Looking for a good book? The 2013 Forest of Reading Lists can be found at: http://www.accessola.org/OLAWEB/Forest_of_Reading/2013_Nominated_Lists/OLAWEB/Forest_of_Reading/Current_Program_Year.aspx
Or right here:
Blue Spruce (JK-Grade 2)
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Busy Beaver by Nicholas Oldland
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Don’t Laugh at Giraffe by Rebecca Bender
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Ella May and the Wishing Stone by Cary Fagan, Geneviève Côté
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Here Comes Hortense! by Heather Hartt-Sussman, Georgia Graham
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JoJo the Giant by Jane Barclay, Esperança Melo
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Kate and Pippin by Martin Springett, Isobel Springett
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Larf by Ashley Spires
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Really and Truly by Émilie Rivard, Anne-Claire Delisle
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Splinters by Kevin Sylvester
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You Are Stardust by Elin Kelsey, Soyeon Kim
Silver Birch Express (Grades 3-4)
- Ankylosaur Attack: Tales of Prehistoric Life by Daniel Loxton, Jim W. W. Smith
- Dalen & Gole: Scandal in Port Angus by Mike Deas
- Harry Houdini: The Legend of the World’s Greatest Escape Artist by Janice Weaver, Chris Lane
- In The Bag! Margaret Knight Wraps It Up by Monica Kulling, David Parkins
- I Owe You One by Natalie Hyde
- Loon by Susan Vande Griek, Karen Reczuch
- Margaret and the Moth Tree by Brit Trogen & Kari Trogen
- Matatu by Eric Walter, Eva Campbell
- The Paper House by Lois Peterson
- Who Needs a Swamp? by Karen Patkau
Silver Birch Fiction (Grades 5-6)
- Cat Found by Ingrid Lee
- The Dead Kid Detective Agency by Evan Munday
- Dragon Seer’s Gift by Janet McNaughton
- The Grave Robber’s Apprentice by Allan Stratton
- Making Bombs For Hitler by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch
- The Mighty Miss Malone by Christopher Paul Curtis
- Missing by Becky Citra
- Neil Flambé and the Crusader’s Curse by Kevin Sylvester
- Sinking Deeper Or My Heroic Decision to Invent a Sea Monster by Steve Vernon
- A Tinfoil Sky by Cyndi Sand-Eveland
Silver Birch Non-Fiction (Grades 3-6)
- 50 Underwear Questions: A Bare-All History by Tanya Lloyd Kyi, Ross Kinnaird
- Case Files: 40 Murders and Mysteries Solved by Science by Larry Verstraete
- Duped! True Stories of the World’s Best Swindlers by Andreas Schroeder, Remy Simard
- Earth-Friendly Buildings, Bridges and More: The Eco-Journal of Corry Lapont by Etta Kaner, Stephen MacEachern
- Explorers Who Made it … or died trying by Frieda Wishinsky, Bill Dickson
- No Shelter Here: Making the World a Kinder Place for Dogs by Rob Laidlaw
- Sable Island: The Wandering Sandbar by Wendy Kitts
- The Shadows that Rush Past by Rachel A. Qitsualik, Emily Fiegenschuh/ Larry MacDougall
- Shannen and the Dream for a School by Janet Wilson
- To Hope and Back: The Journey of the St. Louis by Kathy Kacer
