Dandelion By Jamie Chai Yun Liew (Grades 10+)

A mix of a story about motherhood and migration, Dandelion follows Lily as she navigates being a new mother by trying to find out what happened to her own mother, who abandoned her family when she was a young girl from small town British Columbia in the 1980's.

Jamie Chai Yun Liew hosts the Migration Conversations podcast and has also written a non-fiction book, Ghost Citizens. Dandelion won the Jim Wong-Chu Emerging Writer Award in 2022. It appeared on the long list of Canada Reads in 2023 and again in the finals in 2025.