The Sundog Award is for readers in grades 4-6

Read the 2026 Sundog Award nominees

The Northern Lights Award is for readers in grades 7-8

Read the 2026 Northern Lights Award nominees

• Brighter Than the Sun by Daniel Aleman
• Delicious Monsters by Liselle Sambury
• Only This Beautiful Moment by Abdi Nazemian
• Something More by Jackie Khalilieh
• The Space Between Here & Now by Sarah Suk

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! 

The 2025 theme is Colour Your Summer!

Accessible books for the 2025 BC Summer Reading Club are now available. 

The  BC & Yukon Book Prizes celebrate outstanding writers and publishers in British Columbia.  

• Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize: Hopeless in Hope by Wanda John-Kehewin
• Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature Prize: My Baba’s Garden by Jordan Scott

• Someone Is Always Watching by Kelley Armstrong
• Funeral Songs for Dying Girls by Cherie Dimaline
• The Big Sting by Rachelle Delaney
• Catfish Rolling by Clara Kumagai
• Champions of the fox (Thieves of Shadow #3) by Kevin Sands

Read the selected title in the Young Adult/Adult category And Then She Fell by Alicia Elliott

Read the selected title in the Children’s Category: Freddie the Flyer by Fred Carmichael and Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail

The Forest of Reading® offers ten reading programs to encourage a love of reading in people of all ages. More than 270,000 readers participate annually from their school, public library, or individually.

Read the nominated titles for 2025!

• Read the winners for the 2024 GG Awards
• Read the finalists for the 2024 GG Awards

• Alina in a Pinch by Shenaaz Nanji
• A Bend in the Breeze by by Valerie Sherrard
• Forever Birchwood by Danielle Daniel
• Honey and Me by Meira Drazin
• Super Family! by Cale Atkinson
• Undercover Book List by Colleen Nelson
• Weird Rules to Follow by Kim Spencer

• How to Have High Tea with a Hyena (And Not Get Eaten) by Rachel Poliquin Winner!
• Can You Believe It? How to Spot Fake News and Find the Facts by Joyce Grant
• Muinji'j Asks Why: The Story of the Shubenacadie Residential School by Muinji'j and Shanika MacEachern
• Professor Goose Debunks Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Paulette Bourgeois
• Sharks Forever by Mark Leiren-Young
• Why Humans Build Up by Gregor Craigie
• I Can't Do What? by Heather 

• Skating Wild on an Inland Sea by Jean E. Pendziwol
• Love Is in the Bear by Judith Henderson Coming soon!
• Our Pool by Lucy Ruth Cummins Coming soon!
• Tulip in Winter by Kathy Stinson
• When You Can Swim by Jack Wong

Join us for an intergalactic adventure, as we prepare for a summer full of reading and discovery!
This year’s theme is Space. We’ll explore the cosmos to learn about planets and stars and wonder at the mysteries of the universe. Join us to READ, DISCOVER, and CREATE with books, activities, and programs that are out of this world.

Accessible reading recommendations for the 2025 New Brunswick Summer Reading Club.

• Do You Remember? by Sydney Smith
• Green Papayas by Nhung N. Tran-Davies
• Simon Sort of Says by Erin Bow
• Skating Wild on an Inland Sea by Jean E. Pendziwol
• The Umbrella House by Colleen Nelson

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. 

TD Summer Reading Club Recommended Reads list for 2025

Supplemental titles for the 2025 TD Summer Reading Club