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2024 FOLD Kids Challenge — November

An ACCESSIBLE* book by a marginalized author

by Centre for Equitable Library Access (CELA)

CELA is a national accessible library service which provides more than 1.4 million titles to people in Canada who have print disabilities. It is estimated that more than 1 in 10 people have a print disability which includes low vision or blindness, learning disabilities, or physical disabilities which make it difficult to read print. Globally as few as 1 in 7 titles published are available in accessible formats and a lack of access to reading materials impacts academic, economic and social opportunities.

Our services ensure that people with print disabilities across the country are more able to fully participate in learning, work and community life and contribute to the social, cultural, and economic development and success of their local and broader communities.

We’re delighted to work with the FOLD on this challenge and we’ve chosen books which highlight a diverse slate of authors from Canada and Turtle Island who share important perspectives, stories and information, not just for our users but for all readers.

Book cover of Funeral Songs for Dying Girls by Cherie Dimaline. Cover features an illustration of two stone statues and brown hands in the middle holding a broken eggshell and flowers.

Funeral Songs for Dying Girls By Cherie Dimaline (Young Adult)

After inadvertently starting rumours of a haunted cemetery, a teen befriends a ghost in this young adult novel exploring grief and belonging by the critically acclaimed and bestselling author of The Marrow Thieves series, now available in paperback.

Winifred has lived in the apartment above the cemetery office with her father, who works in the crematorium, all her life, close to her mother’s grave. With her sixteenth birthday only days away, Winifred has settled into a lazy summer schedule, lugging her obese Chihuahua around the grounds in a squeaky red wagon to visit the neglected gravesides and nursing a serious crush on her best friend, Jack.

Her habit of wandering the graveyard at all hours has started a rumor that Winterson Cemetery might be haunted. It’s welcome news since the crematorium is on the verge of closure and her father’s job is being outsourced. Now that the ghost tours have started, Winifred just might be able to save her father’s job and the only home she’s ever known, not to mention being able to stay close to where her mother is buried. All she has to do is get help from her con-artist cousin to keep up the ruse and somehow manage to stop her father from believing his wife has returned from the grave. But when Phil, an actual ghost of a teen girl who lived and died in the ravine next to the cemetery, starts showing up, Winifred begins to question everything she believes about life, love and death. Especially love.