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Writer’s Block: Nathan Hellner-Mestelman

All of our featured Writer’s Block writers are special, but Nathan Hellner-Mestelman may also have the distinction of being the youngest writer we’ve ever featured! We interview teenager Nathan about his writing habits, asking the world’s big questions, and his non-fiction book for young adults, Cosmic Wonder (Linda Leith Publishing).

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Refresh Your Shelf: New Kids & YA

Black History Month Series: Kids and YA.

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Black History Month Series: Kids & YA

The cover of The Stones of Burren Bay by Emily de Angelis. The cover illustration depicts a house at the top of a rugged, stony cliffside, the rain coming in diagonal slashes.

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First Fiction Friday: The Stones of Burren Bay

Perfectly Gift-able Picture Books

Âmî Osâwâpikones (Dear Dandelion)

By (author): SJ Okemow

A debut picture book that celebrates self-love, care, and resilience with one of the most widespread plants—the dandel….

Salma Makes a Home

A 2023 NYPL Best Book for Kids!Charming, creative Salma takes on big feelings with even bigger ideas as she navigates li….

Sangeet and the Missing Beat

By (author): Kiranjot Kaur

Sangeet loves music, and she’s good at composing it, too. Her favourite instrument is the tabla. One day, Sangeet hears….

Pirate Glitterbeard

By (author): Oksanna Crawley

Alone In his cabin, Pirate Glitterbeard sprinkled pink glitter onto his beard and put on his finest pink skirt! All aboa….

Sam Francisco, King of the Disco

By (author): Sarah Tagholm

Illustrated by: Binny Talib

Winner of the Moonbeam Children’s Book Award!A fabulously fun rhyming picture book about what the David Bowie and Quee….
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YA Picks

The Mitochondrial Curiosities of Marcels 1 to 19

By (author): Jocelyn Brown

Her hands lay inert and upturned on her lap – probably stunned, she thinks, by the hideousness of the skirt underneath….

The Call of the Rift: Crest

By (author): Jae Waller

Step through the portal into a world ravaged by chaotic spirits and corrupted magic in the third book of The Call of the….

Tainted Amber

By (author): Gabriele Goldstone

It’s 1937, and Katya-working as a servant girl on a Trakehner horse estate in East Prussia-dreams of being a writer. One….

The Lake and the Library

By (author): S. M. Beiko

Wishing for something out of Alice in Wonderland, something beyond her adventureless life, 16-year-old Ash is counting d….

Oculum

By (author): Philippa Dowding

Array….

Playing With Matches

By (author): Suri Rosen

When 16-year-old Raina Resnick is expelled from her Manhattan private school, she’s sent to live with her strict aunt ….

Silencing Rebecca

By (author): Nikki Vogel

In this genre-bending debut YA novel combining elements of horror, magic realism, and realistic fiction, Rebecca Waldman….

Stepping into Traffic

By (author): K.J. Rankin

Burger Blast is all fries, vinegar, windows, and chrome, with a long counter and a few tables. I order before rememberin….

Taking a Chance on Love

By (author): Mary Razzell

Falling in love creates an enchanted time, and when it’s on the magical Sunshine Coast of British Columbia during the Se….

Things That Go Bump: Plays for Young Audiences

By (author): Elyne Quan, Jared Matsunaga-Turnbull, Mark Haroun, Clem Martini, Emil Sher, Chris Craddock, Jan Derbyshire

Edited by: Kit Brennan

from foreword by Kit Brennan Things that Go Bump, Volume 2 : Plays for Young Audiences is a collection of recent Canadi….

Amphibian

By (author): Carla Gunn

Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book (Canada and Caribbean region) A Globe and Mail Top F….

My Indian

By (author): Mi’sel Joe, Sheila O’Neill

***2022 ATLANTIC BOOK AWARDS: APMA BEST ATLANTIC-PUBLISHED BOOK AWARD – SHORTLIST*** ***2022 BMO WINTERSET AWARD – L….
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