are bruises on Trace’s face that he refuses to explain. Can Max find a way to get Trace to open up and help him in time for the big game?   The only thing that Max takes more seriously than hockey is playing wingman for his friend and ..read more

A chilling new young-adult thriller about four teens whose dark secrets come back to terrorize them. Someone from the past is blackmailing Sam and his friends with their dangerous secrets. Sam isn’t sure who he can trust, who’s watching him – or how far he’s willing to go to bury the past once and for all.   Sam Hall hopes he has left everything in the past about his fall from stardom. He participates in a secret cathartic ritual with a few of his friends where they vocalize their worst secrets in private in a wooden hut in the woods. But their ritual is interrupted by a strange occurrenc ..read more

On the edge of town, a boy named Dawz lives with his sister and their uncle-turned-adoptive-father, Pop. No one in their ramshackle house knows that a monster – who is smaller than a bear cub – lives in Dawz’s bedroom closet. She calls herself Mim. When a series of events forces Mim to leave her closet, she sets out on a quest to unlock the magic of books, but will Dawz be willing to help her? The story of a monster who desperately wants to be seen and the reluctant boy who wishes he weren’t the only one who could, this exploration of found family, fear and mental health, and intergenerational ..read more