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1 2021
Break in Case of Emergency ★ Hunted by the Sky ★ Brian Francis Tanaz Bhathena HarperCollins Canada Penguin Teen Canada
Charming As A Verb Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me Ben Philippe Mariko Tamaki & Rosemary Valero-O’Connell HarperCollins US Groundwood Books
Fan the Fame Like a Love Story Anna Priemaza Abdi Nazemian HarperTeen (HarperCollins US) HarperCollins US
Frying Plantain The Starlight Claim Zalika Reid-Benta Tim Wynne-Jones House of Anansi Press Candlewick Press
He Must Like You You Don’t Have To Die in the End Danielle Young-Ullman Anita Daher Penguin Teen Canada Yellow Dog
2 2020
All Our Broken Pieces The Field Guide to the North American L.D. Crichton Teenager Disney Hyperion Ben Philippe Balzer + Bray Baggage Wendy Phillips The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali Coteau Books Sabina Khan Scholastic Canada Ltd The Beauty of the Moment Tanaz Bhathena ★ Sadie ★ Penguin Teen Courtney Summers St. Martin’s Press Comics Will Break Your Heart Faith Erin Hicks Synchro Boy Roaring Brook Press Shannon McFerran Arsenal Pulp Press Crown of Feathers Nicki Pau Preto We Contain Multitudes Simon Pulse Sarah Henstra Penguin Teen
2019
36 Questions That Changed A Girl Like That My Mind About You Tanaz Bhathena Vicki Grant Farrar Straus Giroux Running Press Teens The Mosaic ★ The Agony of Bun O’Keefe ★ Nina Berkhout Heather T. Smith Groundwood Books Penguin Teen Canada Munro vs. The Coyote Black Chuck Darren Groth Regan McDonell Orca Book Publishers Orca Book Publishers Prince of Pot Catching the Light Tanya Lloyd Kyi Susan Sinnott Groundwood Books Vagrant Press Recipe for Hate Chaotic Good Warren Kinsella Whitney Gardner Dundurn Press A. A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
3 2018
Every Hidden Thing The Marrow Thieves Kenneth Oppel Cherie Dimaline Harper Trophy Dancing Cat Books
★ Everything Beautiful is Not Ruined ★ Optimists Die First Danielle Younge-Ullman Susin Nielsen Razorbill Canada Tundra Books
Exo The Pain Eater Fonda Lee Beth Goobie Scholastic Canada Ltd. Second Story Press
The Fashion Committee Speed of Life Susan Juby J.M. Kelly Penguin Random House Canada Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Girl Mans Up Subject to Change M-E Girard Karen Nesbitt HarperCollins Publishers Ltd Orca Book Publishers
2017
Calvin The Orange Grove Martine Leavitt Larry Tremblay, Groundwood Books translated from French by Sheila Fischman Biblioasis Dan vs. Nature Don Calame Rodent Candlewick Press Lisa J. Lawrence Orca Book Publishers The Emperor of Any Place Tim Wynne-Jones The Scorpion Rules Candlewick Press Erin Bow Margaret K. McElderry Books Exit, Pursued by a Bear E.K. Johnston A Thousand Nights Dutton Books E.K. Johnston Disney Hyperion ★ Fifteen Lanes ★ S.J. Laidlaw Worlds of Ink and Shadow Tundra Books Lena Coakley HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.
4 2016
All the Rage Rabbit Ears Courtney Summers Maggie De Vries St. Martin’s Press HarperCollins Canada
The Art of Getting Stared At A Sense of the Infinite Laura Langston Hilary T. Smith Penguin Group Canada HarperCollins/Katherine Tegen Books
★ The Bodies We Wear ★ Soldier Doll Jeyn Roberts Jennifer Gold Knopf/Penguin Random House Canada Second Story Press
Delusion Road The Story of Owen: Dragon Slayer of Don Aker Trondheim HarperCollins Canada, Limited E.K. Johnston Lerner Publishing Group The Outside Circle: A Graphic Novel Patti LaBoucane-Benson The Troop House of Anansi Press Inc. Nick Cutter Pocket Books
2015
Apparition The Opposite Of Geek Gail Gallant Ria Voros Random House Scholastic Canada
Audacious ★ Rush ★ Gabrielle Prendergast Eve Silver Orca HarperCollins Canada
Baygirl The Silent Summer Of Kyle McGinley Heather Smith Jan Andrews Orca Great Plains
Creeps Tag Along Darren Hynes Tom Ryan Penguin Books Orca Book Publishers
The Oathbreaker's Shadow The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B Amy McCulloch Teresa Toten Random House Random House
5 2014 Fiction
★ Live To Tell ★ Running On Empty Lisa Harrington Don Aker Dancing Cat Books Harper Collins
