● A celebration of Canadian voices, featuring 19 brand new stories for teens from authors across Canada.
● Themes of identity, transformation, and belonging, expressed through multiple genres.
● Ideal for educators, librarians, and readers aged 12+ seeking meaningful, diverse, and contemporary YA fiction.

Edited by Beverley Brenna.

Now available at your favourite bookseller.

Table of Contents:

The Undertakers – Dennis Allen
State of Being – Simone Garneau
How to Be No One – Beth Goobie
Design – Sylvia Gunnery
Sad Cat – Madeleine Hart
Mental – Charise Jewell
A Spare Room – Alice Kuipers
Reading the Field – Patricia McCowan
The Plowman – Lynn McGonigle Clarke
Right Defense – Jean Mills
The Bellstead Kittens – Ann Margaret Oberst
Comfortable Morsels – Patricia Robertson
Iron Icarus Rising – Ziggy Schutz
The Lodestone – Brian Slattery
She Is – Kelly Stewart
Ancestration – Michael F. Stewart
Here Me Is – Colin Thornton
Saving Prometheus – Maureen Ulrich
Accidental Athlete – Carleigh Wu

Published November 2025 by Sutherland House Books.

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