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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....
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...
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...
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...
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’...
I was lying on my bed one summer morning in the year of 2015, when I heard our landline ring. My eyes were closed and I had no plans of waking up. My sister rushed into my room, and I remember how irritated I was, because I didn’t want to...
By Ranjan S., Looking for a very interesting novel to read for summer? Look no further, I have the perfect book for you. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde is a fairly simple read, considering it was published in the late eighteen hundreds. Without giving the...
by Sophie H., No matter how old you are, or how old the story is, The Odyssey is a timeless classic that tells stories in a way that is accessible to everyone. The events that Homer details in his epic work have been retold through picture books, films, graphic...
Each year our Youth Advisory Council members put forward their picks for I Love to Read Month. This year, we have a great list of picks to recommend!
This summer the classic novel The Giver by Lois Lowry came to the big screen. The movie rendition attracted some high profile actors such as Jeff Bridges as The Giver and Meryl Streep as Chief Elder. The movie was directed by Philip Noyce and the screenplay...
