Book Recommendations & Learning Resources

Chapters4Change 2026 Theme:  Growth & Reconciliation We are excited to share that the Chapters4Change theme for 2026 will be Growth & Reconciliation . With only approximately 13 Calls to Action considered complete, and only two of those having been completed in the past five years , the need for all Canadians to act on reconciliation remains urgent! Chapters4Change is specifically committed to Education for Reconciliation . As one way of living this commitment in the coming

We are calling all educators to partake on a transformative journey of learning and re-storying our education systems using author, speaker, educator, and faculty at UBC Teacher Education Carolyn Roberts ' invaluable book entitled Re-Storying Education: Decolonizing Your Practice Using a Critical Lens . Roberts defines Re-Storying Education is a process of dismantling old narratives taught in education and rebuilding new narratives that include all the voices that have create

Photograph Credit: Karen Rose Photography We are excited to introduce our very own Chapters4Change Co-Founder, Jenn Sheila’s (she/they) debut book Full Bloom: A Coming Out Journey through Poems & Letters. Full Bloom was released in June 2025 on Amazon. This deeply personal collection explores her coming out journey through poetry, letters, and song lyrics, all woven together through themes of identity, fear, liberation, and self-love. Jenn hopes the book will empower others i

In honour of World Day for Prevention of and Healing from Child Sexual Exploitation, Abuse, and Violence on November 18, and Human Rights Day on December 10th, we would like to highlight some of our past book recommendations for you to consider further.

Our #1 Rated Literature Circle With back to school on September 5, 2023 in Ontario, Canada, and World Teachers' Day on October 5, 2023, we are honouring all of the educators who have participated in, or are currently participating in, our 'Savvy Ally' Literature Circles. Your commitment to furthering your education and acting to create more equitable schools is an inspiration to all. We thank you for being the change! 100% of the royalties from the first year of sales of the

For June 2023, we are featuring four amazing 2SLGBTQI+ centred books for you to read at your leisure this pride month: 1) Disabilities Studies and the Environmental Humanities: Toward and Eco-Crip Theory featuring Eli Clare’s Notes on Natural Worlds, Disabled Bodies, and a Politics of Cure , 2) Merrick Pilling’s Queer and Trans Madness: Struggles for Social Justice, 3) Andil Gosine’s Nature’s Wild: Love, Sex, and Law in the Caribbean, and 4) Jeannie Gainsburg's newly release

We are extremely humbled to introduce Helen Knott's memoir, In My Own Moccasins: A Memoir of Resilience. Helen offers her truth to readers as she shares accounts of addiction, sexual violence, intergenerational trauma, and the devastating effects these things have on one's life. Through her resilience, the love she holds for her child, and her drive to advocate for other Indigenous women and girls, Helen strives to find her way to happiness through a tough and painful journey

We are honoured to feature and share with you Monique Gray Smith's Tilly and the Crazy Eights. This amazing book was the winner of the 2019/2020 First Nation Communities READ Indigenous Literature Award. The book takes on a road trip with Tilly as she drives eight of her community elders ("the Crazy Eights") on a road trip to New Mexico to the Gathering of the First Nations Pow Wow. Each person is transformed along the way as they spend time together, each filling a piece of

We are honoured to feature and share with you Jessica Victoria's book 'So I Said to My Anxiety...'. Jessica shares her knowledge about anxiety, drawing from her own personal experiences with anxiety disorder as well as knowledge gained through the psychology and mental health courses and training programs she has taken throughout the years. As founder of Stay Strong Collective , Jessica provides text-based anxiety and stress coaching services. This book serves as a tool for t

We are honoured to feature and share with you Joshua Whitehead's first novel and the 2021 CANADA READS WINNER, Jonny Appleseed . The book tells the intimate, compelling, heartbreaking yet inspiring story of a young Two-Spirit/Indigiqueer named Jonny Appleseed. The story focuses on Jonny's life as a young boy living on the reserve as well as his life as a young man living off the reserve in the big city. In the city, Johnny is trying to navigate through the challenges of life,

