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100 young adult books that make you proud to be Canadian

CBC Books | CBC | Posted: July 10, 2017 2:53 PM | Last Updated: December 4, 2017

Canada has a wealth of writers telling today's tales, revisiting our past and imagining our future. Literary or mystery, comic or graphic, historical or out of this world, here are 100 young adult books that will make you proud to be Canadian.

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1. 40 Things I Want to Tell You by Alice Kuipers
2. A Spy in the House by Y.S. Lee
3. A Thousand Shades of Blue by Robin Stevenson

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4. Adam and Eve and Pinch-Me by Julie Johnston
​5. Airborn by Kenneth Oppel
6. Alice, I Think by Susan Juby

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7. Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
8. Arctic Thunder by Robert Feagan
9. Ashes, Ashes by Jo Treggiari

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10. At Risk by Jacqueline Guest
11. Audacious by Gabrielle Prendergrast
12. Awake and Dreaming by Kit Pearson

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13. Bad Boy by Diana Wieler
14. Baygirl by Heather T. Smith
15. Between Sisters by Adwoa Badoe

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​16. Chanda's Secrets by Allan Stratton
17. Chasing Freedom by Gloria Ann Wesley
18. Child of Dandelions by Shenaaz Nanji

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19. Darkest Light by Hiromi Goto
20. The Ehrich Weisz Chronicles: Demon Gate by Marty Chan
21. Dust by Arthur Slade

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22. Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis
23. Escape to Gold Mountain by David HT Wong
24. Eye of the Crow by Shane Peacock

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25. Fishtailing by Wendy Phillips
26. From Anna by Jean Little
27. Gemini Summer by Iain Lawrence

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28. God Loves Hair by Vivek Shraya
29. Good for Nothing by Michel Noel
30. Graffiti Knight by Karen Bass
31. Greener Grass by Caroline Pignat

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​32. Hana's Suitcase by Karen Levine
33. Harriet's Daughter by M. NourbeSe Philip
34. Held by Edeet Ravel

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35. Him Standing by Richard Wagamese
36. Hold Fast by Kevin Major
37. Hunger Journeys by Maggie DeVries

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38. I Am Algonquin by Rick Revell
39. In Search of April Raintree by Beatrice Culleton Mosionier
40. Innercity Girl Like Me by Sabrina Bernardo

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41. Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
42. Lost in the Barrens by Farley Mowat
43. Money Boy by Paul Yee

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44. Murder on the Canadian by Eric Wilson
45. My Book of Life by Angel by Martine Leavitt
46. Night Runner by Max Turner

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47. Nix Minus One by Jill MacLean
48. Nobody Cries at Bingo by Dawn Dumont
49. Not Suitable for Family Viewing by Vicki Grant

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50. Obasan by Joy Kogawa
51. Odd Man Out by Sarah Ellis
52. One in Every Crowd by Ivan E. Coyote

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53. Pirate's Passage by William Gilkerson
54. Plain Kate by Erin Bow
55. Prairie Ostrich by Tamai Kobayashi

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56. Run by Eric Walters
57. Shadow in Hawthorn Bay by Janet Lunn
58. Shadows Cast by Stars by Catherine Knutsson

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59. Shine, Coconut Moon by Neesha Meminger
60. Skim by Mariko & Jillian Tamaki
​61. Skraelings by Rachel and Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley

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62. Slash by Jeannette Armstrong
63. Stitches by Glen Huser
64. Stones for My Father by Trilby Kent

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65. Sugar Falls by David Alexander Robertson
66. Susceptible by Geneviève Castrée
67. Swimming in the Monsoon Sea by Shyam Selvadurai

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68. The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis
69. The Crazy Man by Pamela Porter
70. The Dream Carvers by Joan Clark

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71. The Girls They Left Behind by Bernice Thurman Hunter
72. The Gravesavers by Sheree Fitch
73. The Hangman in the Mirror by Kate Cayley
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74.The Keeper of the Isis Light by Monica Hughes
75. The Landing by John Ibbitson
76. The Lynching of Louie Sam by Elizabeth Stewart

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77. The Maestro by Tim Wynne-Jones
78. The Night Wanderer by Drew Hayden Taylor
79. The Painted Boy by Charles de Lint

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80. The Prince of Neither Here Nor There by Seán Cullen
81. The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen by Susin Nielsen
82. The Silent Summer of Kyle McGinley by Jan Andrews

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83. The Summoning by Kelley Armstrong
84. The Tiffin by Mahtab Narsimhan
85. The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B by Teresa Toten

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86. The Wondrous Woo by Carrianne K.Y. Leung
87. This Can't be Happening at Macdonald Hall by Gordon Korman
88. Throwaway Daughter by Ting-Xing Te

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89. Thunder Over Kandahar by Sharon C. McKay
90. Tilt by Alan Cumyn
91. To Dance at the Palais Royale by Janet McNaughton

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92. True Confessions of a Heartless Girl by Martha Brooks
93. Underground to Canada by Barbara Smucker
94. Wanting Mor by Rukhsana Khan

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95. What World Is Left by Monique Polak
96. When Everything Feels Like the Movies by Raziel Reid
97. Who Has Seen the Wind by W.O. Mitchell

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98. Wild Orchid by Beverley Brenna
99. Will's Garden by Lee Maracle
100. Wondrous Strange by Lesley Livingston

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