The YA novel Daughter of the Burning City by American author Amanda Foody, brings to life all the joys and wonders of summer carnivals and reminds readers why they make for such fascinating tales. Set in a travelling carnival called Gomorrah Festival, sixteen-year-old Sorina is the sole illusion worker to exist in hundreds of years. …
Sadie by Canadian author Courtney Summers is a gutsy and terrifying young-adult thriller guaranteed to keep readers tethered to the story from start to finish. Summers offers a fresh style of prose + podcast, showing two sides of the same story that will leave readers breathless for more. The story Sadie is narrated by two …
Continuing with MuskokaStyle’s Summer Reads, Safe Harbour is a young adult novel by Muskoka writer Christina Kilbourne. It’s fiction that leads you down a path of false safety, a path on which easy solutions become a lot more complicated. The novel begins with Harbour, a 14-year-old girl who finds herself living in a tent in …