Fall Reads 2018

Fall is a big season libraries and publishing with many new books published and award nominees and winners announced. We ensure as many of these new and award-winning books as possible.

Bookmark our Recommended Reading page and visit often to find great books in accessible formats, including nominees for the Forest of Reading, Hackmatack Awards, the Giller Prize and the Governor General's Awards

Top 10 books, according to you

CELA offers an excellent selection of titles for classroom use. Below is a list of the most popular titles downloaded by educators.

1. Diary of a wimpy kid by Jeff Kinney
2. Short for Chameleon by Vicki Grant
3. The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian by Sherman Alexie
4. Percy Jackson and the lightning thief by Rick Riordan
5. Charlotte's web by E.B. White
6. Bent not broken by Lorna Shultz Nicholson
7. The way back home by Allan Stratton
8. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's stone by J.K. Rowling
9. Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate Dicamillo
10. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

Accessible magazines, delivered to you

As part of our expanding services, educators can now use the Direct to Player service to subscribe to our collection of 150 DAISY text or audio magazines. Enjoy new issues, automatically placed on your bookshelf as soon as they are published.

Titles such as Newsweek and The Economist will give you more accessible content for media studies and current events projects. We also have titles for kids and teens, such as Ask, a science magazine for elementary school and Seventeen for teens.

To subscribe, browse our magazine list and select the magazines you would like to receive. Then send the list to help@celalibrary.ca or call us at 1-855-655-2273, and set up the subscription for you. Make sure you have the Dolphin EasyReader app or a wifi-enabled DAISY player set up so you can receive them. We are here to help if you have any questions!

Magazines you subscribe to will be placed in dedicated slots on your Direct to Player bookshelf as they become available. Initially, two slots have been automatically set aside for magazines but this can be adjusted based on your reading preferences. Delete the magazines when you are finished so you can receive new issues.

List of CELA magazines

Help us spread the word!

CELA is available for free to anyone with a print disability, or to educators who support them in their classroom learning. Please help us provide access to more students with print disabilities by sharing information about CELA with your colleagues or forwarding them this newsletter.

Visit celalibrary.ca/educators for more information about the Educator Access program.

Thank you to those who provided feedback about the program in our Educator Access survey we sent in the spring.