I began writing Shooting the Bitch last year on an especially long train ride from Oakville to Ottawa. It was...

I was gripping my mother’s hand when we arrived at the door to the kindergarten. My baby sister held on...

Every September, in the rain, we posed for a photo in front of our house. My mom loved it. We...

Groundwood Books’ Girls With Grit novels share real girls’ voices, and their stories, from North America and around the world....

Of all my first days of school, the one in sixth grade is probably the one I remember most vividly....

To get to kindergarten, I had to walk across a bridge that spanned the Grand River in Paris, Ontario. The...