My Book of Life By Angel Seraphina Martine Leavitt Rachel Hartman Groundwood Books Doubleday Canada
Nix Minus One The Fall Jill MacLean Colleen Nelson Pajama Press Great Plains Publications
Old Man The Waiting Tree David A. Poulsen Lindsay Moynihan Dundurn Amazon Children’s Publishing
One In Every Crowd This is Not a Test Ivan E. Coyote Courtney Summers Arsenal Pulp Press St. Martin’s Press
Non-Fiction: The Last Year for the White Pine Non-Fiction Award Program
100 Days That Changed Canada Moving Out!: A Young Adult’s Guide to Mark Reid Living on Your Own Harper Collins Cindy Babyn General Store Publishing House Born To Be Brad: My Life and Style, So Far Brad Goreski & Mickey Rapkin People Who Said No: Courage Against Harper Collins Oppression Laura Scandiffio Georges St. Pierre: The Way of the Fight Annick Press Georges St. Pierre Harper Collins Real Justice: Guilty of Being Weird: The Story of Guy Paul Morin Hold the Oxo!: A Teenage Soldier Writes Cynthia J. Faryon Home James Lorimer & Company Marion Fargey Brooker Dundurn Save the Humans Rob Stewart Living Me to We: The Guide for Socially Random House Conscious Canadians Craig Kielberger & Marc Kielburger ★ The Secret of the Blue Trunk ★ Greystone Books Lise Dion & Liedewij Hawke Dundurn
6 2013 Fiction
All Good Children The Opposite Of Tidy Catherine Austen Carrie Mac Orca Book Publishers Razorbill/Penguin Group
★ Dark Inside ★ The Taming Jeyn Roberts Eric Walters & Teresa Toten Simon & Schuster BFYR/Simon & Schuster, Inc. Doubleday Canada/ Random House of Canada Limited First Day On Earth Cecil Castellucci Way to Go Scholastic Press/Scholastic Inc. Tom Ryan Orca Book Publishers Getting Over Garrett Delaney Abby McDonald The Way We Fall Candlewick Press Megan Crewe Hyperion/Disney Book Group Karma Cathy Ostlere Witchlanders Puffin Canada/Penguin Group Lena Coakley Atheneum Books For Young Readers/ Simon & Schuster, Inc.
7 2012 Fiction
Ashes, Ashes The Fifth Rule Jo Treggiari Don Aker Scholastic Canada Harper Trophy Canada/Harper Collins Publishers
Beat the Band ★ The Gathering ★ Don Calame Kelley Armstrong Candlewick Press Random House Canada/Doubleday Canada
Blood Red Road Motorcycles & Sweetgrass Moira Young Drew Hayden Taylor Random House Canada/Doubleday Canada Random House Canada/Vintage Canada
Chance to Dance for You Something Wicked Gail Sidonie Sobat Lesley Anne Cowan Great Plains Publications Puffin Canada/Penguin Group Canada
Death Benefits The Way It Is Sarah N. Harvey Donalda Reid Orca Book Publishers Second Story Press
Non-Fiction
★ The Book of Awesome ★ Kick the Fossil Fuel Habit: 10 Clean Neil Pasricha Technologies to Save Our World Penguin Group USA/Amy Einhorn Books Tom Rand & Dave Clark Eco Ten Publishing Call Me Russell Russell Peters Nice Recovery Random House Canada/Doubleday Canada Susan Juby Penguin Group Canada/Viking Canada Canada’s Wars: An Illustrated History Jonathan Webb & J.L. Granatstein Stick to Your Vision: How to Get Past the Scholastic Canada Hurdles & Haters to Get Where You Want to Be Wes “Maestro” Williams Hockey Now! McClelland & Stewart Mike Leonetti Firefly Books Two Generals Scott Chantler I.D.: Stuff That Happens to Define Us McClelland & Stewart Kate Scowen & Peter Mitchell Annick Press Will to Live: Dispatches from the Edge of Survival Les Stroud Harper Collins Publishers
8 2011
Borderline ★ The Monkeyface Chronicles ★ Allan Stratton Richard Scarsbrook HarperCollins Canada Thistledown Press
Fear the Worst The Second Trial Linwood Barclay Rosemarie Boll Random House Second Story Press
Fishtailing Some Girls Are Wendy Phillips Courtney Summers Coteau Books HB Fenn
Gravity Brings Me Down Swim the Fly Natale Ghent Don Calame Random House Random House
Hearts at Stake The Worst Thing She Ever Did Alyxandra Harvey Alice Kuipers Penguin Group Canada HarperCollins Canada
2010
The Book of Michael ★ Mostly Happy ★ Lesley Choyce Pam Bustin Red Deer Press Thistledown Press
Cracked Up To Be The Perfect Cut Courtney Summers Julie Burtinshaw St. Martin’s Griffin Raincoast Books
Getting The Girl Sister Wife Susan Juby Shelley Hrdlitschka HarperCollins Canada Orca Books Publishers
