Reading List

All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven

Grey Eyes by Frank Christopher Busch

We Are All Made of Molecules by Susin Nielsen

March: Book Two by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell

Watch the Sky by Kirsten Hubbard

Neil Flambé and the Bard’s Banquet by Kevin Sylvester

All the Answers by Kate Messner

The Tapper Twins Go to War (With Each Other) by Geoff Rodkey

The Wainscott Weasel by Tor Seidler

My three best friends and me, Zulay by Cari Best

Trombone Shorty by Troy Andrews

If You Ever Want to Bring an Alligator to School, Don’t! By Elise Parsley

Outstanding in the Rain by Frank Viva

Tommy Can’t Stop! by Tim Federle

Over the Hills and Far Away by Elizabeth Hammill

Land Acknowledgment

With gratitude, mutual respect, and reciprocity, we acknowledge the ancestral home, culture, and oral teachings of the Treaty 7 signatories which includes the Siksika Nation, Piikani Nation, Kainai Nation, the Îethka Stoney Nakoda Nation, consisting of the Chiniki, Bearspaw, and Good Stoney Bands, and the people of the Tsuut’ina Nation. We also recognize the Métis people of Alberta Region 3 who call Treaty 7 their home.

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