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Welcome to Top Grade: CanLit for the Classroom, a blog and preview video series that features new releases from Canadian book publishers ideal for use in K-12 classrooms and school library collections. Throughout the year, we dive into new titles, highlighting relevant curriculum links and themes.

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Written by secondary school teacher Spencer Miller

Summertime is here! Instead of resting and relaxing, you’re fielding emails from parents looking for advice on how to keep their kids reading this summer.

I’ve got you covered with some advice for parents and six brand new book recommendations. Now go relax!

1. Let them choose

To help share a love of reading, encourage choice. Allow young readers their independence and encourage them to explore and be curious. If they’ve already found something they like, stick with it! Do they want to read nothing but graphic novels? Great! Reread their favourite fantasy series for the twelfth time? Fantastic! All reading is good reading.

Reading should never feel like an assignment. Students may be experiencing frustra …