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2022 Yellow Cedar Award Nominees

Part of the Ontario Library Association's Forest of Reading Program, this list includes Grades 5-8, non-fiction

by Kerry Clare

111 Trees

How One Village Celebrates the Birth of Every Girl

by (author) Rina Singh
illustrated by Marianne Ferrer

Chasing Bats and Tracking Rats

Urban Ecology, Community Science, and How We Share Our Cities

by (author) Cylita Guy
illustrated by Cornelia Li

Finding Home

The Journey of Immigrants and Refugees

by (author) Jen Sookfong Lee
illustrated by Drew Shannon

In the Dark

The Science of What Happens at Night

by (author) Lisa Deresti Betik
illustrated by Josh Holinaty

International Day of the Girl, The

Celebrating Girls Around the World

by (author) Jessica Dee Humphreys & Rona Ambrose
illustrated by Simone Shin

It Takes Guts

How Your Body Turns Food Into Fuel (and Poop)

by (author) Jennifer Gardy
illustrated by Belle Wuthrich

Mad for Ads

How Advertising Gets (and Stays) in Our Heads

by (author) Erica Fyvie
illustrated by Ian Turner

The Power of Style

How Fashion and Beauty Are Being Used to Reclaim Cultures

by (author) Christian Allaire

This Is Your Brain on Stereotypes

How Science Is Tackling Unconscious Bias

by (author) Tanya Lloyd Kyi
illustrated by Drew Shannon

Wild Outside

Around the World with Survivorman

by (author) Les Stroud
illustrated by Andrew P. Barr
photographs by Laura Bombier