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RED MAPLE AWARD™ WINNERS AND NOMINEES

1998–2017

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A Celebration of Canadian Authors, Illustrators, and Publishers


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2017

FICTION

NON-FICTION

A Beginner’s Guide to Immortality: From Alchemy to Avatars

Maria Birmingham, Josh HolinatyOwlkids Books

Bite into BloodsuckersKari-Lynn Winters, Ishta Mercurio

Fitzhenry & Whiteside, Limited

★ Child Soldier: ★When Boys and Girls are Used in War

Michel Chikwanine, Jessica Dee Humphreys, Claudia Dávila

Kids Can Press, Ltd.

DNA DetectiveTanya Lloyd Kyi, Lil Crump

Annick Press

Faster Higher Smarter: Bright Ideas That Transformed Sports

Simon Shapiro, Theo Krynauw, Warwick Goldswain

Annick Press

Hidden Gold: A True Story of the Holocaust Ella Burakowski

Second Story Press

Pride: Celebrating Diversity & CommunityRobin Stevenson

Orca Book Publishers

Transphobia: Deal with it and be a gender transcender

j wallace skelton, Nick JohnsonJames Lorimer & Company

Urban Tribes: Native Americans in the City Lisa Charleyboy, Mary Beth Leatherdale

Annick Press

Vanished: True Tales of Mysterious Disappearances

Elizabeth MacLeodAnnick Press

Born With: Erika and GianniLorna Schultz Nicholson

Clockwise Press

FlickersArthur Slade

HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.

The HillKaren Bass

Pajama Press

Lucky JonahRichard Scrimger


MiNRSKevin Sylvester

Margaret K. McElderry Books

Sea ChangeFrank Viva

Tundra Books

Shattered GlassTeresa Toten


★ Shooter ★Caroline Pignat

Razorbill

Trouble is a Friend of MineStephanie Tromly

Penguin Young Readers Group

The Unquiet PastKelley Armstrong



2016

FICTION

The Cat At The WallDeborah Ellis

Groundwood Books

★ The Dogs ★Allan Stratton

Scholastic Canada Ltd.

Fragile Bones: Harrison and AnnaLorna Schultz Nicholson

Clockwise Press

The Gospel Truth Caroline PignatRed Deer Press

Prison BoySharon E. McKay

Annick Press

The Truth CommissionSusan Juby

Razorbill Canada

Uncertain SoldierKaren Bass

Pajama Press

Walking Home Eric Walters

Doubleday Canada

We Are All Made of MoleculesSusin NielsenTundra Books

Young Man With Camera: A Novel With Photographs

Emil Sher, David Wyman Scholastic Canada Ltd.


2015

FICTION

NON-FICTION

Growing Up, Inside and OutKira Vermond, Carl Chin

Owlkids

It’s Catching: The Infectious World of Germs and Microbes

Jennifer Gardy, Josh HolinatyOwlkids

★ The Last Train: A Holocaust Story ★Rona Arato

Owlkids

Legends, Icons & Rebels: Music That Changed the World

Robbie Robertson and Sebastian RobertsonTundra Books

Looks Like Daylight: Voices of Indigenous KidsDeborah Ellis

Groundwood Books

Pay It Forward Kids: Small Acts, Big ChangeNancy Runstedler

Fitzhenry & Whiteside

Real Justice: Sentenced to Life at Seventeen: The Story of David Milgaard

Cynthia J. FaryonLorimer

Starting from Scratch: What You Should Know about Food & CookingSarah Elton, Jeff Kulak

