Welcome To Our Kids' Section!
At Munro's we have a dedicated team of children's book experts happy to help you select the perfect book for your special someone.
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In the subsection links above, we have highlighted some of our recent and all-time favourites for a variety of ages. If you are looking for more ideas, please check out:
What's New & Hot for February!
Katherine Applegate
Rarely does all our Kids' Section staff unanimously agree, but we are confident that this will be one of 2012's best. Gorgeous, tragic and based on a true story, this is the tale of Ivan, a Silverback Gorilla who makes it his mission to rescue a baby elephant from the same fate that has befallen him: a tourist attraction at The Big Top Mall. Ages 8+.
Andrew Weaver
Dr. Andrew Weaver, one of the world's leading experts in global warming (and a professor at our very own University of Victoria), provides a clear and accessible guide to global warming along with some positive solutions. Ages 10+.
Hergé
With a brand new Steven Spielberg blockbuster garnering rave reviews, new interest in the original
Tintin comics has been sparked! Ages 8+.
Marissa Meyer
Book #1 in the Lunar Chronicles, Cinder is a futuristic re-telling of Cinderella as a cyborg mechanic. Need we say more? Ages 12+.
Laini Taylor
This dark and compellingly mysterious love story about a blue-haired girl who speaks many languages (including several that aren't human) is one of our early picks of the year. Ages 12+
John Green
Beloved author John Green (Looking For Alaska)
tackles love and cancer in this bold new novel. Ages 12+
If You Loved The Hunger Games...
Marie Lu
Created by a video game designer, based on the facebook game by the same name and with movie rights sold months before the book even hit the shelves is Legend: the newest and heaviest hitter in the fight for next great Dystopia. Ages 12+.
Veronica Roth
Tris was born among The Selfless but chooses to join The Brave, and as part of her brutal initiation she must learn to embrace danger and control her fears. The biggest risk she takes by far, however, is the secret she keeps--one that could have her killed or worse... This is the best alternative we've found to The Hunger Games! Ages 14+.
Book #2 : Insurgent out May 2012!
Anna Sheehan
In this futuristic retelling of Sleeping Beauty, Rosalinda Fitzroy awakes after sixty-two years in a chemically induced coma to find that everyone she ever knew is dead, and that she is the soul heir to her parent's intergalactic empire. Culture shock is hard enough without someone trying to assassinate you. Ages 12+.
Paolo Bacigalupi
Set in a gritty future, a good scavenge can make one’s fortune. Nailer works the light crew and strips old ships of their copper wiring just to make quota. When he finds a beached clipper and its wealthy passenger, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity turns into a deadly hunt. Ages 13+
Ally Condie
At the age of 16, everyone must participate in the glamourous ball that is the “Matching Ceremony”. But what happens when the computer screen that is supposed to show you your perfect future mate… shows you two? Ages 14+
Dennis Foon
Roan lives in a small isolated community in the post-apocalyptic wilderness. When the terrifying "dirt eaters" come and destroy his entire society and take his sister, he is forced to give up the peaceful way he has been raised and join a sect of warriors in order to survive and hopefully someday rescue his sister. Part fantasy and part sci-fi dystopian thriller, this is an absolute must-read for Hunger Games fans! Ages 12+
James Dashner
Thomas awakes in an elevator with no memories beyond his first name. When the doors open, he finds himself in a stone maze called The Glade. He is also surrounded by other boys who arrived the same way, one by one, every thirty days. However, the next day The Glade's first girl is delivered, and she arrives with a surprising message. Ages 12+
Lois Lowry
Jonah lives in a world without fear, pain or war. However, as he begins his apprenticeship to The Giver, he also begins to slowly realize what it is to experience the other side - love, joy and choice. Like any good dystopia, this classic must-read Newbery Award winner will make you look twice at our world and how we experience it. Ages 10+.
Margaret Haddix
In the future it is forbidden to have more than two children, and the Population Police are there to ensure everyone follows this law. Luke is a third child and has been forced to spend his life in hiding. He is alone in the world - until he sees another child's face in a window where two known children already live. This is the gripping first book in the bestselling Shadow Children series. Ages 10+.
Jeanne Duprau
The underground city of Ember was designed as a last refuge for the human race. Two hundred years later, the storerooms are starting to run out of food and the great lamps that light the city have begun to flicker. It’s up to two teens, Lina and Doon, to decipher a fragment of an ancient message and to find a way out of Ember. Ages 9+.