Made the Grade – October 2017

Across the Universe
Seventeen-year-old Amy and her parents are frozen cargo aboard the spaceshi…
All My Puny Sorrows
This engaging, award-winning Canadian novel, suitable for grade 12 students…
Alvin Ho: Allergic to Girls, School, and Other Scary Things
Second-grader Alvin Ho is a highly imaginative – but anxious – boy. Alvin …
Brain Jack
This intriguing and suspenseful novel follows Sam and a group of hackers wh…
Cinder: The Lunar Chronicles
This futuristic novel—a dystopian twist on the Cinderella tale—finds the pa…
Clementine
Eight-year-old Clementine is having a disastrous week – at school she is a …
Click Here to Start
When Ted, an escape-the-room video game expert, is the beneficiary of his g…
Code of Honor
Kamran, an American-Persian, is the all-American boy at school, but that al…
Everything I Never Told You
This novel about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio …
Follow the Moon Home
This picture book tells the story of Vivienne, who has moved to a new town,…
Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock
As Leonard’s 18th birthday goes unnoticed by the world, he spends the day g…
Ghost Boy
Martin was a happy, healthy boy until age 12 when a mysterious illness left…
Ice Boy
Ice Boy does not want to live a normal life as an ice cube in the freezer, …
It’s Our Prom (So Deal With It)
A group of high school seniors is allowed to reinvent prom to be more inclu…
King of the Screwups
When popular, athletic high school senior Liam is thrown out by his abusive…
Lawn Boy
Lawn Boy receives a riding lawn mower for his 12th birthday and mows lawns …
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Greg Gaines, a high school senior, spends his life trying to blend in, whil…
One Dog and His Boy
Hal’s affluent, materialistic parents buy him everything except what he rea…
One Crazy Summer
In 1968, three young girls are sent to visit their estranged mother in Cali…
Pictures of Hollis Woods
Hollis, abandoned as an infant, has experienced several foster homes and lo…
Posted
When Branton Middle School bans cell phones, students begin communicating w…
Save Me A Seat
Ravi, a recent emigrant from India, and Joe, an American struggling with Au…
Seeds
Seeds is a Canadian play, based on interviews, court transcripts, scientifi…
Shame
When sixteen year old Jas is told she must marry a man in India she has nev…
Son of a Trickster
Jared, a sixteen year old boy, is struggling to figure out who he is in the…
Stella by Starlight
This award-winning book is a compelling and realistic tale of an African-Am…
Art of Racing in the Rain, The
Enzo, the family dog, learned from TV that dogs are reincarnated as humans …
Break, The
Stella, a young Métis woman, spots someone in trouble on a barren field out…
Headmaster’s Wager, The
This historical novel, set in Saigon during the Vietnam War, tells of Perci…
Illegal, The
This award-winning Canadian novel centers on a young runner from fictional …
Lions of Little Rock, The
Quiet and shy Marlee feels like her world is falling apart and that startin…
Lotterys Plus One, The
The Lotterys are a family of seven children, a lesbian couple, and a gay co…
Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly, The
Minnow Bly has just survived a fire that destroyed the polygamist religious…
Truth Commission, The
Normandy and her friends decide that secrets are better shared than kept an…
Tiger Boy
Neel, a young boy living in poverty in India, struggles with family/communi…
Treaty Tales: We Are All Treaty People
In this final instalment of the Treaty Tales, Kookoo (grandmother) explains…
Treaty Tales: The Friendship
In this second instalment of Treaty Tales, Kookoo (Grandmother) explains th…
Treaty Tales: The Handshake and The Pipe
The first book in the Treaty Tales trilogy, Neepin, a young First Nations g…
Walking Home
Muchoki has lost his father to ethnic and political violence in their homet…
We Were Liars
The wealthy, seemingly perfect Sinclair family spends every summer on their…
Where’d You Go, Bernadette
Bee’s parents promise her a trip if she gets perfect grades, so when she su…
X: A Novel
Malcolm’s parents tell him that he can achieve anything, but he believes th…
Wolf Hollow
Twelve-year-old Annabelle lives in an American farming community in the 194…
Raven Tales
This highly engaging, award-winning series of 26 videos is suitable for stu…
Les légendes du corbeau
Cette ressource humoristique s’adresse plus particulièrement aux élèves du …