• In the key of Nira Ghani by Natasha Deen Winner!
• All our broken pieces by L.D Crichton 
• The candle and the flame by Nafiza Azad
• Keep this to yourself by Tom Ryan
• Love from A to Z by S.K Ali

The BC Summer Reading Club is a free literacy program designed to engage school-aged children, ages 5-14, with libraries and reading, throughout the summer! 

• Books for early readers
• Picture books
• Non-fiction titles
• Novels

• Chasing painted horses by Drew Hayden Taylor Winner!
• Crow winter by Karen McBride
• If I go missing by Brianna Jonnie Check at your public library!
• In my own moccasins by Helen Knott
• A mind spread out on the ground by Alicia Elliott

The Forest of Reading® is Canada's largest recreational reading program! This initiative of the Ontario Library Association (OLA) offers ten reading programs to encourage a love of reading in people of all ages. The Forest helps celebrate Canadian books, publishers, authors and illustrators. More than 270,000 readers participate annually from their school and/or public library. All Canadians are invited to participate via their local public library, school library, or individually.

Check out our dedicated Forest of Reading page, to get the scoop on accessible titles!

• The King of Jam Sandwiches by Eric Walters Winner!
• Harvey Holds His Own by Colleen Nelson
• Nevers by Sara Cassidy
• Pine Island Home by Polly Horvath
• The Barren Grounds by David A. Robertson

• The diamond mistake mystery by Sylvia McNicoll
• My life as a diamond by Jenny Manzer
• Mya’s strategy to save the world by Tanya Lloyd Kyi
• Nevers by Sara Cassidy
• Jacques' escape by Anne C. Kelly 
• Pickles vs. the Zombies by Angela Misri 
• Shiny and new by Robert Chafe 
• Ghost collector by Allison Mills
• No girls allowed by Natalie Corbett Sampson

• Acting wild by Maria Birmingham
• How to Become an Accidental Genius by Elizabeth MacLeod
• Meet Elsie MacGill by Elizabeth MacLeod
• Ramadan by Ausma Zehanat Khan
• Sharing Our Truths/Tapwe by Henry Beaver
• Why Don't Cars Run on Apple Juice? by Kira Vermond

• Small in the city by Sydney Smith Winner!
• Birdsong by Julie Flett 
• King mouse by Cary Fagan
• My winter city by James Gladstone Check your public library!
• The phone booth in Mr. Hirota's garden by Heather Smith 
• When I found grandma by Saumiya Salasubramaniam

All enchanted youngsters of New Brunswick can register for the 2021 Summer Reading Club. This years' theme is Reading is fantastic! featuring popular books on the theme of myths and magic.

Read accessible books from the New Brunswick Summer Reading Club 

Over the course of a calendar year, the OLA Best Bets Committee reads hundreds of Canadian books, choosing what they consider to be the best, from picture books to young adult, in both fiction and non-fiction.

• Picture books
• Juniors (intermediate readers)
• Young Adult

• Birdsong by Julie Flett Winner!
• Broken strings by Eric Walters
• It began with a page by Kyo Maclear
• Small in the city by Sydney Smith
• Stand on the sky by Erin Bow

TD Summer Reading Club is Canada’s biggest, bilingual summer reading program for kids of all ages, all interests, and all abilities. This free Club celebrates Canadian authors, illustrators and stories, and inspires kids to explore the fun of reading their way. This is key to building a lifelong love of reading. 

The 2021 TD Summer Reading Club books are now available in alternative formats!

2021 Recommended reads