Mortified

MortifiedSHORTLISTED FOR THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S AWARD FOR YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE SHORTLISTED FOR THE FOREST OF READING SILVER BIRCH AWARD Brilliant, funny, unputdownable. Alice Kuipers, award winning childrens author For fans of Remarkably Ruby and Diary of a Wimpy Kid, comedy and cringe come together in this sweet novel about facing your fears. Its nothing short of a catastrophe when someone secretly signs up Belinda Houle, the schools shyest kid, to

When she joins a memoir-writing course at the library

a fourteen-year-old boy grows increasingly alienated from this hockey-obsessed community and is determined to take revenge on the people he holds responsible for his beloved sister’s death

He’s the cowboy who wants her anyway

and now passes seamlessly as white

No matter your goals

Or at least that was true until my brother moved his best friend onto our shared property

exquisite new novel by the bestselling and award-winning author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists—the story of four women and their loves

The last one is silly and obviously metaphorical

from icons in Bulgarian churches to the California coast and loved Canadian rivers

But just as Ophelia’s fears threaten to overwhelm her

it is: in a bitter twist of irony

you’ll find profound insight into the relationship between the mind and the body