Research Guides: PROF 170/171 (I/S): School & Classroom Leadership: Book Awards & CCBC

Ontario Book Awards

The Red Maple Award™ reading program offers students in Grades 7-9 an opportunity to read the best of Canada's recent young adult fiction titles. Based on student voting across the province, the most popular book is then selected and author is honoured with the Red Maple Award™.

The White Pine Awards

The White Pine Award™ reading program offers high school students an opportunity to read the best of Canada's recent young adult fiction titles. Based on student voting across the province, the most popular book is then selected and author is honoured with the White Pine Award™.

The Canadian Children's Book Centre

"The Canadian Children’s Book Centre (CCBC) is a national, not-for-profit organization founded in 1976. We are dedicated to encouraging, promoting and supporting the reading, writing, illustrating and publishing of Canadian books for young readers. Our programs, publications, and resources help teachers, librarians, booksellers and parents select the very best for young readers." - See more at: http://bookcentre.ca/about/

Social Justice and Diversity Book Bank - Provides help finding books according to theme.

Teacher's Book Bank a database of Canadian historical fiction and non-fiction books.

Best Books for Kids and Teens

Summer Reading List

The Toronto District School Board is a publisher of many documents across the curriculum which address inclusion as well as subject specific topics. Search QCAT for Toronto District School Board as publisher for a complete list.

The TDSB publishes great resources like Booklists on their website:

Challenging Homophobia and Heterosexism: A K-12 Curriculum Resource Guide:

https://canadianvalues.ca/ICV/TDSB_Equity%20_%20InclusiveCurriculum_Seepage%2010%20_.pdf

Residential Schools:

http://www.tdsb.on.ca/Portals/0/Community/docs/ResidentialSchoolsReadingList.pdf

Summer Reading List Grades 9 - 12:

