2021 Forest of Reading® nominees: Yellow Cedar, Red Maple™, White Pine™

Here is the second listing of nominated titles for the 2021 Forest of Reading which includes:

• Blue Spruce: JK-Grade 2, picture books
• Silver Birch Express: Grades 3-4, fiction and non-fiction
• Silver Birch Fiction: Grades 3-6, fiction
• Yellow Cedar: Grades 4-8, non-fiction
• Red Maple: Grades 7-8, fiction
• White Pine: Grades 9-12, fiction
• Le prix Peuplier: French-language picture books, less text, simpler subject matters, perfect for read-alouds
• Le prix Mélèze: shorter French-language chapter books with maximum 100 pages or more mature picture books, larger text with pictures, simpler vocabulary and verb tenses
• Le prix Tamarac: French-language chapter books from 100 to 250 pages, smaller text with little or no illustrations, more complicated verb tenses and vocabulary

This posts includes the nominees for the Yellow Cedar, Red Maple and White Pine Awards. Links for the other six reading programs follow.

  

YELLOW CEDAR

The Boreal Forest: A Year In The World’s Largest Land Biome
Written by L. E. Carmichael
Illustrated by Josée Bisaillon
Kids Can Press

An Earthling’s Guide to Outer Space: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Black Holes, Dwarf Planets, Aliens, and More
Written by Bob McDonald
Simon & Schuster Canada

 

Gone Is Gone: Wildlife Under Threat

Written by Isabelle Groc

Orca Book Publishers

 

Hawks Kettle, Puffins Wheel: And Other Poems of Birds in Flight

Written by Susan Vande Griek

Illustrated by Mark Hoffmann

Kids Can Press 

It Began With a Page: How Gyo Fujikawa Drew the Way
Written by Kyo Maclear

Illustrated by Julie Morstad

Tundra

One Earth: People of Color Protecting Our Planet
Written by Anuradha Rao
Orca Book Publishers

Powwow: A Celebration through Song and Dance
Written by Karen Pheasant-Neganigwane

Orca Book Publishers

Science Comics: Crows, Genius Birds
Written and Illustrated by Kyla Vanderklugt

First Second

Trending: How and Why Stuff Gets Popular
Written by Kira Vermond

Illustrated by Clayton Hanmer

Owlkids Books

Under Pressure: The Science of Stress
Written by Tanya Lloyd Kyi

Illustrated by Marie-Ève Tremblay

Kids Can Press

 RED MAPLE™

Bloom
Written by Kenneth Oppel
HarperCollins
Reviewed here

Broken Strings
Written by Eric Walters and Kathy Kacer
Penguin Random House Canada Young Readers

Dragon Assassin

Written by Arthur Slade

Scholastic Canada

 

If I Go Missing
Written by Brianna Jonnie with Nahanni Shingoose

Illustrated by Neal Shannacappo

James Lorimer & Company 

The Other Side
Written by Heather Camlot

Red Deer Press

 

 

 

 

 

The Rise and Fall of Derek Cowell
Written by Valerie Sherrard

DCB

 

Safe Harbour
Written by Christina Kilbourne 

Dundurn

Sara and the Search for Normal
Written by Wesley King

Paula Wiseman Books

Reviewed here

A Treason of Thorns
Written by Laura E. Weymouth

HarperCollins

Yara’s Spring
Written by Jamal Saeed and Sharon E. McKay

Annick Press

WHITE PINE™

Break in Case of Emergency
Written by Brian Francis

HarperCollins Canada

 

Charming As A Verb
Written by Ben Philippe 

HarperCollins

Fan the Fame
Written by Anna Priemaza

HarperTeen

Frying Plantain
Written by Zalika Reid-Benta

House of Anansi

He Must Like You
Written by Danielle Young-Ullman

Penguin Random House Canada Young Readers

Reviewed here

Hunted by the Sky
Written by Tanaz Bhathena

Penguin Random House Canada Young Readers

Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me

Written by Mariko Tamaki, Illustrated by Rosemary Valero-O’Connell

Groundwood Books

 

Like a Love Story
Written by Abdi Nazemian 

HarperCollins

The Starlight Claim
Written by Tim Wynne-Jones

Candlewick

Reviewed here

You Don’t Have To Die in the End
Written by Anita Daher

Yellow Dog

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

 

Blue Spruce

Silver Birch Express

Silver Birch Fiction

Le prix Peuplier

Le prix Mézèle

Le prix Tamarac