Owlkids

We Are CanadaRikia Saddy, Cameron McLellan

Read Leaf

Why Do We Fight?: Conflict, War, and PeaceNiki Walker

Owlkids

The BoundlessKenneth Oppel

HarperCollins Canada

The Comic Book WarJacqueline Guest

Coteau Books

Dead Man’s SwitchSigmund Brouwer

Harvest House

How to Outrun a Crocodile When Your Shoes Are Untied

Jess Keating Sourcebooks Jabberwocky

Outside InSarah Ellis

Groundwood Books

★ Rule of Three ★ Eric Walters

Penguin Book

The Strange Gift of Gwendolyn GoldenPhilippa Dowding

Dundurn

Summer Days, Starry NightsVikki VanSickle

Scholastic Canada

UnspeakableCaroline Pignat

Razorbill Canada

ZomboyRichard Scrimger



2014

FICTION

Between Heaven and EarthEric Walters


Counting Back from NineValerie Sherrard


Devil’s PassSigmund Brouwer


Jump CutTed Staunton


Loki’s Wolves: The Blackwell PagesK.L Armstong & M.A Marr

Little Brown Books

My Name is ParvanaDeborah Ellis

Groundwood Books

Oak Island RevengeCynthia d’EntremontNimbus Publishing

Small Medium at LargeJoanne LevyBloomsbury

Such Wicked IntentKenneth OppelHarper Collins

★ The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen ★

Susin NielsenTundra Books


2013

FICTION

NON-FICTION

The Adventures of Medical Man: Kids Illnesses and Injuries Explained

Dr. Michael Evans & David Wichman, Gareth Wil-liams.

Annick Press Ltd.

Beyond Bullets: A Photo Journal Of AfghanistanRafal Gerszak with Dawn Hunter

Annick Press Ltd.

Last Airlift: A Vietnamese Orphan’s Rescue from War

Marsha Forchuk SkrypuchPajama Press Inc.

Lizards in the Sky: Animals Where You Least Expect ThemClaire Eamer

Annick Press Ltd.

The Lowdown On DenimTanya Lloyd Kyi, Clayton Hanmer

Annick Press Ltd.

★ ★ Real Justice: Fourteen And Sentenced To Death ★Bill Swan

James Lorimer & Company Ltd.

Running To Extremes: Ray Zahab’s Amazing Ultramarathon Journey

Steve Pitt with Ray ZahabPuffin Canada/Penguin Group

The Sea Wolves: Living Wild In The Great Bear Rainforest

Ian McAllister & Nicholas ReadOrca Book Publishers

The Secret Life of Money: A Kid’s Guide To Cash

Kira Vermond, Clayton HanmerOwlkids Books Inc.

You Just Can’t Help It!: Your Guide to the Wild and Wacky World of Human Behavior

Jeff Szpirglas, Josh HolinatyMaple Tree/Owlkids Books Inc.

crush. candy. corpse.Sylvia McNicoll

James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers

The Dragon Turn: The Boy Sherlock Holmes, His 5th Case

Shane PeacockTundra Books

End of DaysEric Walters

Doubleday Canada/Random House of Canada Limited

First DescentPam WithersTundra Books

TestifyValerie SherrardDundurn Press

This Dark EndeavourKenneth Oppel


The TiffinMahtab Narsimhan

Dancing Cat Books/Cormorant Books Inc.

The Town That DrownedRiel Nason

Goose Lane Editions

The Vampire StalkerAllison Van Diepen

Point/Scholastic Inc.

★ The Vindico ★Wesley King

G.P. Putnam’s Sons/Penguin Group


FICTION

2012

Dear George Clooney Please Marry My MomSusin NielsenTundra Books

Dust CityRobert Paul Weston

Puffin Canada /Penguin Group Canada

FanaticsWilliam Bell

Random House Canada /Doubleday Canada

Fly BoyEric Walters

Puffin Canada /Penguin Group Canada

★ Half Brother ★Kenneth Oppel

Harper Collins Canada

Haunting VioletAlyxandra Harvey

Walker & Company

Home TruthsJill MacLean

Dancing Cat Books/Cormorant Books

No Safe PlaceDeborah Ellis

Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press

Thunder Over KandaharSharon E. McKay and Rafal Gerszak

Annick Press

Torn from TroyPatrick BowmanRonsdale Press


2011

FICTION

NON-FICTION

Adventures on the Ancient Silk RoadPriscilla Galloway, Dawn Hunter

Annick Press

★ Bite of the Mango ★Mariatu Kamara

Annick Press

Charlie: A Home Child’s Life in CanadaBeryl YoungKey Porter

Green CareersJennifer Power Scott

Lobster Press

Guardian Angel HouseKathy Clark

Second Story Press

Journey to MarsJonathan Webb

Scholastic Canada, Ltd.

