With plot summaries, thoughtful analyses, and contextualizing discussions of selected works, Reading Canada gives teachers and teacher-candidates the essential information they need to introduce secondary-school students of all reading levels to outstanding Canadian works of fiction.

1. Introduction: more than wheat and snow: curating our narrative culture -- 2. Re/presenting the present: contemporary realism in Canadian fiction -- 3. Historical fiction: "making and remaking the past" -- 4. Speculative fiction: imagining the world otherwise -- 5. Visual literacy, dual texts, and the expanded eye -- 6. The YA reader in the digital age -- 7. Conclusion: "a nation taking shape" -- Appendix A: Governor General's Awards for French-Language Children's Literature and Illustration 2003-2010 and English-to-French Translation 2007-2011 -- Appendix B: "Crossover" novels -- Appendix C: Curriculum resources -- Appendix D: Anti-bullying resources -- Appendix E: Close reading of a novel.