Half World The Uninvited Hiromi Goto Tim Wynne-Jones Penguin Group (Canada) Candlewick Press
The Landing Wondrous Strange John Ibbitson Lesley Livingston Kids Can Press HarperCollins Canada
9 2009
After River Gotcha Donna Milner Shelly Hrdlitschka HarperCollins Canada Orca Book Publishers
Chanda’s War Gravity Journal Allan Stratton Gail Sobat HarperTrophy Great Plains Publications
The Corps of the Bare Boned Plane ★ Little Brother ★ Polly Horvath Corey Doctorow Groundwood Books TOR
Daughter of War Mountain Girl, River Girl Marsha Skrupuch Ting-Xing Ye Fitzhenry & Whiteside Ltd Penguin Group
Dooley Takes the Fall Tweaked Nora McClintock Katherine Holubitsky Red Deer Press Orca Book Publishers
2008
Another Kind of Cowboy ★ Keturah & Lord Death ★ Susan Juby Martine Leavitt HarperCollins Red Deer Press
The Blue Helmet The Song of Kahunsha William Bell Anosh Irani Doubleday Canada Anchor Canada
The Droughtlanders: Book One in Triskelia The Space Between Series Don Aker Carrie Mac HarperCollins Penguin The Warrior’s Daughter The End of the World as We Know It Holly Bennett Lesley Choyce Orca Book Publishers Red Deer Press Ysabel Grist Guy Gavriel Kay Heather Waldorf Penguin Red Deer Press
10 2007
After The Penelopiad Francis Chalifour Margaret Atwood Tundra Books Knopf Canada
The Bonemender ★ Shattered ★ Holly Bennett Eric Walters Orca Book Publishers Viking/Penguin
Four Steps to Death The Sundog Season John Wilson John Geddes Kids Can Press Turnstone Press
How to be a Hero on Earth 5 Three Songs for Courage Rob Payne Maxine Trottier Penguin Canada Tundra Books
Me and the Blondes Wild Orchid Teresa Toten Beverley Brenna Penguin Canada Red Deer Press
2006
Acceleration Esther Graham McNamee Sharon McKay Laurel Leaf/Random House Penguin Canada
Angeline First Vial Karleen Bradford Linnea Heinrichs Harper Collins Canada Thistledown Press
B For Buster Rooster Iain Lawrence Don Trembath Delacorte Press/Random House Orca Book Publishing
★ The Blue Girl ★ Sun Signs Charles De Lint Shelley Hrdlitschka Viking Orca Book Publishing
Blue Highway Winter’s Tale Diane Tullson Gail Sidonie Sobat Fitzhenry & Whiteside Great Plains Publications
11 2005
Becoming Ruby Kat’s Fall Kathy Stinson Shelley Hrdlitschka Penguin Canada Orca
Chanda’s Secrets Miss Smithers Allan Stratton Susan Juby Annick HarperCollins
Cheeseburger Subversive ★ More Than You Can Chew ★ Richard Scarsbrook Marnelle Tokio Thistledown Tundra
Flames of the Tiger Take The Stairs John Wilson Karen Krossing Kids Can Second Story
Kate The Thought of High Windows Valerie Sherrard Lynne Kositsky Dundurn Kids Can
2004
And In the Morning Shoulder The Sky John Wilson Lesley Choyce H.B. Fenn & Company Dundurn
★ The First Stone ★ Skud Don Aker Dennis Foon Harper Trophy Canada Groundwood
The Lottery Theories of Relativity Beth Goobie Barbara Haworth-Attard Orca Book Publishers Harper Trophy Canada
No Escape Throwaway Daughter Norah McClintock Ting-Xing Ye Scholastic Canada Seal Books
Search of the Moon King’s Daughter Tom Finder Linda Holeman Martine Leavitt Tundra Books Red Deer Press
12 2003
★ A Foreign Field ★ Sticks and Stones Gillian Chan Beth Goobie Kids Can Press Orca Book Publishers
The Losers’ Club Surviving Sam John Lekich Karen Rivers Annick Press Polestar Book Publishers
The Maze Tribes Monica Hughes Arthur Slade HarperCollins Publishers HarperCollins Publishers
Parvana’s Journey True Confessions of a Heartless Girl Deborah Ellis Martha Brooks Groundwood Books/Douglas & McIntyre Groundwood/Douglas & MacIntyre
The Road to Chlifa Truth and Lies Michele Marineau, Translated by Susan Ouriou Tamara L. Williams Red Deer Press James Lorimer & Co.
2002
Double or Nothing Over The Edge Dennis Foon Nora McClintock Annick Press Scholastic Canada
The Grave Dead Water Zone James Heneghan Kenneth Oppel Douglas & McIntyre Harper Collins
★ Dancing Naked ★ Seven for a Secret Shelley Hrdlitschka Mary C. Sheppard Orca Book Publishers Douglas & McIntyre
Graveyard Girl Leslie’s Journal Wendy Lewis Allan Stratton Red Deer Press Annick Press
Up All Night The Game R. P. MacIntyre Teresa Toten Thistledown Press Red Deer Press
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