With the ads starting for back-to-school sales and everyone starting to think about the beginning of the school year, consider some of these 87 (!) books–picture books, novels, young adult and non-fiction– as read-alouds. Whether dealing with bullies, or undertaking research projects, looking back at schools of the past, these reads have got it all.
Picture Books
Alice, I Think
by Susan Juby
HarperCollins Canada
244 pp.
Ages 12+
2003
The Baby Project
Bifocal
Branded
Cape Town
Chance to Dance for You
Creeps
Cut the Lights
The Dewpoint Show
Drummer Girl
Fragile Bones: Harrison & Anna
Game Plan
Kissing Frogs
The New Normal
The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen
The Taming
The Throne
Tribes
We Are All Made of Molecules
What We Hide
When Kacey Left
A+ for Big Ben
by Sarah Ellis
Illustrated by Kim La Fave
Pajama Press
24 pp.
Ages 2-5
2015
The Best Thing about Kindergarten
by Jennifer Lloyd
Illustrated by Qin Leng
Simply Read Books
36 pp.
2013
Community Soup
by Alma Fullerton
Pajama Press
32 pp.
Ages 4-7
2013
The Day My Mom Came to Kindergarten
by Maureen Fergus
Illustrated by Mike Lowery
Kids Can Press
32 pp.
Ages 3-7
2013
Franklin Goes to School
by Paulette Bourgeois
Illustrated by Brenda Clark
Kids Can Press
32 pp.
Ages 3-6
1995
Get Out of Bed!
by Robert Munsch
Illustrated by Alan and Lea Daniel
Scholastic Canada
32 pp.
Ages 3-7
1998
Gift Days
by Kari-Lynn Winters
Illustrated by Stephen Taylor
Fitzhenry & Whiteside
32 pp.
Ages 7+
2012
Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress
by Christine Baldacchino
Illustrated by Isabelle Malenfant
Groundwood Books
32 pp.
Ages 4-7
2014
Groundwood Books
32 pp.
Ages 4-7
2014
Noni is Nervous
by Heather Hartt-Sussman
Illustrated by Geneviève Côté
Tundra
24 pp.
Ages 2-6
2013
Oddrey and the New Kid
by Dave Whamond
Owlkids
32 pp.
Ages 4-7
2013
An Ordinary School Day
by C. J. Hamilton
Illustrated by Cindy Revell
Annick Press
24 pp.
Ages 5-9
2004
The Pocket Mommy
by Rachel Eugster
Illustrated by Tom Goldsmith
Tundra Books
32 Pages
Ages 4-6
2013
Suki's Kimono
by Chieri Uegaki
Illustrated by Stephane Jorisch
Kids Can Press
32 pp.
Ages 3-7
2005
Tilt Your Head, Rosie the Red
by Rosemary McCarney
Illustrated by Yvonne Cathcart
Second Story Press
24 pp.
Ages 4-7
2015
Willow Finds a Way
by Lana Button
Illustrated by Tania Howells
Kids Can Press
32 pp.
Ages 5-7
2013
Violet
by Tania Duprey Stehlik
Illustrated by Vanja Vuleta Jovanic
Second Story Press
24 pp.
Ages 5-8
2009
Fiction
4 Kids in 5E and 1 Crazy Year
by Virginia Frances Schwartz
Scholastic Canada
244 pp.
Ages 10-13
2007
26 Tips for Surviving Grade 6
by Catherine Austen
James Lorimer
168 pp.
Ages 8-12
2011
28 Tricks for a Fearless Grade 6
by Catherine Austen
James Lorimer
189 pp.
Ages 9-12
2014
Athlete vs. Mathlete
by W. C. Mack
Scholastic Canada
172 pp.
Ages 9-12
2013
The BEDMAS Conspiracy
by Deborah Sherman
Fitzhenry & Whiteside
172 pp.
Ages 8-11
20011
Bernadette and the Lunch Bunch
by Suzanne Glickman
Illustrated by Mélanie Allard
Second Story Press
123 pp.
Ages 7-9
2008
Dunces Anonymous
by Kate Jaimet
Orca Book Publishers
157 pp.
Ages 8-12
2009
Dunces Rock
by Kate Jaimet
Orca Book Publishers
215 pp.
