Hi Alex, this promotion is for teens 13 to 19 years old!

Hey Vivek, there's a poem all about yellow in the upcoming Young Voices magazine! I'm including it below, to give people a preview of the great stuff they can look forward to in Young Voices 2016, coming to Toronto Public Library branches at the end of October! Yellow She wakes me up in the morning with a blinding smile that lights up my room like a heavenly sundial. She is the field of sunflowers swaying in the hot summer breeze, that wave at me, she loves to tease. She is the canary perched high in the lilac tree that sings her sweet melody but she’s ever so prone to jealousy. She is the sharp pencil that scribbles this pointless poem, laughing as I struggle, my thoughts are completely muddled. She is the bright raincoat that makes me stand out like a beacon, a small boat, barely afloat amid a sea of strangers. Yellow is my friend despite her odd personality she is always there to mend and sweep me away from reality. by Jordan MacDonald, age 14

Hi Courtney, if you live or go to school in Toronto and are between the ages of 12-19, you should check out our Young Voices electronic writer in residence. You can email her your creative writing and get one on one feedback! You can contact her at [email protected], and you can check out her blog here: http://torontopubliclibrary.typepad.com/teens/e-writer-in-residence-2015/ You might also want to sign up for the library email newsletter for teens. Just go here: http://torontopubliclibrary.typepad.com/teens/teens-newsletter.html

This is the best argument in favour of paper books that I ever heard... and you can't make book art out of ebooks no one wants anymore! By the way, I don't have an ereader, can someone please tell me what they actually smell like?