December 7 marks Letter-Writing Day. And, in each of the following titles, one significant letter or many letters or emails are the basis for the book's plot. Letters, missives, epistles, memos, post-its, emails, texts and such are communications that figure prominently in each of these tomes, whether the very essence of the book's format or the impetus by which the story is told. So, whether you are a teacher wanting to introduce young students to writing letters, or you enjoy the snappiness of short texts, or just love the personal nature of letter communications, these books of youngCanLit have something for everyone.
PICTURE BOOKS
Written by Sarah Stewart
Illustrated by David Small
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
32 pp.
Ages 5–11
1997
Written by Jennifer Lanthier
Illustrations by François Thisdale
Fitzhenry & Whiteside
32 pp.
Ages 8+
2012
Reviewed here
Wolf Wanted
Written by Ana Maria Machado
Illustrated by Laurent Cardon
Translated by Elisa Amado
Groundwood Books
40 pp.
Ages 8-9
2010
FICTION
Dear Elsa
Red Deer Press
240 pp.
Ages 8-12
Written by Alan Cumyn
Groundwood Books
181 pp.
Ages 8-12
2008
Written by Cyndi Sand-Eveland
Tundra Books
112 pp.
Ages 8-12
2008
Written by Becky Citra
Second Story Press
195 pp.
Ages 9-12
2014
Written by Karen Rivers
Alfred A. Levine Books/Scholastic
304 pp.
Ages 10-14
2014
Reviewed here
Written by Marie-Danielle Croteau
Illustrated by Bruno St-Aubin
Translated by Sarah Cummins
Formac
61 pp.
Ages 6-8
2005
Written by Rie Charles
Dundurn
155 pp.
Ages 11-12
2014
Written by Deborah Ellis
Fitzhenry & Whiteside
201 pp.
Ages 8-13
2007
Written by Jacqueline halsey
Orca Book Publishers
116 pp.
Ages 6-11
2005
Written by Kit Pearson
HarperCollins Canada
261 pp.
Ages 9+
2011
Reviewed here
YOUNG ADULT
Written by R. P. MacIntyre & Wendy MacIntyre
Groundwood
176 pp.
Ages 13-16
2007
Written by Martine Leavitt
Groundwood Books
192 pp.
Ages 12+
2015
Reviewed here
Written by Darren Hynes
Razorbill/Penguin Canada
309 pp.
Age 13+
2013
Reviewed here
Written by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch
Pajama Press
288 pp.
Ages 12+
2014
Reviewed here
Written by Kevin Major
Doubleday
144 pp.
Ages 10-14
1987
Written by Susin Nielsen
Tundra Books
240 pp.
Ages 11-14
2010
Written by Christina Kilbourne
Lobster Press
190 pp.
Ages 10-15
2007
The Farmerettes
Written by Gisela Tobien Sherman
Second Story Press
348 pp.
Ages 13-18
2015
A Foreign Field
Written by Gillian Chan
Kids Can Press
192 pp.
Ages 10-14
2002
Written by Bernice Thurman Hunter
Fitzhenry & Whiteside
191 pp.
Ages 13-15
2005
Written by Pamela Porter
Groundwood Books
280 pp.
Ages 12+
2011
Reviewed here
Written by Matt Beam
Puffin
161 pp.
Ages 12+
2009
Written by Barbara Ware Holmes
HarperCollins Canada
234 pp.
Ages 11-14
1997
Written by Alice Kuipers
HarperCollins Canada
240 pp.
Ages 12+
2007
Written by Julie Johnston
Tundra Books
352 pp.
Ages 10+
2013
Written by Nina Schindler
Annick Press
112 pp.
Ages 13+
2004
Written by K. L. Danman
Orca Book Publishers
128 pp.
Ages 10-14
2007
Written by Sara Cassidy
Orca Book Publishers
116 pp.
Ages 10-14
2010
The Way We Fall
Written by Megan Crewe
Hyperion Disney Group
308 pp.
Ages 12+
2011
Reviewed here
We Contain Multitudes
Penguin Teen
384 pp.
Ages 14+
Written by Dawn Green
Red Deer Press
228 pp.
Ages 12+
April 2015
Reviewed here
NON-FICTION
Written by Hugh Brewster
Madison Press Books
63 pp.
Ages 10+
1996
Written by Mark Abley
Annick Press
131 pp.
Ages 9-13
2009
Written by Marion Fargey Brooker
Dundurn
141 pp.
Ages 12-15
2011
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