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Today’s I Read Canadian spotlight is on @katherine_fleet and her most recent novel, THE SOUND OF DROWNING. February 17th is @IReadCanadian Day! A day to appreciate and discover Canadian authors and illustrators by taking 15 minutes to read a Canadian book to kids (or any person, or pet, or even yourself)! About the book: Meredith Hall has a secret. Every night she takes the ferry to meet Ben, her best friend and first love. Though their relationship must remain a secret, they’ve been given a second chance, and Mer's determined to make it work. She lost Ben once before and discovered the awful reality: she doesn't know how to be happy without him… Until Wyatt washes ashore―a brash new guy with a Texas twang and a personality bigger than his home state. He makes her feel reckless, excited, and alive in ways that cut through her perpetual gloom. The deeper they delve into each other’s pasts, the more Wyatt’s charms become impossible to ignore. But a storm is brewing in the Outer Banks. When it hits, Mer finds her heart tearing in half and her carefully constructed reality slipping back into the surf. As she discovers that even the most deeply buried secrets have a way of surfacing, she’ll have to learn that nothing is forever―especially second chances. #ireadcanadian #canlit #canlitforkids #kidsbookcentre #ccbc #amreading #readya #authorsofig #authorslifestyle #bookish #bookcommunity #bookstagram #booknerd #bookstoread #readthenorth #localauthor #canadianauthor #readlocal #instabook #igreads #bibliophile #yalit #booklover #bookphotography https://www.instagram.com/p/CLZNSAmg6dU/?igshid=rfqv1e1gmcev

Today’s I Read Canadian spotlight is on @heather.t.smith and her most recent novel, CHICKEN GIRL. February 17th is @IReadCanadian Day! A day to appreciate and discover Canadian authors and illustrators by taking 15 minutes to read a Canadian book to kids (or any person, or pet, or even yourself)! About the book: Poppy used to be an optimist. But after a photo of her dressed as Rosie the Riveter is mocked online, she's having trouble seeing the good in the world. As a result, Poppy trades her beloved vintage clothes for a feathered chicken costume and accepts a job as an anonymous sign waver outside a restaurant. There, Poppy meets six-year-old girl Miracle, who helps Poppy see beyond her own pain, opening her eyes to the people around her: Cam, her twin brother, who is adjusting to life as an openly gay teen; Buck, a charming photographer with a cute British accent and a not-so-cute mean-streak; and Lewis a teen caring for an ailing parent, while struggling to reach the final stages of his gender transition. As the summer unfolds, Poppy stops glorifying the past and starts focusing on the present. But just as she comes to terms with the fact that there is good and bad in everyone, she is tested by a deep betrayal. #ireadcanadian #canlit #canlitforkids #kidsbookcentre #ccbc #amreading #readya #authorsofig #authorslifestyle #bookish #bookcommunity #bookstagram #booknerd #bookstoread #readthenorth #localauthor #canadianauthor #readlocal #instabook #igreads #bibliophile #yalit #booklover #bookphotography https://www.instagram.com/p/CLWk5S9Azvf/?igshid=1u0dqxvf90shv

Today’s I Read Canadian spotlight is on @amlabonte and her novel, CALL OF THE SEA. February 17th is @IReadCanadian Day! A day to appreciate and discover Canadian authors and illustrators by taking 15 minutes to read a Canadian book to kids (or any person, or pet, or even yourself)! About the book: Beware the Siren Song After returning to Newfoundland from a month away at art camp, Alex is just starting to settle in when things start to sound all too familiar. For as long as they can remember, Alex and his twin brother Ben have been hearing a sweet but disturbing song in the salty East Coast air — one that only reaches them. When Ben and Alex head out on a fishing expedition, ignoring an ominous warning from their grandfather, it’s not long before things get much worse. The brothers get into a fight on the boat, and Ben disappears suddenly without so much as a ripple. Determined to find him, Alex begins the biggest adventure of his life, armed with only his mysterious musical talent and the help of a mysterious girl named Meg. But Alex’s best hope just might come from the same source as the song he’s been hearing since childhood — a alluring and dangerous girl he meets amid the frothing ocean waves. #ireadcanadian #canlit #canlitforkids #kidsbookcentre #ccbc #amreading #readya #authorsofig #authorslifestyle #bookish #bookcommunity #bookstagram #booknerd #bookstoread #readthenorth #localauthor #canadianauthor #readlocal #instabook #igreads #bibliophile #yalit #booklover #bookphotography https://www.instagram.com/p/CLUGgaAAFcI/?igshid=exnxl9mg0its

