Recent awards & nominations
Fast Friends
By Heather M. O'Connor
Illustrated by Claudia Dávila
- Short-listed, OLA Blue Spruce Award, 2021
Planet Hockey: First Star of the Game
By J. Torres
Illustrated by Tim Levins
- Short-listed, OLA Silver Birch Express Award, 2021
The Unteachables
By Gordon Korman
- Short-listed, Red Cedar Award (BC Young Readers' Choice), 2021
- Short-listed, OLA Red Maple Award, Fiction - Honour Book, 2019
- Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, 2019
- Commended, OLA Best Bets, 2019
Nikki Tesla and the Ferret-Proof Death Ray (Elements of Genius #1)
Illustrated by Lissy Marlin
By Jess Keating
- Short-listed, Sunburst Award, Young Adult category, 2020
- Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, Starred Selection, 2020
The Candle and the Flame
By Nafiza Azad
- Short-listed, Sunburst Award, Young Adult category, 2020
- Short-listed, Amy Mathers Teen Book Award, 2020
- Short-listed, YALSA William C. Morris YA Debut Award, 2020
Haunted: The House Next Door
By Joel A Sutherland
- Winner, Diamond Willow Award (Saskatchewan Young Readers' Choice), 2019
- Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, 2018
The Canadian Kids' Guide to Outdoor Fun
By Helaine Becker
Illustrated by Claudia Dávila
- Short-listed, Rocky Mountain Book Award (Alberta Children's Choice), 2021
- Commended, TD Summer Reading Club - Top 10 Recommended Read, 2020
- Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, Starred Selection, 2019
- Commended, OLA Best Bets, 2019
Stand on the Sky
By Erin Bow
- Winner, Governor General's Award for Young People's Literature - Text, 2019
- Short-listed, Rocky Mountain Book Award (Alberta Children's Choice), 2021
- Short-listed, TD Canadian Children's Literature Award, 2020
- Short-listed, Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Award, 2020
- Short-listed, IODE Canada Violet Downey Award, 2020
- Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, 2019
- Commended, OLA Best Bets, 2019
Scholastic Canada Biography: Meet Elsie MacGill
By Elizabeth MacLeod
Illustrated by Mike Deas
- Short-listed, Rocky Mountain Book Award (Alberta Children's Choice), 2021
- Short-listed, Hackmatack Children's Choice Award (Atlantic Canada), 2020
- Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, Starred Selection, 2020
- Commended, OLA Best Bets, 2019
Nibi's Water Song
By Sunshine Tenasco
Illustrated by Chief Lady Bird
- Short-listed, IODE Toronto Jean Throop Award, 2020
- Long-listed, First Nation Communities READ Award, 2020
- Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, Starred Selection, 2020
Bear for Breakfast
By Robert Munsch
Illustrated by Jay Odjick
- Long-listed, First Nation Communities READ Award, 2020
- Commended, Toronto Public Library First & Best Booklist, 2019
It's Not All Rainbows
By Jessika von Innerebner
Illustrated by Jessika von Innerebner
- Short-listed, Chocolate Lily Book Award (BC Children's Choice), 2020
- Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, 2020
Finding Cooper
By Stacey Matson
- Short-listed, Chocolate Lily Book Award (BC Children's Choice), 2020
- Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, 2020
Sparks!