We are honoured to feature and share with you Jesse Wente's memoir 'Unreconciled'. Jesse's book is a call to action for education toward truth in order that the nation of Canada and Indigenous peoples can build a respectful and healthy relationship. It is a call to action for settlers of Canada to recognize how colonial attitudes and institutions still have huge impacts on Indigenous peoples. The books addresses many critical topics including the intergenerational trauma caus

We are honoured to feature and share with you Jessica Victoria's book ' From Why to Fly '. Jessica shares deeply about her own personal experiences and provides advice around mental health, disability, and LGBTQ+ identity. This book serves as a support tool for those experiencing similar life situations to those Jessica outlines, as well as an educational tool for loved ones to encourage understanding and acceptance. “My hope is that I reach more and more people in the future

We are honoured to feature and share with you Drew Hayden Taylor's 'Motorcycles & Sweetgrass'. The story opens with the readers following a mysterious and handsome stranger as he rides his 1953 Indian Chief motorcycle to Otter Lake, answering a call from an old friend to return there. Otter Lake is usually an uneventful Anishnawbe community, that is until this stranger arrives. With his arrival comes a series of strange, magical, and unexplained happenings which awaken Otter

We are thrilled to feature and share with you Cathy Marie Buchanan’s most recent novel, Daughter of Black Lake. Like both of her previous novels, this story is brought to life through vivid imagery and attention to historic detail. Readers are transported to an ancient village which will soon be forever changed due to the imminent Roman influence. The book follows the lives of Devout as she is finding her place in the world and (set seventeen years later) her daughter Hobble

We are extremely excited to feature and share with you Anton Treuer's 'The Cultural Toolbox: Traditional Ojibwe Living in the Modern World'. This book follows one Ojibwe family through the four seasons of the year and the four seasons of life, sharing a modern view of traditional Ojibwe beliefs and practices including hunting, gathering, and harvesting. The book provides readers with a feeling of connection to the rest of the planet, educating readers about this rich and beau

We are thrilled to feature and share with you Emily Ladau's ' Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to be an Ally '. This book serves as a friendly, practical, and intersectional handbook on the importance of understanding disability as part of the human experience and how we can better use our actions and voices to advocate for and support the disability community as disabled and non-disabled people alike. Ladau makes it clear that she is only one disab

Topics: Time travel/ Our ever-increasing consumerism/ Oblivion to the state of the planet, destruction of nature and art, and our ever-increasing use of plastic/ Our obsession with looking good to the point that we will let AI filters take over/ Politics/ How children will live in this toxic world. Trigger Warning: Extremely explicit content including sexual abuse and murder of children. We are happy to feature Lisa de Nikolits’ The Rage Room, a book Nikolits’ calls specula

Michelle Good was awarded the Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the Scotiabank Giller Prize, Canada for this masterpiece. Five Little Indians is a national best-seller and winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award , the Amazon First Novel Awards , and the Kobo Emerging Author Prize . Good’s book takes us along on the hopeful and often devastating journey of five residential school survivors (Kenny, Lucy, Clara, Howie, and Maisie) as they try to move forward in life w

We are proud to be featuring 2SLGBTQIA+ (two-spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transexual, queer, intersex, asexual/agender, +) inclusion and effective allyship Educational Trainer & Consultant Jeannie Gainsburg’s ‘The Savvy Ally: A Guide for Becoming a Skilled LGBTQ+ Advocate.’ Gainsburg’s book is divided into 4 parts: Becoming Knowledgeable Allies, Building Skills for Having Respectful Conversations, Taking Action to Create More Inclusive Spaces, and Allying Responsibility. T

Métis writer and lawyer Chelsea Vowel's 'Indigenous Writes: A Guide To First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Issues In Canada'. Vowel's book is divided into 5 parts: The Terminology of Relationships, Culture and Identity, Myth-busting, State Violence, and Land, Learning, Law, and Treaties. This is essential reading for anyone who is committed to working toward reconciliation. Educational Resources Click the link below to download the Educational Resources in order to Read to Learn