Recent Award Winners
We Belong Here
By Frieda Wishinsky, Ruth Ohi
Awards
- Short-listed, IODE Jean Throop Award, 2024
Still My Tessa
By Sylv Chiang, Mathias Ball
Awards
- Winner, CBC Kids Reads, 2024
P.S. Tell No One
By Vikki VanSickle
Awards
- Commended, OLA Best Bets, 2024
- Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, 2023
Jude Saves the World
By Ronnie Riley
Awards
- Short-listed, OLA Silver Birch Award, Fiction, 2024
- Commended, OLA Best Bets, 2024
A Bucket of Stars
By Suri Rosen
Awards
- Short-listed, Diamond Willow Award (Saskatchewan Young Readers' Choice), 2024
- Short-listed, OLA Red Maple Award, Fiction, 2024
Nutshimit: In the Woods
By Melissa Mollen Dupuis, Elise Gravel
Awards
- Commended, OLA Best Bets, 2024
I Can, Too!
By Karen Autio, Laura Watson
Awards
- Winner, The Word Awards - Books, General Market Fiction, Children, 2023
- Short-listed, The Word Awards - Debra Fieguth Social Justice Award, 2023
- Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, 2023
- Commended, CBC Kids Reads, 2023
- Commended, TD Summer Reading Club, Top Recommended Read, 2023
- Commended, OLA Best Bets, Picture Books, 2022
Autumn Bird and the Runaway
By Melanie Florence, Richard Scrimger
Awards
- Short-listed, Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award, 2024
- Short-listed, OLA Red Maple Award, Fiction, 2024
- Short-listed, Snow Willow Award (Saskatchewan Young Readers' Choice), 2024
- Short-listed, Red Cedar Award (BC Young Readers' Choice), 2023
- Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, 2023
How to Be a Goldfish
By Jane Baird Warren
Awards
- Short-listed, Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award, 2024
- Short-listed, Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People, 2023
- Short-listed, Jean Little First-Novel Award, 2023
- Short-listed, Snow Willow Award (Saskatchewan Young Readers' Choice), 2023
- Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, 2023
Winterkill
By Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch
Awards
- Short-listed, Kobzar Literary Award, 2024
- Short-listed, Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award, 2024
- Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, 2023
Do You Wonder?
By Wallace Edwards
Awards
- Short-listed, IODE Jean Throop Award, 2023
- Commended, TD Summer Reading Club, Top Recommended Read, 2024
- Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, 2023
It’s My Body!
By Elise Gravel
Awards
- Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, 2023
- Commended, Toronto Public Library First & Best Booklist, 2022
Hockey Super Six: In The Game
By Kevin Sylvester
Awards
- Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, 2023
The Brass Charm
By Monique Polak, Marie Lafrance
Awards
- Short-listed, Shining Willow Award (Saskatchewan Young Readers' Choice), 2023
- Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, 2023
The Lunch Club #5: The Return of the Mummy
By Dom Pelletier
Awards
- Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, 2023
I Can Fix It!
By Robert Munsch, Michael Martchenko
Awards
- Short-listed, IODE Jean Throop Award, 2022
- Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, 2022
Fast Friends
By Heather M O’Connor, Claudia Dávila
Awards
- Winner, TD Grade One Giveaway Book, 2022
- Winner, Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Award, 2021
- Short-listed, IODE Jean Throop Award, 2021
- Short-listed, OLA Blue Spruce Award, 2021
- Short-listed, Shining Willow Award (Saskatchewan Young Readers' Choice), 2021
- Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, 2020
- Commended, OLA Best Bets, 2020
- Commended, Toronto Public Library First & Best Booklist, 2020
Dragon Assassin
By Arthur Slade
Awards
- Short-listed, OLA Red Maple Award, Fiction, 2021
- Commended, TD Summer Reading Club, Top Recommended Read, 2022
- Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, Starred Selection, 2021