No Girls AllowedSusan Hughes, Willow Dawson

Kids Can Press

Tell Me WhyEric Walters

Random House

Watch This SpaceHadley Dyer, Marc Ngui

Kids Can Press

Whispers from the GhettosKathy Kacer and Sharon McKay

Penguin Group Canada

The Agency: A Spy in the HouseY. S. Lee

Random House

Ghost RideMarina Cohen

Dundurn

HauntedBarbara Haworth-Attard

HarperCollinsCanada

My Name Is Henry BibbAfua Cooper

Kids Can Press

NieveTerry Griggs

Biblioasis

★ Not Suitable for Family Viewing ★Vicki Grant

HarperCollinsCanada

Only in the MoviesWilliam Bell

Random House

POPGordon Korman

Scholastic Canada, Ltd.

The SummoningKelley ArmstrongRandom House

WoundedEric Walters

Penguin Group Canada


FICTION

2010

AfterHazel Hutchins

Smith, Bonappétit & Son

Greener GrassCaroline PignatRed Deer Press

Leaving FletchvilleRené Schmidt


Lunch with Lenin and Other StoriesDeborah Ellis


Night RunnerMax Turner

HarperCollinsCanada

The Shepherd’s GranddaughterAnne Laurel Carter

Groundwood Books

StarclimberKenneth Oppel

HarperCollinsCanada

Submarine OutlawPhilip Roy

Ronsdale Press

War BrothersSharon E. Mckay

Penguin Group (Canada)

★ Word Nerd ★Susin NielsenTundra Books


2009

FICTION

NON-FICTION

At Vimy RidgeHugh Brewster

Scholastic Canada Ltd

Canadian Boys Who Rocked the WorldTanya Lloyd KyiWalrus Books

Dangerous CrossingsAntonia Banyard

Annick Press

Desperate GloryJohn Wilson

Napoleon Publishing

Fire on the WaterWendy Lewis

James Lorimer & Company Ltd.

