Entering high school can bring about nerves, excitement and growing pains. What better way to get ready for the next big chapter of your life than with a great book?
Jillian Tamaki won the Governor General's Literary Award for young people's literature (illustrated books) for This One Summer. (House of Anansi Press/Tundra Books/Arsenal Pulp Press)
What World Is Left by Monique Polak won the 2009 Quebec Writers’ Federation Award for Children’s and Young Adult Literature. (Theytus Books/Drawn & Quarterly/Orca Books)
An animated film adaptation of The Breadwinner, co-produced by Angelina Jolie, is slated for release in 2017. (Penguin Canada/Groundwood Books/Groundwood Books.)
Obasan won the Books in Canada First Novel Award (now known as the Amazon.ca First Novel Award) in 1982. (Thistledown Press/Penguin Canada/Scholastic Canada)
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