Last week, fifteen children who had been selected from well over 100 applicants of the Forest of Reading attended a full-day session of talking books at the offices of the Ontario Library Association. Their mission was to compile a summer reading list for readers of Silver Birch and Red Maple reading ages. These voracious young readers brought recommendations and talked books with their peers and also with guest authors Kevin Sylvester and Vikki VanSickle who attended in person and Gordon Korman and Wesley King who joined the proceedings via Skype. It was a full day of youngCanLit and the efforts of these amazing young people helped produce this very first list of the Forest Kid Committee. Enjoy!
Suggested Summer Reading List for
Silver Birch Readers (Ages 9-11)
Written by Kenneth Oppel
HarperCollins Canada
Review here
Written by Kit Pearson
HarperTrophy
Dragons vs. Drones
Written by Wesley King
Razorbill
Written by Victoria Forester
Feiwel & Friends
Written by Esta Spalding
Tundra Books
Review here
Written by Melanie Fishbane
Penguin Teen
Written by Kevin Sylvester
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Written by Moira Young
Doubleday Canada
Written by Gordon Korman
Scholastic
Written by Susin Nielsen
Tundra Books
Review here
Suggested Summer Reading List
for Red Maple Readers (Ages 12-13)
Bent Not Broken: Madeline & Justin
Written by Lorna Schultz Nicholson
Clockwise Press
Every Hidden Thing
Written by Kenneth Oppel
HarperCollins
The Explorers: The Door in the Alley
Written by Adrienne Kress
Delacorte Books for Young Readers
In Real Life
Written by Cory Doctorow
Illustrated by Jen Wang
First Second
Laura Monster Crusher
Written by Wesley King
Puffin Canada
MiNRS 2
Written by Kevin Sylvester
Margaret K. McElderry Books
A Month of Mondays
Written by Joëlle Anthony
Second Story Press
Optimists Die First
Written by Susin Nielsen
Tundra Books
Restart
Written by Gordon Korman
Scholastic
Sophie Quire and the Last Storyguard
Written by Jonathan Auxier
Puffin Canada
Full details, including a listing of the incredible participants in the first ever Forest Kid Committee, can be viewed at the Ontario Library Association website media release here.
great list!!!
ReplyDeleteThese young readers came to the table with so many wonderful books to recommend. It was hard for them to whittle it down to just ten but they did, coming to consensus with a maturity and an enthusiasm that can only come from readers of great books. I applaud these young readers for their recommendations, their deliberations and their selections.
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