October 16, 2025

2026 Forest of Reading® nominees: Yellow Cedar, Red Maple, White Pine

 Here is the second grouping of nominated titles from the 2026 Forest of Reading® book awards of the Ontario Library Association:
  • Yellow Cedar: non-fiction for Grades 4 to 8
  • Red Maple: fiction for Grades 7 and 8
  • White Pine: fiction for Grades 9 to 12


  

YELLOW CEDAR








Game Changers: Stories of Hijabi Athletes from Around the World

Written by Charlene Smith
Illustrated by Natayla Tariq
Orca Book Publishers
 

How to Know a Crow: The Biography of a Brainy Bird

Written by Candace Savage
Illustrated by Rachel Hudson
Greystone Kids 
 

The Land Knows Me: A Nature Walk Exploring Indigenous Wisdom

Written by Leigh Joseph
Illustrated by Natalie Schnitter
becker&mayer! kids 
 

Octopus Ocean: Geniuses of the Deep

Written by Mark Lieren-Young
Orca Book Publishers 
 

Salt, Pepper, Season, Spice: All the Flavors of the World

Written by Jacques Pasquet 
Translated by Ann Marie Boulanger
Illustrated by Claire Anghinolfi
Orca Book Publishers 


A Sick History of Medicine: A Warts-And-All Book Full of Fun Facts and Disgusting Discoveries

Written by Jelena Poleksic
Illustrated by Ella Kasperowicz
Neon Squid


Spooky Lakes: 25 Strange and Mysterious Lakes That Dot Our Planet
Written and Illustrated by Geo Rutherford
Abrams Books for Young Readers
 

The True Story of Vanilla: How Edward Albius Made History

Written by Ann Richards
Illustrated by Arden Taylor
Orca Book Publishers 
 

Up, Up, Ever Up! Junko Tabei: A Life in the Mountains

Written by Anita Yasuda
Illustrated by Yuko Shimizu
Clarion Books 
 

Zoom in on Zombies
Written by Kari-Lynn Winters & Catherine Rondina
Fitzhenry & Whiteside 




 
RED MAPLE™


 




The Dark Won't Wait

Written by David A. Poulson
Red Deer Press
 

The Discovery of Finnegan Wilde

Written by Caroline Pignat
Thistledown Press
 

The Factory

Written by Catherine Egan
Scholastic Canada 
 

Finding Harmony

Written by Eric Walters
Orca Book Publishers
 

If We Tell You

Written by Nicola Dahlin
Kids Can Press
 

Is There a Boy Like Me?

Written by Kern Carter
Scholastic Canada
 

No Purchase Necessary

Written by Maria Marianayagam
HarperCollins
 

Old School

Written by Gordon Korman
Scholastic Canada
 

The Time Keeper

Written by Meagan Mahoney
DCB Young Readers
 

Unsinkable Cayenne

Written by Jessica Vitalis
Greenwillow Books 


 






WHITE PINE™





Beast

Written by Richard Van Camp
Douglas & McIntyre 
 

A Drop in the Ocean
Written by LƩa Taranto
Arsenal Pulp Press 
 

For She is Wrath
Written by Emily Varga
Wednesday Books
 

The History of Everything
Written and illustrated by Victoria Evans
HarperAlley  
  

Messy Perfect
Written by Tanya Boteju 
Quill Tree Books 


Recommended Reading

Written by Paul Coccia
Zando Young Readers 
Reviewed here 


Songs for Ghosts
Written by Clara Kumagai
Penguin Teen Canada 
 

Titan of the Stars
Written by E.K. Johnston
Tundra Books 
 

The Unfinished
Written by Cheryl Isaacs 
Heartdrum  
 

The Unweaving
Written by Cheryl Parisien
Tidewater Press 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Nominees for the other programs can be linked to from below:



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