Writing and content creation: Table de concertation des bibliothécaires scolaires et publics de l’île de Montréal Production: Réseau réussite Montréal - 2019

Elementary Cycle ThreeIdeas for reading and discovery

Explore space in Kenneth Oppel’s Airborn series.

Discover cute and strange creatures in the Olga novels by Elise Gravel. Can you draw your own?

In Tom Angleberger’s Origami Yoda series, Dwight’s origami creation offers

sage advice to all the students at school. Do you believe in his power?

In Scott Westerfeld’s alternate history of World War I, Leviathan, flying whales serve as battle ships. Go on Wikipedia to learn

more about the subject of your last book.

Read about Ainslu, a mongolian girl who goes against tradition to become an eagle hunter in Erin Bow’s novel Stand on the Sky.

Run out of books to read? Listen to the

Book Club for Kids podcast. bookclubforkids.org

Cook a meal with a parent like Tsumugi in Gido Amagakure’s manga Sweetness & Lightning. Every chapter includes recipes.

Black Clover by Yuki Tabata is the perfect fantastical adventure for fans of Naruto and One Piece.

Follow the funny culinary adventures of Neil Flambé in Kevin Sylvester’s series.

more manga?

In the Witch Boy series by Molly Ostertag, Aster really wants to learn magic even though he’s a boy, but the consequences could be dire.

Realistic stories

funny stories

steam punk Fantasy

comics

adventure

breaking traditions

Illustrated novels

Go to space

Writing and content creation: Table de concertation des bibliothécaires scolaires et publics de l’île de Montréal Production: Réseau réussite Montréal - 2019

Elementary Cycle ThreeIdeas for reading and discovery

Read one of Alex Gino’s touching, honest novels to learn more about kids who experience the world differently than you do.

The Secret Path by Gord Downie and Jeff Lemire tells the sad story of a 12-year-old Indigenous boy who ran away from residential school.

Find an article that interests you in OWL magazine.

Tell a friend what you’ve learned.

Prolific Montreal-born writer Gordan Korman has several

exciting survival stories including Everest,

Island and Kidnapped.

Deaf culture

Cece Bell had a super power as a kid: a hearing aid that allowed her to overhear everything the teachers said. Read about it in her comic El Deafo.

Lumberjanes is a comic by Noelle Stevenson that follows the adventures of

five friends at a magical summer camp.

Diana Wynne Jones was writing about wizards

and magic schools before Hogwarts ever existed.

Discover one of her funny, magical tales. 

Kate DiCamillo’s Flora and Ulysses combines text, comics and a flying, super-strong squirrel.

Brian Selznick’s novels alternate between pages of text and images

to simulate the experience of watching a film. They may look

big, but the unusual format makes for a quick read.

Multimedia books

Fantasy stories

Understanding others

share what you read

comics

Bring the worlds of Harry Potter to life with J.K. Rowling’s

fantastical non-fiction titles. Using a branch,

imagine how magic would help you with

everyday tasks. Lumos. Accio. Obliviate.

Wizards and

witches

fantastic beasts

text &Images

Survival stories