The Sundog Award is for readers in grades 4-6

Read the 2023 Sundog Award nominees

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

Read the 2023 Northern Lights Award nominees

• Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao Winner!
• Blood Like Magic by Liselle Sambury
• If I Tell You the Truth by Jasmin Kaur
• Misfit in Love by S.K Ali
• The Project by Courtney Summers

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! 

Read suggested books for the 2023 BC Summer Reading Club

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

• Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize: Boy from Buchenwald by Robbie Waisman
• Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature Prize: Time is a Flower by Julie Morstad

• The Traitor's Blade by Kevin Sands Winner!
• Blood donor by Karen Bass
• Alice Fleck's Recipes for Disaster by Rachelle Delaney
• Hunting By Stars by Cherie Dimaline
• Don't Breathe a Word by Jordyn Taylor

It’s a Mitig! is a beautiful children’s book that combines Anishnaabemowin and English in a creative rhyming form. Children can learn some new words like amik (beaver) and gaag (porcupine) as they travel through the forest.  Bridget wrote this special book especially for families learning the language together and reconnecting with their culture. 

Read the selected Title in the Young Adult/Adult Category: It’s a Mitig! by Bridget George

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!

• A Boy Is Not a Ghost by Edeet Ravel
• Sorry For Your Loss by Joanne Levy
• Step by Deborah Ellis
• The Summer of Bitter and Sweet by Jen Ferguson Winner!
• Urchin by Kate Story

After her grandfather's death, a young girl wanders through his house. As she tours each room, the objects she discovers stir memories of her grandfather--her baba bozorg. A heartwarming look at love, loss, and memorable objects through the eyes of a child

Read the The Sour Cherry Tree by Naseem Hrab and Nahid Kazemi

• Birdspell by Valerie Sherrard
• A Boy is Not a Ghost by Edeet Ravel
• The Fabulous Zed Watson! by Basil Sylvester and Kevin Sylvester
• Elvis, Me, and the Lemonade Stand Summer by Leslie Gentile
• My Indian by Chief Mi’Sel Joe and Sheila O’Neill

• How to Promenade with a Python by Rachel Poliquin Winner!
• Amazing Black Atlantic Canadians by Lindsay Ruck
• Beavers: Radical Rodents and Ecosystem Engineers by Frances Backhouse
• Meet David Suzuki by Elizabeth MacLeod
• Unstoppable: Women With Disabilities by Helen Wolfe
• Walking for Water: How One Boy Stood Up for Gender Equality by Susan Hughes
• Wild Outside: Around the World with Survivorman by Les Stroud

• Time is a Flower by Julie Morstad Winner!
• Hare B&B by Bill Richardson 
• Lala's Words by Gracey Zhang
• On the Trapline by David A. Robertson
• We All Play/kimêtawânaw by Julie Flett

Never fear, Summer Reading Club is here! This summer, you’ll have fun learning all about things that make your hair stand on end.

Read accessible books from the New Brunswick Summer Reading Club 

• On the Trapline by David A. Robertson Winner!
• Borders by Thomas King
• The Fabulous Zed Watson by Basil Sylvester
• Growing Up Trans: In Our Own Words by Lindsay Herriot
• A Kid Is a Kid Is a Kid by Sara O'Leary

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 2023 TD Summer Reading Club books are now available in alternative formats!

2023 Recommended reads

2023 Supplemental reads