By Ian Boothby
Illustrated by Nina Matsumoto
- Winner, Hackmatack Children's Choice Award (Atlantic Canada), 2019
- Winner, Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature Prize, 2019
- Commended, OLA Best Bets, 2018
- Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, Starred Selection, 2018
- Commended, Resource Links, Best of the Year, 2018
My Deal with the Universe
By Deborah Kerbel
- Short-listed, Diamond Willow Award (Saskatchewan Young Readers' Choice), 2020
- Short-listed, Red Cedar Award (BC Young Readers' Choice), 2020
- Short-listed, Rocky Mountain Book Award (Alberta Children's Choice), 2020
- Commended, Resource Links, Best of the Year, 2018
Don't Tell the Nazis
By Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch
- Short-listed, Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award, 2020
- Short-listed, Snow Willow Award (Saskatchewan Young Readers' Choice), 2020
- Short-listed, OLA Red Maple Award, Fiction, 2019
- Short-listed, Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People, 2019
- Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, 2018
The Journey of Little Charlie
By Christopher Paul Curtis
- Winner, Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People, 2019
- Short-listed, Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award, 2020
- Short-listed, Snow Willow Award (Saskatchewan Young Readers' Choice), 2020
- Short-listed, National Book Award, Young People's Literature Category, 2018
- Short-listed, Governor General's Award for Children's Literature - Text, 2018
- Commended, Parents' Choice Award - Gold, 2018
- Commended, Kirkus Best Books of the Year, 2018
- Commended, Resource Links, Best of the Year, 2018
- Commended, New York Public Library Best Books, 2018
- Commended, The Horn Book Fanfare - Best Books , 2018
- Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, Starred Selection, 2018
- Commended, School Library Journal Best Books, 2018
Amazing Hockey Stories: P.K. Subban
By Lorna Schultz Nicholson
Illustrated by D. A. Bishop
- Short-listed, Hackmatack Children's Choice Award (Atlantic Canada), 2020
The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali
By Sabina Khan
- Short-listed, Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize (BC), 2020
- Short-listed, OLA White Pine Award, Fiction, 2019
- Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, 2019
- Commended, OLA Best Bets: Honourable Mention, 2019
Scholastic Canada Biography: Meet Tom Longboat
By Elizabeth MacLeod
Illustrated by Mike Deas
- Short-listed, OLA Silver Birch Express Award, 2019
- Commended, TD Summer Reading Club - Top 10 Recommended Read, 2020
- Commended, OLA Best Bets, 2019
Keep Up, Katmai
By Pili Palm-Leis
Photographs by Barrett Hedges
- Commended, OLA Best Bets: Honourable Mention, 2019
Cross Fire: An Exo Novel
By Fonda Lee
- Winner, Prix Aurora Awards, 2019
- Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, 2019
Haunted: Field of Screams
By Joel A Sutherland
- Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, 2019
Fierce: Women Who Shaped Canada
By Lisa Dalrymple
Illustrated by Willow Dawson
- Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, 2019
Haunted Canada 9: Scary True Stories
By Joel A Sutherland
Illustrated by Mark Savona
- Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, 2019
The Madman of Piney Woods (Scholastic Gold)
By Christopher Paul Curtis
- Short-listed, Rocky Mountain Book Award (Alberta Children's Choice), 2016
- Short-listed, OLA Silver Birch Award, Fiction, 2014
- Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, 2019
- Commended, TD Summer Reading Club, 2017
- Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, Starred Selection, 2015
Say Something!
By Peter H Reynolds
- Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, 2019
Two Dogs in a Trench Coat Start a Club by Accident
By Julie Falatko
Illustrated by Colin Jack
- Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, 2019
Will Giraffe Laugh?
By Hilary Leung
- Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, 2019
Amazing Hockey Stories: Hayley Wickenheiser
By Lorna Schultz Nicholson
Illustrated by D A Bishop
- Short-listed, OLA Yellow Cedar Award, Non-Fiction, 2019
- Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, 2019
Underneath the Sidewalk
By Claire Eamer
Illustrated by Thomas Gibault
- Winner, Shining Willow Award (Saskatchewan Young Readers' Choice), 2018
- Short-listed, Chocolate Lily Book Award (BC Children's Choice), 2019
The Almost Epic Squad: Mucus Mayhem
By Kevin Sylvester
Illustrated by Britt Wilson
- Short-listed, Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award, 2020
- Short-listed, OLA Silver Birch Award, Fiction, 2019
- Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, 2019
Don't Tell the Enemy
By Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch
- Short-listed, Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award, 2020
- Short-listed, Snow Willow Award (Saskatchewan Young Readers' Choice), 2020
- Short-listed, Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People, 2019
- Short-listed, OLA Red Maple Award, Fiction, 2019
- Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, Starred Selection, 2018
The Way Back Home
By Allan Stratton
- Winner, Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award, 2019
- Short-listed, Amy Mathers Teen Book Award, 2018
- Short-listed, OLA Red Maple Award, Fiction, 2018
- Short-listed, Governor General's Award for Young People's Literature - Text, 2017
- Nominated, Carnegie Medal, UK, 2018
- Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, Starred Selection, 2017
- Commended, Resource Links, Best of the Year, 2017
The Winnowing
By Vikki VanSickle
- Winner, OLA Red Maple Award, Fiction, 2018
- Short-listed, Snow Willow Award (Saskatchewan Young Readers' Choice), 2018
- Runner-up, Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award, 2019
- Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, Starred Selection, 2018
Canadian Survival (Countdown to Danger)
By Jeff Szpirglas
- Short-listed, Hackmatack Children's Choice Award (Atlantic Canada), 2019
- Commended, TD Summer Reading Club, Top Ten Recommended Reads, 2019
Scholastic Canada Biography: Meet Viola Desmond
By Elizabeth MacLeod
Illustrated by Mike Deas
- Winner, OLA Silver Birch Express Award, 2019
- Short-listed, Hackmatack Children's Choice Award (Atlantic Canada), 2019
- Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, Starred Selection, 2019
- Commended, OLA Best Bets, 2018
- Commended, Resource Links, Best of the Year, 2018
Restart
By Gordon Korman
- Short-listed, OLA Silver Birch Award, Fiction, 2018
- Runner-up, Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award, 2019
- Commended, Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Books of the Year , 2018
- Commended, Resource Links, Best of the Year, 2017
- Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, Starred Selection, 2017
Fox and Squirrel Help Out
By Ruth Ohi
- Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, 2019
- Commended, Toronto Public Library First & Best Booklist, 2018
- Commended, Resource Links, Best of the Year, 2018
Picture the Sky
By Barbara Reid
- Winner, CBC Fan Choice Award, 2018
- Short-listed, TD Canadian Children's Literature Award, 2018
- Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, Starred Selection, 2018
- Commended, Resource Links, Best of the Year, 2017
- Commended, Toronto Public Library First & Best Booklist, 2017
Mine!