Healing Our WorldDavid Morley

Fitzhenry & Whiteside Ltd

Island of Hope and SorrowAnne RenaudLobster Press

The Kids Book of Canada at WarElizabeth MacLeod

Kids Can Press

★ Royal Murder ★Elizabeth MacLeod

Annick Press

SOS – Stories of SurvivalEd Butts

Tundra Books

The CastawaysIain Lawrence

Delacorte Press

EggheadCaroline PignatRed Deer Press

Elijah of BuxtonChristopher Paul CurtisScholastic Canda Ltd

FrostNicole LuikenGreat Plains

Not Fair, ClareYvonne Prinz

Raincoast Books

★ Out of the Cold ★Norah McClintock

Scholastic Canada Ltd

PaybackJames Heneghan

Groundwood Books

A Perfect Gentle KnightKit Pearson

Penguin Group

Perilous PassageB.J. Bayle

Dundurn Press

Way Lies NorthJean Rae BaxterRonsdale Press


FICTION

2008

DarkwingKenneth OppelHarperCollins

Endymion SpringMatthew Skelton

Penguin

Gemini SummerIain Lawrence

Delacorte Press

Pirate’s PassageWilliam Gilkerson

Trumpeter

The Rise of the Golden CobraHenry T. AubinAnnick Press

★ Safe as Houses ★Eric Walters

Doubleday Canada

Sarah’s LegacyValerie Sherrard

Boardwalk/Dundurn Group

Skinnybones and the Wrinkle QueenGlen Huser

Groundwood Books

Stolen AwayChristopher Dinsdale

Napoleon & Company

Where Soldiers LieJohn Wilson

Key Porter Books


2007

FICTION

NON-FICTION

Alligator & Crocodile Rescue: Changing the Future for Endangered Wildlife

by Trish SnyderFirefly Books

The Blue Jean Book: The Story Behind the Seamsby Tanya Lloyd Kyi

Annick Press

In Your Face: The Culture of Beauty and YouShari GraydonAnnick Press

Into the World of the Dead: Astonishing Adventures in the Underworld

Michael BoughnAnnick Press

It’s Your Room: A Decorating Guide for Real KidsJanice Weaver, Frieda Wishinsky, and Claudia Dávila

Tundra Books

Jean Chrétien: The Scrapper Who Climbed His Way To The Top

Nate Hendley and Gabriel MorrisetteJackfruit Press

Money, Money, Money: Where It Comes From, How to Save It, Spend It and Make ItEve Drobot and Claudia Dávila

Maple Tree Press

Our Stories, Our Songs: African Children Talk About AIDS

Deborah EllisFitzhenry and Whiteside

Season of Rage: Hugh Burnett and the Struggle for Civil RightsJohn CooperTundra Books

★ Thieves!: Ten Stories of Surprising Heists, Comical Capers and Daring ★

Escapades Andreas Schroeder

Annick Press

Born to RockGordon Korman

Scholastic Canada

The Girls They Left BehindBernice Thurman HunterFitzhenry and Whiteside

The Isabel FactorGayle Friesen

Kids Can Press

Johnny Kellock Died TodayHadley Dyer


Megiddo’s ShadowArthur Slade


Not a Trace Series: A Chloe and Levesque Mystery

Norah McClintockScholastic Canada

The Plague. Feather and Bone: The Crow Chronicles

Clem MartiniKids Can Press

The Raintree RebellionJanet McNaughton

HarperCollins

Red GoodwinJohn Wilson

Ronsdale

★ We All Fall Down ★Eric Walters

Random House


FICTION

2006

After SylviaAlan Cumyn Groundwood

Blood BrothersMarilyn Halvorson


ConvictsIain Lawrence

Delacorte Press/Random House

From Charlie’s Point Of ViewRichard Scrimger

Tundra Books

GravesaversSheree Fitch

Doubleday Canada

GreeniesMyra Paperny


Lost Goat LaneRosa Jordan


Mercury ManTom Henighan Dundurn Press

★ Skybreaker ★Kenneth Oppel


Sower Of TalesRachna Gilmore



2005

FICTION

NON-FICTION

From Head to Toe: Bound Feet, Bathing Suits, and Other Bizarre and Beautiful Things

