A permanent blackout shuts down a northern Anishinaabe community and the rest of the planet, but what does an apocalypse look like to people who’ve already experienced the end of the world—and survived?
Bookcase Bizarro: MG/YA Book Reviews, September 2025 Read More »
This month at Bookcase Bizarro, I round up 6 of my favourite reads of 2024.
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This month, we finesse our motel-running operations while trying to keep ahead of a an anti-immigration bill and a racist teacher. We also enter into the very dark world of fairy tales, where we try to outrun an unwanted past with a supernatural serial killer nipping at our heels.
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This month, we escape the hot city for the seaside, mistakenly summon a demon to our small town who makes the local bully look like a saint, learn how to to navigate the ups and downs of middle school friendships, and persuade a grumpy witch to (maybe) take us in as her apprentice.
Bookcase Bizarro: Children’s Book Reviews, May 2023 Read More »
This month, we find out how much we learn in the first years of life, conquer our fear of diving, worry about whether our first crush will be reciprocated or not, defend our right to love our own hair, attend a global and diverse magical boarding school and fight alongside two foster kids for a place in a loving home on Cape Cod Island.
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