Forest Kid Committee and Forest Teen Committee: Summer Reading Lists

In the past several weeks, selected young readers who'd applied to participate on the second Forest Kid Committee (ages 9-13) and the first Forest Teen Committee (ages 14+) came together at the Ontario Library Association and talked books.  From their discussions, which were interspersed with visits from award-winning Canadian authors and pizza and ice cream, these young people produced three extraordinary lists of recommended titles to keep everyone reading Canadian over the summer.  These are their recommendations to their peers in the Silver Birch, Red Maple and White Pine reading programs of the Forest of Reading.


Silver Birch (Grades 3-6)

Clara Humble and the Not-So-Super Powers
by Anna Humphrey
Owlkids Books
224 pp.
Ages 8-12
2016

Dingus
by Andrew Larsen
Kid Can Press
208 pp.
Ages 9-12
2017
Reviewed here

Downside Up
by Richard Scrimger
Tundra Books
272 pp.
Ages 9-12
2016

Howard Wallace PI: Shadow of a Pug
by Casey Lyall
Sterling Children’s Books
247 pp.
Ages 8-12
2017

MiNRS 3
by Kevin Sylvester
Simon & Schuster
336 pp.
Ages 8-12
2018

Missing Mike
by Shari Green
Pajama Press
248 pp.
Ages 8-12
2018
Review here

Seeking Refuge
by Irene N. Watts
Illus. by Kathryn E. Shoemaker
Tradewind Books
136 pp.
Ages 8-11
2017

Supergifted
by Gordon Korman
Scholastic Canada
297 pp.
Ages 8-12
2018

These Are My Words: The Residential School Diary of Violet Pesheens, Northern Ontario, 1966
by Ruby Slipperjack
Scholastic Canada
192 pp.
Ages 9-12
2016

A World Below
by Wesley King
Simon & Schuster
272 pp.
Ages 8-12
2018








Red Maple (Grades 7-8)

90 Days of Different
by Eric Walters
Orca Book Publishers
312 pp.
Ages 12+
2017

250 Hours
by Colleen Nelson
Coteau Books
152 pp.
Ages 12+
2015
Review here

The Assassin’s Curse (The Blackthorn Key Book 3)
by Kevin Sands
Simon & Schuster Canada
532 pp.
Ages 9-13
2017

Don’t Tell the Enemy
by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch
Scholastic Canada
184 pp.
Ages 10-14
2018
Review here

The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore
by Kim Fu
HarperCollins Canada
256 pp.
Ages 12-17
2018

The Painting
by Charis Cotter
Tundra
271 pp.
Ages 9-13
2017

Say You Will
by Eric Walters
Doubleday Canada
192 pp.
Ages 12+
2015

A Time to Run
by Lorna Schultz Nicholson
Clockwise Press
208 pp.
Ages 11-15
2018

To Look a Nazi in the Eye
by Kathy Kacer with Jordana Lebowitz
Second Story Press
256 pp.
Ages 13-19
2017

Trial by Fire: A Riley Donovan Mystery
by Norah McClintock
Orca Book Publishers
231 pp.
Ages 12+
2016
Review here




White Pine (Grades 9+)

36 Questions That Changed My Mind About You
by Vicki Grant  
Running Press Teens
288 pp.
Ages 13+
2017
Review here

90 Days of Different
by Eric Walters
Orca Book Publishers
312 pp.
Ages 12+
2017

The Agony of Bun O’Keefe
by Heather Smith
Razorbill Canada
224 pp.
Ages 12+
2017

Caterpillars Can’t Swim
by Liane Shaw
Second Story Press
256 pp.
Ages 13-18
2017
Review here

The Game of Hope
by Sandra Gulland
Penguin Teen
384 pp.
Ages 14-18
2018

Kat and Meg Conquer the World
by Anna Priemaza
Harper Teen
368 pp.
Ages 13+
2017

Maud
by Melanie J. Fishbane
Penguin Teen
386 pp.
Ages 12+
2017

Missing
by Kelley Armstrong
Doubleday Canada
375 pp.
Ages 12+
2017

Munro vs. The Coyote
by Darren Groth
Orca Book Publishers
288 pp.
Ages 12+
2017

On the Spectrum
by Jennifer Gold
Second Story Press
336 pp.
Age 13-18
2017
Review here

Prince of Pot
by Tanya Lloyd Kyi
Groundwood Books
216 pp.
Ages 13+
2017
Review here

Pulse Point
by Colleen Nelson and Nancy Chappell-Pollack
Yellow Dog
192 pp.
Ages 12-15
2018
Review here

Saints and Misfits
by S.K. Ali
Simon & Schuster
336 pp.
Ages 15+
2017

The Skeleton Tree
by Iain Lawrence
Tundra Books
288 pp.
Ages 10-15
2016

With Malice
by Eileen Cook
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
316 pp.
Ages 13+
2016
Review here




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The downloadable lists, which include annotations about each book, can be downloaded from the Ontario Library Association's Forest of Reading at the following links:

Forest Kid Committee Summer Reading List for Grades 3-8
http://www.accessola.org/web/Documents/OLA/Forest/Resources/2018/Kid%20Committee%20List%202018.pdf

Forest Teen Committee Summer Reading List for Grades 9+
http://www.accessola.org/web/Documents/OLA/Forest/Resources/2018/Teen%20Committee%20List%202018.pdf