Janice Weaver and Francis Blake Tundra Books

I Remember Korea: Veterans Tell Their Stories of the Korean War, 1950-53

Linda Granfield Fitzhenry & Whiteside

Made You Look: How Advertising Works and Why You Should Know

Shari Graydon and Warren Clark Annick

★ Scams! ★Andreas Schroeder

Annick Press

Wild Science: Amazing Encounters Between Animals and the People Who Study Them

Victoria Miles Raincoast

Working Like a Dog: The Story of Working Dogs Through History

Gena K. Gorrell Tundra

A Different Kind of BeautySylvia McNicoll


★ Airborn ★Kenneth OppelHarperCollins

Dead and GoneNorah McClintockScholastic Canada

The Heaven ShopDeborah Ellis


The MobClem Martini

Kids Can

Nobody’s ChildMarsha Forchuk Skrypuch

Dundurn Press

PeacekeepersDianne Linden

Coteau

The Princess PawnMaggie L. Wood

Sumach

Sister to the WolfMaxine Trottier

Kids Can

StitchesGlen Huser

Groundwood


2004

Parvana’s JourneyDeborah Ellis

Groundwood Books

The Dirt EatersDennis FoonAnnick Press

In Spite of Killer Bees Julie JohnstonTundra Books

The Buccaneers Iain Lawrence

Delacourte Press

Waiting for Sarah Bruce McBay and James Heneghan

Orca

★ Hit and Run ★Norah McClintock

Scholastic

Charlie Wilcox’s Great War Sharon McKayPenguin Group

An Earthly Knight Janet McNaughton

HarperCollins

On Wings of a DragonCora Taylor


Run Eric Walters

Penguin Group

2003

The Carved Box Gillian Chan

Kids Can Press

City of the Dead Sharon StewartRed Deer Press

Firewing Kenneth OppelHarper Collins

Flood James Heneghan

Groundwood Books

Fractures Budge WilsonPenguin Books

The Goodfellow Chronicles: The Sacred SealJ.C. Mills

Key Porter Books

Irish Chain Barbara Haworth-Attard

Harper Collins

★ Losing Forever ★ Gayle Friesen

Kids Can Press

Out of the Ashes: A Shelby Belgarden MysteryValerie Sherrard

Boardwalk Books

Saving Jasey Diane TullsonOrca Books


2002

A Bushel of Light Troon Harrison


Across the Steel RiverTed StenhouseKids Can Press

Bone Beds of the Badlands Shane PeacockPuffin Canada

Bully Boys Eric Walters

Puffin Canada

By the Standing Stone Maxine Trottier


★ Clara’s War ★Kathy Kacer

Second Story Press

DustArthur Slade

Harper Trophy Canada

StonesWilliam BellSeal Books

Whisperings of MagicKarleen Bradford


Whose Side Are You On?Betty Fitzpatrick Dorion

Coteau Books

2001

The Breadwinner Deborah EllisGroundwood

Men of StoneGayle Friesen

Kids Can Press

Raspberry House BluesLinda Holeman

Tundra

Storm WarningMonica HughesHarper Collins

The WreckersIain Lawrence

Delacorte Press

Charlie WilcoxSharon McKayStoddart Kids

Over the EdgeNorah McClintock

Scholastic

The Secret Under My SkinJanet McNaughton

Harper Collins

★ Rebound ★Eric Walters

Stoddart Kids.

The Boy in the Burning HouseTim Wynne-Jones

Groundwod


2000

The Sunflower DiaryLillian Boraks-Nemetz

University of Toronto Press

Alone At Ninety FootKatherine Holubitsky

Orca

★ What They Don’t Know ★Anita HorrocksStoddart Kids

The Story BoxMonica HughesHarper Collins

Touch Of The ClownGlen Huser

Groundwood Books

Dahling, If You Luv Me Would You Please Please Smile

Rukhsana KhanStoddart Kids

Password: MurderNorah McClintock

Scholastic

DaughterIshbel Moore

Kids Can Press

SunwingKenneth OppelHarper Collins

The Mystery of Ireland’s EyeShane Peacock

Viking

1999

ZackWilliam BellDoubleday

Angels Turn Their BacksMargaret BuffieKids Can Press

★ Janey’s Girl ★Gayle Friesen

Kids Can Press

Mercy’s BirdsLinda HolemanTundra Books

Sins of the FatherNorah McClintockScholastic Canada

Make or Break SpringJanet McNaughtonTuckamore Books

Awake and DreamingKit PearsonPuffin Books

War of the EaglesEric Walters

Orca

Brad’s UniverseMary Woodbury

Orca

Stephen FairTim Wynne-Jones

Groundwood


1998

Stranger at BayDon Aker Stoddart

A Light in the DunesMartha Attema

Orca

No Fixed AddressMaureen Bayless

Scholastic

What’s Tuesday?Mitzi Dale

Groundwood/Douglas and McIntyre

Uncle RonaldBrian Doyle

Groundwood/Douglas & McIntyre

Back of BeyondSarah Ellis

Groundwood/Douglas & McIntyre

Promise SongLinda HolemanTundra Books

Moonkid and PrometheusPaul Kropp

Stoddart

★ After the War ★Carol MatasScholastic

The Body in the BasementNorah McClintock

Scholastic

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