Middle Grade Adventure: Boundless Possibilities

The useful part

Children's books can reveal the wonder of our world just as we're beginning to understand it. They show what our reality—and by extension we—might become, often without the limits imposed by that reality. Adventure books in particular encourage children to think about how they would navigate the often perilous situations that unfold in their pages.

How it works

• Each of them is a reflection of who we are, and also where we live, how we imagine, and where we are going.
• The action and danger they contain demand courage to confront, and help children develop the confidence to find their place in the world.
• Reading these stories builds empathy with characters of all shapes and sizes, both human and animal, building bridges of understanding for our future lives.
• Middle grade books are written for eight to twelve year-olds, that magical age just before adolescence when everything seems possible.
• Some of the middle grade adventure stories collected here are inspired by our natural world and the animals who call it home, by the history of our country, and by the realities and dreams of this land's...

What to take from it

They are brushstrokes in the evolving canvas of what it means to grow up in this vast, wild and beautiful co...

Details worth keeping

Others take place beyond our Canadian borders, even reaching to the stars.