Reviews here are divided only by recommended reading level and have been placed in the lowest level that would appreciate the material. According to the Ontario curriculum, there are 4 groups: primary (kindergarten to grade 3; ages 3 – 9), junior (grades 4 to 6; ages 9-12), intermediate (grades 7 to 10; ages 12-15), senior (grades 11 and 12; ages 16-18). I’m including an adult category because the themes and subject matter in the book would be best left to a venue outside of a school library.
Primary
- In the Snow: Who’s Been Here? by Lindsay Barrett George
- Augustine by Melanie Watt
- You’re Finally Here! by Melanie Watt
- The Farm Team by Linda Bailey
- Jeffrey and Sloth by Kari-Lynn Winters and Ben Hodson
- Just a Second: A different way to look at time by Steve Jenkins
- Children’s Transportation Encylopedia
- Chickadee Magazine
- Bats: Furry fliers of the night (ebook)
- Owly by Andy Runton
Junior
- The World Almanac for Kids 2013 (World Almanac Books)
- The Adventures of Medical Man by Dr. Michael Evans and David Wichman
- Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane by Suzanne Collins
- The Witch’s Boy by Michael Gruber (audiobook)
- The Arrival by Shaun Tan
Intermediate
- The Gathering by Kelley Armstrong
- The Calling by Kelley Armstrong
- Changeling by Philippa Gregory
- Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith by Deborah Heiligman
- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
- From Then to Now: A Short History of the World by Christopher Moore
- Nice Recovery by Susan Juby
- The Rock and the River by Kekla Magoon
- Bossypants by Tina Fey
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
- Under Heaven by Guy Gavriel Kay
- Beauty Queens by Libba Bray
- Story of a Girl by Sara Zarr
- Their eyes were watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
- Dark Inside by Jeyn Roberts
- The Cat’s Table by Michael Ondaatje
- Pyongyang: A journey in North Korea by Guy Delisle
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
- Darkest Light by Hiromi Goto
- Under My Skin by Charles de Lint
- Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
- Eragon by Christopher Paolini
- The Taming by Eric Walters and Teresa Toten
- City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
- Anya’s Ghost by Vera Brosgol
- DC: The New Frontier by Darwyn Cooke
- Skim by Mariko and Jillian Tamaki
- Seraphina by Rachel Hartman
- The Bear by Claire Cameron
- Cinder by Marissa Meyer
- The Silent Summer of Kyle McGinley by Jan Andrews
- A Game for Swallows by Zeina Abirached
- I Remember Beirut by Zeina Abirached
- Shadow Scale by Rachel Hartman
- A Spy in the House (The Agency #1) by Y.S. Lee
- The Art of Getting Stared At by Laura Langston
- Delusion Road by Don Aker
- Trillium by Jeff Lemire
- The Daughter of Smoke & Bone Trilogy by Laini Taylor
Senior
- Life by Keith Richards
- The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling
- Triptych by J.M. Frey
- The Book of Human Skin by Michelle Lovric
- Kiss of the Fur Queen by Tomson Highway
- The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb
- The Lady of the Rivers by Philippa Gregory
- American Gods by Neil Gaiman
- A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin
- The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
- Through Black Spruce by Joseph Boyden
- The Painted Girls by Cathy Marie Buchanan
- This Changes Everything by Naomi Klein
- We Are Water by Wally Lamb
- The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
- Medicine Walk by Richard Wagamese
Adult
- Misconceptions by Naomi Wolf
- The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence
- Saga by Brian Vaughan and Fiona Staples
Professional Development
- Comprehension & Collaboration: Inquiry Circles in Action by Stephanie Harvey and Harvey Daniels
- Becoming a Great High School by Tim Westerberg
- The Third Teacher by OWP/P Architect
- Grown Up Digital: How the net generation is changing your world by Don Tapscott
- Design Space for Children and Teens in Libraries and Public Places by Sandra Feinberg
- Research methods & methodologies in education by Larry Hedges
- Literacy is Not Enough by Lee Crockett, Ian Jukes, and Andrew Churches
- The Shallows by Nicholas Carr
