Jinchalo
10 best books like Jinchalo (Matthew Forsythe): SuperMutant Magic Academy, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy, Meaty, Mercury, Chop Suey Nation: The Legion Cafe and Other Stories from Canada’s Chinese Restaurants, Too Much and Not the Mood, Split Tooth, The Brilliant Deep: Rebuilding the World's Coral Reefs: The Story of Ken Nedimyer and the Coral Restoration Foundation (Environmental Science for Kids, The Environment and You for Kids, Conservation for Kids), The Clouds Above, Hicotea
SuperMutant Magic Academy
| Author | Jillian Tamaki |
| ISBN | 1770461981 |
Unrequited love, underage drinking, and teen angst rule at a high school for mutants and witches.
The New York Times and New Yorker illustrator Jillian Tamaki is best known for co-creating the award-winning young adult graphic novels Skim and This One Summer—moody and atmospheric bestsellers....
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
| Author | Jenny Odell |
| ISBN | 1612197493 |
This thrilling critique of the forces vying for our attention re-defines what we think of as productivity, shows us a new way to connect with our environment and reveals all that we’ve been too distracted to see about our selves and our world.
When the technologies we use every day collapse...
| Author | Samantha Irby |
| ISBN | 0988480425 |
Samantha Irby explodes onto the printed page with her debut collection of brand-new essays about trying to laugh her way through failed relationships, being black, taco feasts, bouts with Crohn's disease, and more. Every essay is crafted with the same scathing wit and poignant candor thousands of...
| Author | Hope Larson |
| ISBN | 1416935851 |
August 31, 5:15 PM, French Hill, Nova Scotia: A girl named Tara is running. She runs through her nice neighborhood and up a road to the burned ruins of what was once a beautiful house--her family's house.
August 31, 1859, French Hill, Nova Scotia: A girl named Josey is picking blackberries with...
Chop Suey Nation: The Legion Cafe and Other Stories from Canada’s Chinese Restaurants
| Author | Ann Hui |
| ISBN | 1771622229 |
In 2016, Globe and Mail reporter Ann Hui drove across Canada to answer two questions: Why is there a Chinese restaurant in every small town? And who are the families who run them? It was only after the story was published that she discovered her own family could have been included — her parents...
Too Much and Not the Mood
| Author | Durga Chew-Bose |
| ISBN | 0374535957 |
An entirely original portrait of a young writer shutting out the din in order to find her own voice
On April 11, 1931, Virginia Woolf ended her entry in A Writer’s Diary with the words “too much and not the mood.” She was describing how tired she was of correcting her own writing, of the “cramming...
From the internationally acclaimed Inuit throat singer who has dazzled and enthralled the world with music it had never heard before, a fierce, tender, heartbreaking story unlike anything you've ever read.
Fact can be as strange as fiction. It can also be as dark, as violent, as rapturous....
| Author | Kate Messner |
| ISBN | 1452133506 |
All it takes is one:
One coral gamete to start a colony
One person to make a difference
One idea to change the world
The ongoing efforts to save and rebuild the world's coral reefs--with hammer and glue, and grafts of newly grown coral--are the living legacy of Ken Nedimyer.
Kate...
| Author | Jordan Crane |
| ISBN | 1560976276 |
A kind of retelling of Jack and the Beanstalk where the beanstalk is a talking cat. Jack skips school to climb a ladder to the clouds, and then gets dumped back in his classroom by a bunch of annoyed birds. I wasn't acquainted with Jordan Crane's work but I got this from the library because 1) Fantagraphics...
| Author | Lorena Alvarez Gomez |
| ISBN | 1910620343 |
I had expected this to be a tale about environmental conservation, specifically wetlands. To some degree, it is, but that degree is small. This is more about the power of imagination and creation, the ability to bring life and passion into your projects, to grow something bigger than you. And also about...
| Author | Kyo Maclear |
| ISBN | 1554989728 |
Somewhere in the universe, there is the perfect tune for you.
It’s almost the end of middle school, and Charlie has to find her perfect song for a music class assignment. The class learns about a different style of music each day, from hip-hop to metal to disco, but it’s hard for Charlie to...
| Author | Kirsten Hall |
| ISBN | 1592702147 |
A gold leaf appears in the forest. As soon as the animals notice it, each wants it more than anything else in the world. But in their struggle for it, the leaf is destroyed. Heartbroken, the animals wonder: Will we ever again see such a leaf?
After getting an MA in early childhood education, Kirsten...
My Conversations with Canadians
| Author | Lee Maracle |
| ISBN | 1771663588 |
On her first book tour at the age of 26, Lee Maracle was asked a question from the audience, one she couldn’t possibly answer at that moment. But she has been thinking about it ever since. As time has passed, she has been asked countless similar questions, all of them too big to answer, but not too large...
| Author | Sheila Heti |
| ISBN | 0399166564 |
Women in Clothes is a book unlike any other. It is essentially a conversation among hundreds of women of all nationalities—famous, anonymous, religious, secular, married, single, young, old—on the subject of clothing, and how the garments we put on every day define and shape our lives.
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| Author | Julie McIsaac |
| ISBN | 1554830680 |
Entry Level is a graceful and thought-provoking sequence of stories with a flair for the comedy of the workplace. Each story is intense in its own way; McIsaac explores the costs of being female, often in the workforce. A group of women telemarketers deal with the escalating absurdity of management's...
