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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.

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Education Library Team
Contact:
Nathalie Soini x75566
Shelley Woods x76118
613-533-6000
Subjects: Education

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 2025 Forest Winners!

Blue Spruce Award Winner
Lost Stick by Anoosha Syed

Silver Birch Express Award Winner
Lost & Found: Based on a True Story by Mei Yu

Silver Birch Fiction Award Winner
The Legendary Mo Seto 01 by A. Y. Chan

Yellow Cedar Award Winner
Haunted Canada Graphic Novel 01: Four Terrifying Tales by Joel A. Sutherland

Red Maple Award Winner
40 Days in Hicksville by Christina Kilbourne

White Pine Award Winner
The Space Between Here & Now by Sarah Suk 

Le prix Peuplier 
Hugo by Catherine Braun-Grenier

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Le Cumulus Machinus by Ugo Monticone, illustrated by Orbie

Le prix Tamarac
L'homme aux araignées by Jocelyn Boisvert

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).