Today’s I Read Canadian spotlight is on @daphnegreerr and her most recent novel, FINDING GRACE. February 17th is @IReadCanadian Day! A day to appreciate and discover Canadian authors and illustrators by taking 15 minutes to read a Canadian book to kids (or any person, or pet, or even yourself)! About the book: Abandoned on the steps of a Belgian convent as a baby, thirteen-year-old Grace has grown up among the nuns. But her days as a caretaker and companion for her older sister, Dotty, have come to a sad end with Dotty's death, and now Grace is living among the girls who attend the convent's boarding school—the very same girls who taunted and bullied her sister for having Down syndrome. Grace desperately wants to know who left her at the convent; she wants a family and to not feel alone in the world. When Grace finds a three-decades-old diary from the 1940s in the convent library, her interest in the history of the convent is also piqued. Terrible things happened in the little village of Tildonk, Belgium, when the Nazis arrived, and terrible things happened to the mysterious girl who wrote the diary. Unravelling the mystery of the diary ultimately means unravelling the secrets of Grace's life, which are more complicated than she ever imagined. #ireadcanadian #canlit #canlitforkids #kidsbookcentre #ccbc #amreading #readya #authorsofig #authorslifestyle #bookish #bookcommunity #bookstagram #booknerd #bookstoread #readthenorth #localauthor #canadianauthor #readlocal #instabook #igreads #bibliophile #yalit #booklover #bookphotography https://www.instagram.com/p/CLPAIP4geDv/?igshid=36dwmukb36ix

Today’s I Read Canadian spotlight is on @melaniemosher1 and her novel, GOTH GIRL. February 17th is @IReadCanadian Day! A day to appreciate and discover Canadian authors and illustrators by taking 15 minutes to read a Canadian book to kids (or any person, or pet, or even yourself)! About the book: Fifteen-year-old Victoria Markham enjoys three things: English class, her signature goth look, and art. It’s just that she tends to do the last one late at night, with spray paint, in public places.... It isn't long before she's caught red-handed and forced into community service with a bunch of stereotypes: there's Rachael, the princess; Russell and Peter, a pair of fist-bumping punks; and Zach, the rich jock Vic is crushing on. The motley crew has to work together to produce a public mural. On top of all that, Vic's mother's boyfriend, the only father figure Vic has ever known and the one who taught her to paint, has left them both. Vic’s mother is still reeling, and her relationship with her daughter strained. She doesn’t understand Vic’s insistence on spiking her hair, piercing her nose and lip, and wearing black clothing and heavy makeup. Vic is convinced her mother doesn’t care enough to find out what’s really behind the get-up. Tensions run high as Vic tries to figure out who she is: Victoria Markham, or Goth Girl? Sometimes, she finds, there’s more to people than meets the eye. #ireadcanadian #canlit #canlitforkids #kidsbookcentre #ccbc #amreading #readya #authorsofig #authorslifestyle #bookish #bookcommunity #bookstagram #booknerd #bookstoread #readthenorth #localauthor #canadianauthor #readlocal #instabook #igreads #bibliophile #yalit #booklover #bookphotography https://www.instagram.com/p/CLMcLdhAHL-/?igshid=u4ve3a3hnoui

