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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

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….

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….

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….

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

Blue Knight, The

By (author): Raymond McGregor

“The Blue Knight” reveals problems in our society related to racism and bullying, which is an important topic that is cu….

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….

The Book of Us

By (author): Shane Peacock

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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….

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….

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 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….

For the Love of Mary

By (author): Christopher Meades

A hilarious coming-of-age novel about the pain of young love, family secrets, and sick ferretsFifteen-year-old Jacob fee….

The Rule of Thirds

By (author): Chantel Guertin

A fresh voice in YA fiction brings a charming heroine to life in this series debutSixteen-year-old Pippa Greene never go….

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….

The Fish Eyes Trilogy

By (author): Anita Majumdar

Illustrated by: Maria Nguyen

Three coming-of-age solo shows that follow the lives of teenage girls who attend the same high school and process their ….

Lemon

By (author): Cordelia Strube

Lemon has three mothers: a biological one she’s never met, her adopted father’s suicidal ex, and Drew, a school principa….
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