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By Tracey West, Illustrated By Graham Howells
Bestseller
Pick a book. Grow a reader. This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line called Branches, which is aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these b...
Bestseller
Making friends isn't easy, but losing them is even harder!Natalie has never felt that she's enough -- athletic enough, stylish enough, or talented enough. And on the first day of middle school, Natalie discovers that things are worse than she thought -- now she's not even...
Bestseller
Naomi, Melvin, Pedro, and Poppy are just a few of the twenty-one rambunctious, funny, and talented baby frogs who share their stories in the Cat Kid Comic Club. Can Li'l Petey, Molly, and Flippy help the students express themselves through comics? The adventures in class and o...
By Elizabeth MacLeod, Illustrated By Mike Deas
PD Physical Disability
Bestseller
The award-winning Scholastic Canada Biography series highlights the lives of remarkable Canadians, whose achievements and legacies have inspired and changed the lives of those that followed them.In Meet Terry Fox, the legendary story of how Terry Fox came to ru...
IE Immigrant Experiences RR Religion and Religious Identity
Bestseller
A New York Times bestseller! JOSEF is a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany. With the threat of concentration camps looming, he and his family board a ship bound for the other side of the world... ISABEL is a Cuban ...

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By Elizabeth MacLeod, Illustrated By Mike Deas
SJ Social Justice RP Read with Pride
Winner, Sharon Fitzhenry Award for Canadian Children's Non-Fiction 2025
Jim was born in 1921, and he had an ordinary childhood. But as he grew up, he knew he was a little different than his friends. As a young man, Jim joined the war effort and travelled the world. He discovered there were other people like himself — he was gay. Jim hadn’t eve...
Winner, Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Award 2025
Goodbye, old life... Lia and her family are waiting to board a flight across the Atlantic, leaving behind family, friends, and Romania -- the only home Lia has ever known. But Lia's heartache is overshadowed by the discomfort of her first period. As if th...
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By Kelly Yang, Illustrated By Fumio Obata
Mia Tang has a lot of secrets. Number 1: She lives in a motel, not a big house. Every day, while her immigrant parents clean the rooms, ten-year-old Mia manages the front desk of the Calivista Motel and tends to its guests. Number 2:...
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RP Read with Pride MH Mental Health
Everyone in school knows Nick and Charlie. Everyone knows they’re going to be together forever. But Charlie’s busy with his bid to become Head Boy. And while Nick is preparing to leave for college, he’s starting to wonder who he’ll be… without Charlie.Cont...
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By Suzanne Collins, Illustrated By Nico Delort
PD Physical Disability MH Mental Health
"My name is Katniss Everdeen. Why am I not dead? I should be dead."Katniss Everdeen, girl on fire, has survived, even though her home has been destroyed. There are rebels. There are new leaders. A revolution is unfolding.District 13 has come out of...
Four more spine-tingling stories from award-winning author Joel A. Sutherland have been adapted into chilling graphic novellas. In this third collection, horror lovers will read about:A swamp with a terrifying resident . . .An...
After the explosive events at the Unity Concert, Yuna and the other members of her K-Pop band, MoonGlow, must reckon with the return of a sinister evil force. Can Yuna get to the bottom of her encounter after the concert or will evil triumph once and for all?