Summer Reading, Here We Come!
Our annual Teen Summer Reading Challenge starts online Monday, June 15!
Category: Blog
Looking forward to 2020
New year, new books, movies, and more! Here are a few titles our Youth Advisory Council teens and staff are looking forward to checking out in 2020. BOOKS Demon is a thrilling, horrifying, and disturbing conclusion to Shane Peacock’s Gothic YA trilogy, The Dark Missions of Edgar Brim....
Favourites of 2019 – Part 3
Here’s more 2019 goodness, brought to you by the teens of the Winnipeg Public Library Youth Advisory Councils and staff. BOOKS Children of Blood and Bone may have been published in 2018, but if you read it in 2019, you know this novel is stunning: author Tomi Adeyemi...
Favourites of 2019 – Part 2
In this post, we’re continuing on with Part 2 of our favourite books, movies, and music, as voted on by teens from the Winnipeg Public Library Youth Advisory Councils, and staff. BOOKS The Grace Year by Kim Liggett Sixteen-year-old Tierney James dreams of a better life—a society that doesn’t...
Favourites of 2019 – Part 1
Another year is winding down, so what better time to share some of our favourites from 2019? Here’s Part One of a list of great books, movies and music, brought to you by your friendly neighbourhood Winnipeg Public Library Youth Advisory Councils and staff. BOOKS You owe me...
Indian Horse Book Review
The novel Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese takes place in Manitoba during the time of residential schools. These school’s main job was to take Indigenous children from their homes and “erase the Indian from the child”. Priests and nuns ran the school, and were trying to erase the children’s’...
Why Morgan Rhodes is an Amazing Author
By Sydney C. The author of The Falling Kingdoms Series, Morgan Rhodes, is an excellent writer for many reasons. Firstly, the way she writes the characters in this series is amazing. First of all, she is very smart about how she can add the feelings and the thoughts...
The Case for Reading
By Ranjan I know what you are thinking- Ughh, another article about reading. I get it, reading is important or something. Yes, I am not the first, nor will I be the last, to encourage reading, but I think that a perspective from a fellow teenager can be...
Best YA Fiction of 2017 According to a Most Reputable Source: Me
So here we are. Almost the end of December. It’s cold outside (probably, I got started writing this post back in October and it’s pretty darn chilly already). The year is wrapping up, the shortest day of the year has arrived and the snow is here to stay...
Looking for a page turning read? Try a mystery!
Are you looking for a real page turner? A book that really makes you think, that you just can’t put down? If that’s the case then the Mystery genre would be perfect for you. Mysteries are excellent for when you want to test your wits, and see if you...
