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Forest of Reading®, K to 6 Programs

Sponsored annually by the Ontario Library Association, the Red Maple Award reading program is geared to readers in Grade 7 and 8. Ten novels are nominated each year and ten non-fiction are selected every second year.

PJ Education Librarian

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Brenda Reed
Contact:
brenda.reed@queensu.ca
613-533-6000 x 77644

The Queen's Education Library supports Ontario's Forest of Reading® by purchasing all K-12 nominated titles each year and supporting classes that read Forest books and prepare Forest classroom activities.

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Congratulations to the 2024 Forest Winners!

Blue Spruce Award Winner
Benny the Bananasaurus Rex by Sarabeth Holden & Emma Pedersen

Silver Birch Express Award Winner
Rock? Plant? Animal? How Nature Keeps Us Guessing by Etta Kaner & Brittany Lane

Silver Birch Fiction Award Winner
Apartment 713 by Kevin Sylvester

Yellow Cedar Award Winner
Animal Eyes: How Creature See and How Their Eyes Have Adapted to Their World by Françoise Vulpé

Red Maple Award Winner
The Fort by Gordon Korman

White Pine Award Winner
Pieces of Me by Kate McLaughlin

Le prix Peuplier 
L'oiseau rouge by Élodie Duhameau

Le prix Mélèze
La chambre numéro by Matrine Latulippe, Isabelle Malenfant

Le prix Tamarac
As-tu peur du loup? by Véronique Drouin, Lucille Danis Drouot

Queen's Researchers Focus on the Forest

McConnel, J., & de Leon, C. (2020). The brightest part of the Forest: A grit analysis of an Ontario children’s book awardLanguage & Literacy 22(2).