Ages 8-11
2014
Egghead
by Caroline Pignat
Red Deer Press
173 pp.
Ages 11-14
2008
Ghost Most Foul
by Patti Grayson
Coteau Books
192 pp.
Ages 10-13
2015
The Glory Wind
by Valerie Sherrard
Fitzhenry & Whiteside
Fitzhenry & Whiteside
222 pp.
Ages 11+
2010
How to Tame a Bully
by Nancy Wilcox Richards
Illustrated by Drazen Kozjan
Scholastic Canada
80 pp.
Ages 7-10
2006
Invasion of the IQ Snatchers
by Arthur Slade
Coteau Books
115 pp.
Ages 8-12
2007
Jolted: Newton Starker’s Rules for Survival
by Arthur Slade
HarperCollins Canada
203 pp.
Ages 11-14
2008
Late for School (Haley and Bix)
by Scott Higgs
Scholastic Canada
30 pp.
Ages 6-7
2007
The Mealworm Diaries
by Anna Kerz
Orca Book Publishers
176 pp.
Ages 9+
2009
Milo: Sticky Notes and Brain Freeze
by Alan Silberberg
Aladdin
288 pp.
Ages 8-13
2011
The Missing Dog is Spotted
by Jessica Scott Kerrin
Groundwood Books
204 pp.
Ages 8-12
March, 2015
Monsters in the School
by Martyn Godfrey
Scholastic Canada
86 pp.
Ages 7-9
1991
by Martyn Godfrey
Scholastic Canada
86 pp.
Ages 7-9
1991
No More Dead Dogs
by Gordon Korman
Scholastic Canada
192 pp.
Ages 8-12
2002
Not Fair, Clare
by Yvonne Prinz
Raincoast Books
197 pp.
Ages 11-13
2008
by Yvonne Prinz
Raincoast Books
197 pp.
Ages 11-13
2008
Overtime
by David Skuy
Scholastic Canada
216 pp.
Ages 11-14
2011
Pigboy
by Vicki Grant
Orca Book Publishers
101 pp.
Ages 9-13
2006
Rain Shadow
by Valerie Sherrard
Fitzhenry & Whiteside
150 pp.
Ages 10+
2014
Revenge on the Fly
by Sylvia McNicoll
Pajama Press
224 pp.
Ages 8+
2014
Rex Zero: The Great Pretender
by Tim Wynne-Jones
Groundwood Books
224 pp.
Ages 10-14
2009
Running Scared
by Beverley Terrell-Deutsch
Red Deer Press
176 pp.
Ages 9-12
2013
Schooled
by Gordon Korman
Scholastic Canada
208 pp.
Ages 8-12
2007
The Secret of Grim Hill
by Linda DeMeulemeester
Lobster Press
187 pp.
Ages 8-12
2007
The Sixth Grade Nickname Game
by Gordon Korman
Scholastic Canada
160 pp.
Ages 8-12
2004
Speechless
by Jennifer Mook-Sang
Scholastic Canada
184 pp.
Ages 8-12
September, 2015
The Spotted Dog Last Seen
by Jessica Scott Kerrin
Groundwood Books
196 pp.
Ages 8-11
2013
The Strictest School in the World: Being the Tale of a Clever Girl, a Rubber Boy and a Collection of Flying Machines, Mostly Broken
by Howard Whitehouse
Illustrated by Bill Slavin
Kids Can Press
252 pp.
Ages 11-14
2006
This Can’t Be Happening at Macdonald Hall
by Gordon Korman
Scholastic Canada
116 pp.
Ages 8-12
1978/2011
The Time Time Stopped
by Don Gilmour
Scholastic Canada
151 pp.
Ages 8-11
2011
Ungifted
by Gordon Korman
Scholastic Canada
260 pp.
Ages 8-12
2012
Young Adult
by Susan Juby
HarperCollins Canada
244 pp.
Ages 12+
2003
by Sarah Ellis
Groundwood Books
144 pp.
Ages 12+
1986
by Deborah Ellis and Eric Walters
Fitzhenry & Whiteside
280 pp.
Ages 12-15
2007
by Eric Walters
Orca Book Publishers
136 pp.
