CBC Books shares 100 Young Adult books that make Canadians proud!

To help celebrate Canada Day, CBC Books has annually compiled lists of books that make us proud to be Canadian.  This year, that list honours young adult books.  It's an astounding list of classics and contemporary gems that brings attention to phenomenal youngCanLit.  There are award winners of the Canadian Library Association's Book of the Year for Children and the Young Adult Book of the Year; from the Ontario Library Association's Forest of Reading; and from the Canadian Children's Book Centre and TD Literature Awards.  And there are those which were published before any children's book awards were even established but would have won hands down, having wormed their way into our Canadian lit hearts.

I'm pleased to share their list, with cover art, here and have included links to reviews for those few I've shared with you here on CanLit for LittleCanadians.  So here is CBC Books list of. . .

100 Young Adult Books 

That Make You Proud to be Canadian

40 Things I Want to Tell You 
by Alice Kuipers
Review

A Spy in the House 

by Y.S. Lee 

A Thousand Shades of Blue 
by Robin Stevenson

Adam and Eve and Pinch-Me

by Julie Johnston 

Airborn 
by Kenneth Oppel

Alice, I Think 

by Susan Juby 

Anne of Green Gables 
by L M. Montgomery

Arctic Thunder 

by Robert Feagan

Ashes, Ashes 
by Jo Treggiari
Review 

At Risk 

by Jacqueline Guest 

Audacious 
by Gabrielle Prendergrast

Awake and Dreaming 

by Kit Pearson 

Bad Boy 
by Diana Wieler

Baygirl 

by Heather T. Smith

Between Sisters 
by Adwoa Badoe

Chanda's Secrets 

by Allan Stratton

Chasing Freedom 
by Gloria Ann Wesley

Child of Dandelions 

by Shenaaz Nanji 

Darkest Light 
by Hiromi Goto
Review

Demon Gate 

by Marty Chan 

Dust 
by Arthur Slade

Elijah of Buxton 

by Christopher Paul Curtis 

Escape to Gold Mountain 
by David H.T. Wong

Eye of the Crow 

by Shane Peacock

Fishtailing 
by Wendy Phillips

From Anna 

by Jean Little

Gemini Summer 
by Iain Lawrence

God Loves Hair 

by Vivek Shraya 

Good for Nothing 
by Michel Noel

Graffiti Knight 

by Karen Bass 

Review

Greener Grass 
by Caroline Pignat

Hana's Suitcase 

by Karen Levine
10th anniversary post

Hangman in the Mirror 
by Kate Cayley

Harriet's Daughter 

by Marlene NourbeSe Philip

Held 
by Edeet Ravel

Him Standing 

by Richard Wagamese

Hold Fast 
by Kevin Major

Hunger Journeys 

by Maggie DeVries 

I Am Algonquin 
by Rick Revell

In Search of April Raintree 

by Beatrice Culleton Mosionier

Innercity Girl Like Me
by Sabrina Bernardo

Little Brother 

by Cory Doctorow 

Lost in the Barrens 
by Farley Mowat

Money Boy 

by Paul Yee 

Murder on the Canadian
by Eric Wilson

My Book of Life by Angel 

by Martine Leavitt 

Review

Night Runner 
by Max Turner

Nix Minus One 

by Jill MacLean 

Review

Nobody Cries at Bingo 
by Dawn Dumont

Not Suitable for Family Viewing 

by Vicki Grant 

Obasan 
by Joy Kogawa

Odd Man Out 

by Sarah Ellis 

One in Every Crowd 
by Ivan E. Coyote

Pirate's Passage 

by William Gilkerson

Plain Kate 
by Erin Bow

Prairie Ostrich 

by Tamai Kobayashi

Run 
by Eric Walters

Shadow in Hawthorn Bay 

by Janet Lunn 

Shadows Cast by Stars 
by Catherine Knutsson

Shine, Coconut Moon 

by Neesha Meminger 

Skim 
by Mariko & Jillian Tamaki

Skraelings 

by Rachel and Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley

Slash 
by Jeannette Armstrong

Stitches 

by Glen Huser

Stones for My Father 
by Trilby Kent

Sugar Falls 

by David Alexander Robertson

Susceptible 
by Geneviève Castrée

Swimming in the Monsoon Sea 

by Shyam Selvadurai 

The Breadwinner 
by Deborah Ellis

The Crazy Man 

by Pamela Porter 

The Dream Carvers 
by Joan Clark

The Girls They Left Behind 

by Bernice Thurman Hunter

The Gravesavers 
by Sheree Fitch

The Keeper of the Isis Light

by Monica Hughes

The Landing
by John Ibbitson

The Lynching of Louie Sam

by Elizabeth Stewart

The Maestro
by Tim Wynne-Jones

The Night Wanderer

by Drew Hayden Taylor

The Painted Boy
by Charles de Lint

The Prince of Neither Here Nor There

by Seán Cullen

The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen
by Susin Nielsen
Review

The Silent Summer of Kyle McGinley

by Jan Andrews

Review

The Summoning
by Kelley Armstrong

The Tiffin

by Mahtab Narsimhan

Review

The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B
by Teresa Toten
Review

The Wondrous Woo

by Carrianne K.Y. Leung

This Can't be Happening at Macdonald Hall
by Gordon Korman

Throwaway Daughter

by Ting-Xing Te with William Bell

Thunder Over Kandahar
by Sharon C. McKay

Tilt

by Alan Cumyn

To Dance at the Palais Royale
by Janet McNaughton

True Confessions of a Heartless Girl

by Martha Brooks

Underground to Canada
by Barbara Smucker

Wanting Mor

by Rukhsana Khan

What World Is Left
by Monique Polak

When Everything Feels like the Movies

by Raziel Reid

Who Has Seen the Wind
by W. O. Mitchell

Wild Orchid

by Beverley Brenna

Will's Garden
by Lee Maracle

Wondrous Strange

by Lesley Livingston

Review of series

n.b. I have to admit that I have only read 47 of the 100 listed here.  I've still got lots of good reading ahead.  

Happy Canada Day!