Book Release: A Summer of Dragonflies

DATE : September 8, 2025

DEADLINE: September 30, 2025 - 2:15 pm

What makes a person a hero? Guppie searches for the answer across an eye-opening family road trip.

A Summer of Dragonflies, a new book written by award-winning Edmonton author Natasha Deen, will be officially released on September 13, 2025. 

A Summer of Dragonflies is a humorous, heart-filled, family-oriented book about a cross-continent road trip. Terminally shy Guppie decides to use the trip as an opportunity to reinvent herself into a courageous hero like the ones in her favorite books. At first, Guppie tries to prove that she’s a hero through helping others and being bold, but she comes to understand that true courage means owning up to one’s mistakes and making amends.

A Summer of Dragonflies will be available for purchase at retailers on September 13, 2025. The book is intended for readers aged 9-12. 

Natasha Deen and is a best-selling and award-winning Guyanese-Canadian author, with books for children, young adults, and adults. She is a recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal. Her novel In the Key of Nira Ghani won the Amy Mathers Teen Book Award. Her works have also been nominated for the OLA Forest of Reading Red Maple Award, R. Ross Annett Award, Sunburst Award, Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence, and Alberta Readers’ Choice Award. Natasha teaches in the Creative Writing Program with the University of Toronto’s School of Continuing Studies and lives in Edmonton, Alberta.

For more information about A Summer of Dragonflies and Natasha Deen, visit natashadeen.com.