Ages 10-14
2010
by Brenda Hammond
Great Plains Teen Fiction
326 pp.
Ages 14+
2012
by Gail Sidonie Sobat
Great Plains Teen Fiction
172 pp.
Ages 14+
2011
Ages 14+
2011
by Darren Hynes
Razorbill/Penguin Canada
309 pp.
Age 13 +
2013
by Karen Krossing
Orca Book Publishers
129 pp.
Ages 11-14
2013
Depth of Field
by Chantel Guertin
ECW Press
208 pp.
Ages 13+
2014
by Chantel Guertin
ECW Press
208 pp.
Ages 13+
2014
by Barb Howard
Fitzhenry & Whiteside
231 pp.
Ages 11-14
2010
by Karen Bass
Coteau Books
192 pp.
Ages 14+
2011
by Lorna Schultz Nicholson
Clockwise Press
217 pp.
Ages 13+
March 2015
by Natalie Corbett Sampson
Fierce Ink Press
351 pp.
Ages 12+
2013
by Alisha Sevigny
Fierce Ink Press
231 pp.
Ages 12+
2014
My Parents Are Sex Maniacs: A High School Horror Story
by Robyn Harding
Annick Press
235 pp.
Ages 14-16
2009
by Robyn Harding
Annick Press
235 pp.
Ages 14-16
2009
by Ashley Little
Orca Book Publishers
222 pp.
Ages 12+
2013
by Susin Nielsen
Tundra Books
243 pp.
Ages 11-14
2012
Straight Punch
by Monique Polak
Orca Book Publishers
249 pp.
Ages 13-16
2014
by Monique Polak
Orca Book Publishers
249 pp.
Ages 13-16
2014
by Eric Walters and Teresa Toten
Doubleday Canada
229 pp.
Ages 13-17
2012
by Beth Goobie
Red Deer Press
281 pp.
Ages 14+
2013
by Arthur Slade
HarperTrophy Canada
166 pp.
Ages 12+
2004
The Truth Commission
by Susan Juby
Razorbill Canada
272 pp.
Ages 14+
April 2015
by Susan Juby
Razorbill Canada
272 pp.
Ages 14+
April 2015
by Susin Nielsen
Tundra Books
246 pp.
Ages 12+
May 2015
by Marthe Jocelyn
Tundra Books
275 pp.
Ages 14+
2014
by Dawn Green
Red Deer Press
228 pp.
Ages 12+
April 2015
Non-Fiction
The Delta is My Home
by Tom McLeod and Mindy Willett
Fifth House
26 pp.
Ages 7-10
2008
Fatty Legs: A True Story
by Christy Jordan-Fenton and Margaret Pokiak-Fenton
Illustrated by Liz Amini-Holmes
Annick Press
104 pp.
Ages 7-11
2010
Goodbye Buffalo Bay
by Larry Loyie
Theytus Books
142 pp.
Ages 10-14
2008
Off to Class: Incredible and Unusual Schools Around the World
by Susan Hughes
Owlkids Books
64 pp.
Ages 8-13
2011
Razia’s Ray of Hope: One Girl’s Dream of an Education
by Elizabeth Suneby
Illustrated by Suana Verelst
Kids Can Press
36 pp.
Ages 8-10
2013
by Elizabeth Suneby
Illustrated by Suana Verelst
Kids Can Press
36 pp.
Ages 8-10
2013
Reptile Flu: A story about communication
by Kathryn Cole
Illustrated by Qin Leng
Second Story Press
24 pp.
Ages 5-8
April 2015
School Days Around the World
by Margriet Ruurs
Illustrated by Alice Feagan
Kids Can Press
40 pp.
Ages 4-7
2015
by Margriet Ruurs
Illustrated by Alice Feagan
Kids Can Press
40 pp.
Ages 4-7
2015
Shannen and the Dream for a School
by Janet Wilson
Second Story Press
206 pp.
Ages 8+
2011
The Way to School
by Rosemary McCarney and Plan International
Second Story Press
32 pp.
Ages 7-12
September 2015
When I Was Eight
by Christy Jordan-Fenton and Margaret Pokiak-Fenton
Illustrated by Gabrielle Grimard
Annick Press
32 pp.
Ages 6-9
2013
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