Young Adult Nonfiction
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Holy Cream Puff
by Nicolas Ardanaz
Holy Cream Puff recounts the incomparable encounters of a young boy who revels in the joie de vivre of Maisonneuve, an East End of Montreal francophone community in the 1940s and 1950s. Charged with an abundance of humorous and mischievous ploys...
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Pathetica
A 1980's Memoir by Dale R Schuss
Dale was a shy Canadian teenager failing at school; Ryan was an American teenager pretending to be doing much better. Their unlikely "friendship" that started in the mid-1980's went on for five years of adventure along the west coast until it was...
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Plan to the Future
Simple Advice for Young People by Michael Anthony Attard
Simple advice for young people What does it mean to be accountable? Why is discipline important? Where is your education leading? When will life become meaningful? How can you be successful and happy at the same time? Answers to these questions...
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Growing Up Is Hard To Do
Reflections on your earliest beginnings to your late teenage years by Jay Spence
Growing Up is Hard to Do, yet there are very few comprehensive “how to” manuals for young people, to help them negotiate and understand what momentous changes occur on the winding road between infancy and adulthood. In this helpful, highly...
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The Average José
An Immigration Story by Ken Flynn
Canada is a nation built by immigrants, and this is the story of one such man. In the 1950s, José Pires bid farewell to his wife of five days, leaving the island of São Miguel in the Azores and coming to Canada in hopes of building a life for his...
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Friday Memories
The Life and Times of June Friday MacInnis by June Friday MacInnis
Born in 1931, at a time of ongoing change for Indigenous people all over the continent, this Ojibway Elder from Bear Island, in northeastern Ontario, started writing her memories so that her grandchildren and their descendants would know about...
