Forest of Reading – Teens

The Forest of Reading® is Canada’s largest recreational reading program offered in both English and French, with 270,000 readers taking part every year. This popular program offers young readers the opportunity to celebrate Canadian authors and to vote on their favourite fiction, and non-fiction books. This initiative is offered by the Ontario Library Association (OLA).

There are ten categories, each of which is associated with a grade/age range. Participants are encouraged to read the titles in their appropriate grade/age category, and vote for their favourite books.

The 2026 nominated list was released on October 15, 2025. Voting takes place in April 2026, and the OLA will announce the winners in May 2026.

You can see the full list of nominated titles here.

 

MPL will be hosting two groups of the White Pine Book Club, starting in December.

Or participate in MPL’s White Pine Challenge on Beanstack by visiting https://beinspired.beanstack.org/reader365.

To search for or borrow a nominee from MPL, click below!

White Pine®, Grades 9-12, fiction

The White Pine Award™ reading program offers teens of all ages the opportunity to read the best of Canada’s recent young adult fiction titles.
This program promotes reading for enjoyment and familiarizes teenagers with great Canadian books.

View our Catalogue Listing

White Pine Book Club

Wednesdays starting December 17, 5:00-6:00 PM, Sherwood branch (January 7, February 18, March 18, April 15)

Thursdays starting December 18, 5:00-6:00 PM, Beaty branch (January 15, February12, March 12, April 9)

As part of the White Pine Book Club, members will read and discuss 5 of the 10 nominated books for the 2026 award, and will vote in April for this year’s award winner. Members are highly encouraged to read the remaining 5 books on their own, but must read at least 5 from the list to be eligible to vote. Participants will be eligible to earn volunteer hours. For ages 13-17.
Please note there are 2 separate groups, at Sherwood on Wednesdays and at Beaty on Thursdays. Please sign up for only 1 group. The groups will be reading the same books but in different months.

White Pine Beanstack Challenge

This year MPL is expanding participation in the White Pine Book Award by offering a reading challenge through the Beanstack app. Join the White Pine 2026 Beanstack challenge, track which titles you read from the nominated list, and vote for your favourite!

The nominated list will be released on October 15, 2025, and voting takes place during the month of April 2026.  In order to be eligible to vote, readers should read at least 5 of the 10 nominated titles (though you can read them all if you want!) Please complete your voting by April 28 so it can be reported to the Forest and your votes will count towards the winner!

We will also have reporting desks at the branches where you can drop by and pick up Book Tokens for each of the nominated titles that you have read. Collect them all and put them on a keychain!

Reporting desk times:

November 4, 4:00 PM, Beaty

November 10, 4:00 PM, Main

December 3, 4:00 PM, Beaty

December 8, 4:00 PM, Sherwood