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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

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….

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….

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….

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….

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….

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….

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….
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YA Picks

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….

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….

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….

Made 4 You

By (author): Eric Walters

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The Book of Us

By (author): Shane Peacock

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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 ….

The Beggar King

?o you know anything about a brass door near the old library archives??Jordan asked. Sarmillion? golden eyes narrowed an….

The Many Revenges of Kip Flynn

By (author): Sean Dixon

It all started with a black rose and a rich young man. And a house with a creek running through it. And then there she w….

The Boy Who Saw the Colour of Air

By (author): Abdo Wazen

Translated by: Nouha Homad

Growing up in a small Lebanese village, Bassim’s blindness limits his engagement with the materials taught in his school….

Silencing Rebecca

By (author): Nikki Vogel

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

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….

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 ….

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….

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….

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….

Made 4 You

By (author): Eric Walters

….

The Book of Us

By (author): Shane Peacock

….

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 ….

The Beggar King

?o you know anything about a brass door near the old library archives??Jordan asked. Sarmillion? golden eyes narrowed an….

The Many Revenges of Kip Flynn

By (author): Sean Dixon

It all started with a black rose and a rich young man. And a house with a creek running through it. And then there she w….

The Boy Who Saw the Colour of Air

By (author): Abdo Wazen

Translated by: Nouha Homad

Growing up in a small Lebanese village, Bassim’s blindness limits his engagement with the materials taught in his school….

Silencing Rebecca

By (author): Nikki Vogel

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

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….

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 ….
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