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2025 Forest of Reading Nominees

Congratulations to all the nominees, and hooray for all the young readers who will get to enjoy these wonderful books. Learn more at https://forestofreading.com/nominated-lists/

by Kerry Clare

Iggy Included

by (author) Deborah Kerbel

The Kodiaks

Home Ice Advantage

by (author) David A. Robertson

The Legendary Mo Seto

by (author) A.Y. Chan

Mortified

by (author) Kristy Jackson
illustrated by Rhael McGregor

Scarewaves

by (author) Trevor Henderson

The Halifax Explosion

6 December 1917 at 9:05 in the Morning

by (author) Afua Cooper
illustrated by Bender Rebecca

Haunted Canada Graphic Novel, Volume 1

Four Terrifying Tales

by (author) Joel A. Sutherland
illustrated by Hannah Barrett, David Bishop, Matt Salisbury & Jenn Woodall

Little by Little

You Can Change the World

by (author) Sonya Ballantyne
illustrated by Rhael McGregor
letterer Toben Racicot

The Longest Shot

How Larry Kwong Changed the Face of Hockey

by (author) Chad Soon & George Chiang
illustrated by Amy Qi

Owls

Who Gives a Hoot?

by (author) Frances Backhouse

Queer History A to Z

100 Years of LGBTQ+ Activism

by (author) Robin Stevenson
illustrated by Vivian Rosas

See It, Dream It, Do It

How 25 people just like you found their dream jobs

by (author) Colleen Nelson & Kathie MacIsaac

Think Like a Goat

The Wildly Smart Ways Animals Communicate, Cooperate and Innovate

by (author) Lisa Deresti Betik
illustrated by Alexander Mostov

The Trailblazing Life of Viola Desmond

A Civil Rights Icon

by (author) Rachel Kehoe
illustrated by Chelsea Charles
with Wanda Robson

40 Days in Hicksville

by (author) Christina Kilbourne

Book of Screams

by (author) Jeff Szpirglas
illustrated by Steven P. Hughes

Cricket War, The

by (author) Tho Pham & Sandra McTavish

Escape to Ponti

by (author) Brian Slattery
illustrated by Antonio Javier Caparo

Hopeless in Hope

by (author) Wanda John-Kehewin

The Outsmarters

by (author) Deborah Ellis

Tig

by (author) Heather Smith

Today I Am

10 Stories of Belonging

by (author) Jael Richardson, Marty Chan, Michael Hutchinson, Chad Lucas, Angela Misri, Mahtab Narsimhan, Danny Ramadan, Liselle Sambury & Brandon Wint
illustrated by Rosena Fung

Why We Play With Fire

by (author) Giselle Vriesen

Gorgeous Gruesome Faces

by (author) Linda Cheng

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