Today’s I Read Canadian spotlight is on @mrkbrly and his novel, HIT THE GROUND RUNNING. February 17th is @IReadCanadian Day! A day to appreciate and discover Canadian authors and illustrators by taking 15 minutes to read a Canadian book to kids (or any person, or pet, or even yourself)! About the book: Eric might not be getting along with his family—or anyone else, for that matter—but he's pretty sure a boarding school in another country isn't the answer. Skilled in parkour, running helps him deal. So be it, he decides. Do the time and get out. Flow like water. But when he gets a cryptic message from his brother telling him their parents have been abducted, and then his brother disappears, he realises they weren't punishing him, they were hiding him. To find them, Eric has to discover the secrets of his parents' research, but the conspiracy he uncovers threatens more than just his family. With help from unlikely new friends, a hack-first-ask-questions-later approach to computers, and a dangerous plan, he soon learns that some secrets don’t want to be found, and others have a way of revealing themselves at all the wrong times. #ireadcanadian #canlit #canlitforkids #kidsbookcentre #ccbc #amreading #readya #authorsofig #authorslifestyle #bookish #bookcommunity #bookstagram #booknerd #bookstoread #readthenorth #localauthor #canadianauthor #readlocal #instabook #igreads #bibliophile #yalit #booklover #bookphotography https://www.instagram.com/p/CLJxhlYA9tn/?igshid=1mvno6iedzhmj

Today’s I Read Canadian spotlight is on @jotreggiari and her most recent novel, THE GREY SISTERS. February 17th is @IReadCanadian Day! A day to appreciate and discover Canadian authors and illustrators by taking 15 minutes to read a Canadian book to kids (or any person, or pet, or even yourself)! About the book: D and Spider have always been close friends, and they are further united in their shared heartbreak: they both lost siblings in a horrific plane crash two years earlier. A chance sighting of a beloved cuddly toy in a photograph of the only survivor spurs D to finally seek closure. She and Spider and their friend, Min, set off on a road trip to the mountainside site of that terrible crash. Ariel has lived on the mountain all her life. She and her extended family are looked down upon by neighboring townsfolk and she has learned to live by her wits, trusting few people outside of her isolated, survivalist community. A terrifying attack sends her down the mountain for help; on her way, she comes upon the three girls -- a chance encounter that will have far-reaching consequences for them all. #ireadcanadian #canlit #canlitforkids #kidsbookcentre #ccbc #amreading #readya #authorsofig #authorslifestyle #bookish #bookcommunity #bookstagram #booknerd #bookstoread #readthenorth #localauthor #canadianauthor #readlocal #instabook #igreads #bibliophile #yalit #booklover #bookphotography https://www.instagram.com/p/CLHKT6qAI21/?igshid=184t8cma59qqd

Today’s I Read Canadian spotlight is on Lisa Moore and her novel, FLANNERY. February 17th is @IReadCanadian Day! A day to appreciate and discover Canadian authors and illustrators by taking 15 minutes to read a Canadian book to kids (or any person, or pet, or even yourself)! About the book: Sixteen-year-old Flannery Malone has it bad. She’s been in love with Tyrone O’Rourke since the days she still believed in Santa Claus. But Tyrone has grown from a dorky kid into an outlaw graffiti artist, the rebel-with-a-cause of Flannery’s dreams, literally too cool for school. Which is a problem, since he and Flannery are partners for the entrepreneurship class that she needs to graduate. And Tyrone’s vanishing act may have darker causes than she realizes. Tyrone isn’t Flannery’s only problem. Her mother, Miranda, can’t pay the heating bills, let alone buy Flannery’s biology book. Her little brother, Felix, is careening out of control. And her best-friend-since-forever, Amber, has fallen for a guy who is making her forget all about the things she’s always cared most about — Flannery included — leading Amber down a dark and dangerous path of her own. When Flannery decides to make a love potion for her entrepreneurship project, rumors that it actually works go viral, and she suddenly has a hot commodity on her hands. But a series of shattering events makes her realize that real-life love is far more potent — and potentially damaging — than any fairy-tale prescription. #ireadcanadian #canlit #canlitforkids #kidsbookcentre #ccbc #amreading #readya #authorsofig #authorslifestyle #bookish #bookcommunity #bookstagram #booknerd #bookstoread #readthenorth #localauthor #canadianauthor #readlocal #instabook #igreads #bibliophile #yalit #booklover #bookphotography https://www.instagram.com/p/CLElzrNAWYM/?igshid=szch268p0nx2