CONTEMPORARY REALISM (Ages 15+) The Pale Indian: A Novel by R. A. Alexie (2005) Childhood by A. Alexis (1998) The Cure for Death by Lightning by G. Anderson-Dargatz (1996) Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? by A. R. Badami (2006) Midnight at the Dragon Cafe by J. F. Bates (2004) Travelling on into the Light by M. Brooks (1994) The Education of Little Tree by F. Carter (1976) The Concubine’s Children by D. Chong (1994) All that Matters by W. Choy (2004) The Jade Peony by W. Choy (1995) In Search of April Raintree by B. Culleton (1992) Sweetness in the Belly by C. Gibb (2005) Before Wings by B. Goobie (2000) DreadfulWater Shows Up by H. GoodWeather (2003) Chorus of Mushrooms by H. Goto (1994) The Lit Report by S. Harvey (2008) The Kiss of the Fur Queen by T. Highway (1998) The Salt Roads by N. Hopkinson (2003) Another Kind of Cowboy by S. Juby (2007) Green Grass, Running Water by T. King (1993) One Good Story, That One: Stories by T. King (1993) Obasan by J. Kogawa (1981) Disappearing Moon Cafe by S. Lee (1990) Gravity by L. Lieberman (2008) Fall on Your Knees by A.M. MacDonald (1996) The Girl with a Baby by S. Olsen (2003) White Girl by S. Olsen (2004) In the Skin of a Lion by M. Ondaatje (1987) Running in the Family by M. Ondaatje (1982) The English Patient by M. Ondaatje (1992) Sajo and the Beaver People by G. Owl (1935) Monkey Beach by E. Robinson (2000) No Crystal Stair by M. Sarsfield (1997) Swimming in the Monsoon Sea by S. Selvadurai (2005) Fearless Warrior by D. H. Taylor (1998) Funny You Don’t Look Like One: Furious Observations of a Blue-Eyed Ojibway by D. H. Taylor (2002) Bad Boy by D. Wieler (1989) Annabel by K. Winter (2010) The Uninvited by T. Wynn-Jones (2009) What Happened This Summer by P. Yee (2006)
HISTORIAL FICTION (Ages 15+) Children of the Day by S. Birdsell (2005) Russlaender by S. Birdsell (2001) Paper Shadows by W. Choy (1999) Vancouver by Cruise & Griffiths (2003) Juvie: Inside Canada’s Youth Jails by G. Cruse (2007) The Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada by B. Drew (2000) The Wars by T. Findley (1977) I’ve Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad by K. Frost (2007) The Book of Negroes by L. Hill (2007) Broken Ground by J. Hodgins (1999) The Lost Garden by H. Humphreys (2004) Deafening by F. Itani (2003) The Way the Crow Flies by A. MacDonald (2003) Consumption by K. Patterson (2006) Your Mouth is Lovely by N. Richler (2002) Isobel Gunn by A. Thomas (1999) A Discovery of Strangers by R. Wiebe (1994)
THE EXPANDED EYE (Ages 15+) I Was A Child of Holocaust Survivors by B. Eisenstein (2006) Essex County by J. Lemire (2010) Bitter Medicine by C. & O. Martini (2010) Who Has Seen the Wind? by W. O. Mitchell (1976) Skim by M. Tamaki (2008) Red: A Haida Manga by M. Yahgulanaas (2009)
SPECULATIVE FICTION (Ages 15+) Oryx and Crake by M. Atwood (2003) The Handmaid’s Tale by M. Atwood (1985) Promises to Keep by C. de Lint (2007) Big Big Sky by K. Dunnion (2008) Half World by H. Goto (2009) Waking by A. Harvey-Fitzhenry (2006) Brown Girl in the Ring by N. Hopkinson (1998) The Lions of Al-Rassan by G. G. Kay (1995) Ysabel by G. G. Kay (2006) Ketura and Lord Death by M. Leavitt (2006) The Gryphon Project by C. Mac (2009) Bonechiller by G. McNamee (2008) Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet by A. Proulx (2007) Golden Compass by P. Pullman (1995) What Z Sees by K. Rivers (2008) X in Flight by K. Rivers (2007) Y in the Shadows by K. Rivers (2008) A Complicated Kindness by M. Toews (2004) The Flying Troutmans by M. Toews (2008)
AND MORE...(Ages 15+) A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by I. Beah (2007) The Blue Helmet by W. Bell (2006) Lilac Moon: Dreaming of the Real West by S. Butala (2005) Golden Girl and Other Stories by G. Chan (2005) Wrong Time, Wrong Place by L. Choyce (1991) The 25 Pains of Kennedy Baines by D. Crane (2006) My Turquoise Years by M. Farrant (2004) Not Wanted on the Voyage by T. Findley (1984) The Book of Living and Dying by N. Ghent (2005) The Dream Where Losers Go by B. Goobie (1999) Sweetgrass by J. Hudson (1984) The Song of Kahunsha by A. Irani (2006) In Spite of Killer Bees by J. Johnston (2001) House of Sugar by R. Kraatz Running the Bases by P. Kropp (2005) Rush Home Road by L. Lansens (2002) Tom Finder by M. Leavitt (2003) The End of East by J. Lee (2007) Sky Kickers by S. Leedahl (1994) Inexcusable by C. Lynch (2005) Beyond the Blue by A. MacPherson (200) Hold Fast by K. Major (1978/2003) Life of Pi by Y. Martel (2002) The Freak Trilogy by C. Matas (2007) The Long Exile: A True Story of Deception and survival of the Inuit in the Canadian Arctic by M. McGrath (2006) Feeding at Nine by R. McIntyre (2006) The Crying Jesus by R. McIntyre (1997) Acceleration by G. McNamee (2003) Rough Magic by J. McNaughton (2009) Scott Pilgrim by B. O’Malley (2004) The Healing Time of Hickeys by K. Rivers (2003) The Quirky Girl’s Guide to Roadtrips and Reststops by K. Rivers (2006) Tribes by A. Slade (2002) Becoming Ruby by K. Stinson (2003) Hear Me Out by T.E.A.C.H. (2004) More Than You Can Chew by M. Tokio (2003) The Game by T. Toten (2001) Street Pharm by A. Van Diepen (2006) The Candy Darlings by C. Walde (2007) Friendship by B. Wilson (2006)