By Natalie Hyde
- Short-listed, OLA Silver Birch Award, Fiction, 2019
- Short-listed, Red Cedar Award (BC Young Readers' Choice), 2018
- Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, 2018
At the Pond
By Werner Zimmermann
- Short-listed, Governor General's Award for Children's Literature - Illustration, 2018
- Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, 2019
- Commended, Resource Links, Best of the Year, 2018
The Vimy Oaks: A Journey to Peace
By Linda Granfield
Illustrated by Brian Deines
- Short-listed, Rocky Mountain Book Award (Alberta Children's Choice), 2019
- Short-listed, Red Cedar Award (BC Young Readers' Choice), 2018
- Short-listed, Hackmatack Children's Choice Award (Atlantic Canada), 2018
- Short-listed, OLA Silver Birch Express Award, 2018
- Commended, Resource Links, Best of the Year, 2017
- Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, Starred Selection, 2017
Exo
By Fonda Lee
- Short-listed, Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award, 2019
- Short-listed, OLA White Pine Award, Fiction, 2018
- Short-listed, Sunburst Award, Young Adult category, 2018
- Nominated, Andrew Norton Award for Outstanding Young Adult Science Fiction or Fantasy Book, 2017
- Joint winner, Prix Aurora Awards, 2018
- Commended, ALA Notable , Best Fiction for Young Adults, 2018
- Commended, Oregon Spirit Book Award, YA Honour Book, 2018
- Commended, OLA Best Bets, 2017
Bounced
By Ted Staunton
- Short-listed, Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award, 2019
- Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, 2017
The Heart's Song
By Gilles Tibo
Illustrated by Irene Luxbacher
- Short-listed, Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Award, 2018
- Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, Starred Selection, 2018
- Commended, Resource Links, Best of the Year, 2017
Amazing Hockey Stories: Connor McDavid
By Lorna Schultz Nicholson
Illustrated by D A Bishop
- Nominated, Hackmatack Children's Choice Award (Atlantic Canada), 2018
Summer's End
By Joel A Sutherland
- Short-listed, Snow Willow Award (Saskatchewan Young Readers' Choice), 2018
- Short-listed, OLA Red Maple Award, Fiction, 2018
- Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, 2017
Braids!
By Robert Munsch
Illustrated by Dave Whamond
- Winner, Rainforest of Reading Award, 2018
- Winner, Reuben Award for Best Illustrated Book, National Cartoonists Society, 2017
- Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, 2017
I Am Canada: A Celebration
By Heather Patterson
Illustrated by Jon Klassen
Illustrated by Barbara Reid
Illustrated by Marie-Louise Gay
Illustrated by Danielle Daniel
Illustrated by Geneviève Côté
Illustrated by Ashley Spires
Illustrated by Qin Leng
Illustrated by Jeremy Tankard
- Commended, Toronto Public Library First & Best Booklist, 2017
- Commended, Resource Links, Best of the Year, 2017
- Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, 2017
Dear Canada: These Are My Words: The Residential School Diary of Violet Pesheens
By Ruby Slipperjack
- Short-listed, Red Cedar Award (BC Young Readers' Choice), 2018
- Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, Starred Selection, 2017
- Commended, TD Summer Reading Club, 2017
- Commended, CBC Best Books of the Year, 2016
Happy Dreamer
By Peter H Reynolds
- Nominated, Rainforest of Reading Award, 2018
- Commended, TD Summer Reading Club, 2018
Icarus Down
By James Bow
- Winner, Prix Aurora Awards, 2017
- Short-listed, Snow Willow Award (Saskatchewan Young Readers' Choice), 2017
- Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, Starred Selection, 2017
- Commended, CBC Children's Book Panel Recommendation, 2016