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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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Cozy Fest: Leanne Shirtliffe + The Genius Hour Project

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

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….

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….

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….

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….

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….

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….

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….

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….

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….
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YA Picks

Tough Case

By (author): David S. Craig

Sixteen-year-old Dane and his mom have relocated to Nova Scotia hoping to flee an abusive relationship with Dane’s fat….

Remote

By (author): Colin Mackay

Something sinister is going on in the catacombs of Duram University. A student is about to find himself part of a new te….

The Girl of Newgate Prison

By (author): David Starr

A young reader novel about Libby, who is thrown into Newgate Prison in the early years of the 19th century and is senten….

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….

Magdaragat

Array….

Time of Treason

By (author): Susan M. MacDonald

Picking up where Edge of Time left off, Time of Treason continues the story of Riley and Alec, otherwise normal teens wh….

The Medusa Deep

By (author): David Neil Lee

Nate Silva has enough to deal with at home, with a house full of unwanted relatives and the scars from his last encounte….

Monoceros

By (author): Suzette Mayr

Winner of the W.O. Mitchell Book PrizeWinner of the 2012 Relit Award for Best NovelLonglisted for the Scotiabank Giller ….

Scion of the Fox

By (author): S. M. Beiko

As the winter ice begins to thaw, the fury of a demon builds — all because one girl couldn’t stay dead . . .Roan Har….

Sophie, in Shadow

By (author): Eileen Kernaghan

It’s 1914. Sixteen year old Sophie Pritchard, orphaned two years earlier by the sinking of the SS Titanic, is about to b….

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….

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….

Tough Case

By (author): David S. Craig

Sixteen-year-old Dane and his mom have relocated to Nova Scotia hoping to flee an abusive relationship with Dane’s fat….

Remote

By (author): Colin Mackay

Something sinister is going on in the catacombs of Duram University. A student is about to find himself part of a new te….

The Girl of Newgate Prison

By (author): David Starr

A young reader novel about Libby, who is thrown into Newgate Prison in the early years of the 19th century and is senten….

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….

Magdaragat

Array….

Time of Treason

By (author): Susan M. MacDonald

Picking up where Edge of Time left off, Time of Treason continues the story of Riley and Alec, otherwise normal teens wh….

The Medusa Deep

By (author): David Neil Lee

Nate Silva has enough to deal with at home, with a house full of unwanted relatives and the scars from his last encounte….

Monoceros

By (author): Suzette Mayr

Winner of the W.O. Mitchell Book PrizeWinner of the 2012 Relit Award for Best NovelLonglisted for the Scotiabank Giller ….

Scion of the Fox

By (author): S. M. Beiko

As the winter ice begins to thaw, the fury of a demon builds — all because one girl couldn’t stay dead . . .Roan Har….

Sophie, in Shadow

By (author): Eileen Kernaghan

It’s 1914. Sixteen year old Sophie Pritchard, orphaned two years earlier by the sinking of the SS Titanic, is about to b….

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….

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….
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