http://www.iskonline.org/files/lists/Summer_Reading_List_Grades_9-12.pdf

White Pine award winners Gr.9-12

A Girl Like That by Tanaz Bhathena
Call Number: PS8603.H373 G57 2018 juv
ISBN: 9780374305444
Publication Date: 2018-02-27
Sixteen-year-old Zarin Wadia is many things: an Indian girl, a bright and vivacious student, an orphan, a troublemaker whose romantic entanglements are the subject of endless gossip among the girls in her school. "You don't want to get involved with a girl like that," they say. So how is it that Porus, a Parsi boy, has only ever had eyes for her?
36 Questions That Changed My Mind about You by Vicki Grant
Call Number: PS8613.R367 A15 2017
ISBN: 9780762463183
Publication Date: 2017-10-17
Inspired by the real psychology study popularized by the New York Times and its "Modern Love" column, this contemporary YA is perfect for fans of Eleanor and Park. Two random strangers. Two secrets. Thirty-six questions to make them fall in love. Hildy and Paul each have their own reasons for joining the university psychology study that asks the simple question: Can love be engineered?
The Agony of Bun O'Keefe by Heather Smith
Call Number: PS8637.M5623 A63 2017 juv
ISBN: 9780143198659
Publication Date: 2017-09-05
Little Miss Sunshine meets Room in this quirky, heartwarming story of friendship, loyalty and discovery. It's Newfoundland, 1986. Fourteen-year-old Bun O'Keefe has lived a solitary life in an unsafe, unsanitary house. Her mother is a compulsive hoarder, and Bun has had little contact with the outside world. Bun and her mother rarely talk, so when Bun's mother tells Bun to leave one day, she does. Hitchhiking out of town, Bun ends up on the streets of St. John's, Newfoundland. takes her in. Bun learns that the world extends beyond the walls of her mother's house and discovers the joy of being part of a new family -- a family of friends who care.
The fashion committee : a novel of art, crime, and applied design by Susan Juby.
Call Number: PS8569.U38 F37 2017 juv
ISBN: 9780670067602
Publication Date: 2017
Charlie Dean and John Thomas-Smith are really different, but they share one thing in common: both are gunning for a scholarship to the private art high school that could make all their dreams come true. And whoever wins the fashion competition will win the scholarship.
The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline
Call Number: PS8607.I53 M37 2017 juv
ISBN: 9781770864863
Publication Date: 2017-09-01
In a futuristic world ravaged by global warming, people have lost the ability to dream, and the dreamlessness has led to widespread madness. The only people still able to dream are North America's Indigenous people, and it is their marrow that holds the cure for the rest of the world. But getting the marrow, and dreams, means death for the unwilling donors. Driven to flight, a fifteen-year-old and his companions struggle for survival, attempt to reunite with loved ones and take refuge from the "recruiters" who seek them out to bring them to the marrow-stealing "factories."
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
Call Number: PS3604.O27 L58t 2008 juv
ISBN: 9780765319852
Publication Date: 2008
Marcus, a.k.a "w1n5t0n," is only seventeen years old, but he figures he already knows how the system works–and how to work the system. Smart, fast, and wise to the ways of the networked world, he has no trouble outwitting his high school's intrusive but clumsy surveillance systems. But his whole world changes when he and his friends find themselves caught in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco.
Calvin by Martine Leavitt.
Call Number: PS8573.E128 C34 2016 juv
ISBN: 9781554987207
Publication Date: 2016.
Seventeen-year-old Calvin, who was born on the day that the last Calvin and Hobbes comic strip was published, is stricken by a schizophrenic episode and begins having conversations with the tiger, Hobbes. Struggling to regain control of his mind and destiny, Calvin becomes convinced that he'll get better if the strip's creator, Bill Watterson, will draw just one more comic.
Shattered by Eric Walters, with a foreword by by Roméo Dallaire.
Call Number: PS8595.A688 S52 2006 juv
ISBN: 9780670063666
Publication Date: 2006
In this gripping tale, fifteen-year-old Ian learns not only about Rwanda but about the world, and he is not at all prepared. But what will he do with his new-found knowledge? Can he help Jacques, a man who has lost everything but his nightmarish memories?
Mostly Happy by Pam Bustin
Call Number: PS8603.U828 M67 2008 juv
ISBN: 9781897235393
Publication Date: 2008
Prissy Fallwell smoked Players Plain, played crib for money and drank Wild Turkey when she was between men. Prissy had a lot of boyfriends when I was growing up. I had a lot of crushes - Jack Lord from Hawaii Five-O, Hawkeye Pierce, Jerome the Giraffe and Jesus. Well, GOD actually. It was an on again off again sort of affair. This is our story _ So begins Bean E. Fallwell's life story in Mostly Happy.
Dan vs. Nature by Don Calame
Call Number: PS8605.A436 D36 2016 juv
ISBN: 9780763670719
Publication Date: 2016-04-12
From screenwriter Don Calame comes another outrageously funny and raunchy tale of teen boys whose plans go awry — this time, on a survivalist camping trip. Shy and scrawny Dan Weekes spends his time creating graphic novels inspired by his dream girl and looking out for his mom as she dates every man in the state of California. Then his mom drops a bomb: she and her latest beau, Hank, are engaged, and she’s sending her "two favorite men" on a survivalist camping trip to "bond."
Live to Tell by Lisa Harrington
Call Number: PS8615.A7473 L58 2012 juv
ISBN: 9781770862173
Publication Date: 2012
It's a night she'll never remember. When LibbyThorne wakes up in the hospital, they tell her she was in a car accident. They tell her it was her fault, and that an innocent victimis clinging to life.And they tell her that criminal charges are going to be brought against her. The problemis, Libby can remember none of it. She can't remember the accident, the party, the drinking . She can't even remember the guy who keeps sending her flowers and acts like he's her boyfriend. With the help of her best friend, Kasey, Libby pieces together the events of the evening that landed her in the hospital. As memories start trickling through, she begins to realize that something is not right, and that what she's been told about that nightmay not be what happened at all.
Exit, Pursued by a Bear by E. K. Johnston
Call Number: PS8619.O4565 E85 2016 juv
ISBN: 9781101994580
Publication Date: 2016-03-15
Veronica Mars meets William Shakespeare in E.K. Johnston's latest brave and unforgettable heroine. Hermione Winters is captain of her cheerleading team, and in tiny Palermo Heights, this doesn't mean what you think it means. At PHHS, the cheerleaders don't cheer for the sports teams; they are the sports team--the pride and joy of a tiny town. The team's summer training camp is Hermione's last and marks the beginning of the end of...she's not sure what. She does know this season could make her a legend.
Fifteen Lanes by S. J. Laidlaw
Call Number: PS8623.A394 F54 2016 juv
ISBN: 9781101917800
Publication Date: 2016-04-05
Noor has lived all of her fourteen years in the fifteen lanes of Mumbai's red light district. Born into a brothel, she is destined for the same fate as her mother: a desperate life trapped in the city's sex trade. She must act soon to have any chance of escaping this grim future. Across the sprawling city, fifteen-year-old Grace enjoys a life of privilege. Her father, the CEO of one of India's largest international banks, has brought his family to Mumbai where they live in unparalleled luxury. But Grace's seemingly perfect life is shattered when she becomes a victim of a cruel online attack.
Rush by Eve Silver
Call Number: Children's & Young Adult Books youth PS8637.I347 R874 2014
ISBN: 9780062192141
Publication Date: 2014
Rush pulls you headlong into the thrilling, high-stakes world of Eve Silver's teen series The Game, about teens pulled in and out of an alternate reality where battling aliens is more than a game—it's life and death.