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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

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….

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….

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

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 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….

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….

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 Book of Us

By (author): Shane Peacock

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Ghost Boys

By (author): Shenaaz Nanji

Finalist for the Saskatchewan Young Readers’ Choice Awards, Snow Willow, 2018Named to Best Books for Kids & Teens, Sprin….

Laws of Emotion

By (author): Alison Lohans

Lohans has had a number of successful publications for young adults, and all of her titles have been selected for the pr….

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….

Magdaragat

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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 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….

Lightfinder

By (author): Aaron Paquette

Lightfinder is a YA fantasy novel about Aisling, a young Cree woman who sets out into the wilderness with her Kokum (gra….
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