The Stellar Book Award 2011/2012 nominees and winner

British Columbia's Teen Readers' Choice Award, the Stellar Book Award, provides readers of ages 13 to 19 the opportunity to read, review, discuss and vote on their favourite CanLit reads from a list of selected nominated titles.

Teens throughout B.C. have from November to the following April/May to read a minimum of five titles from the nominated list.  On-line voting takes place in April and the winner of the Stellar Book Award is to be announced in May.  If the voting is very close, an Honour book is announced as well.

The nominees for the 2011/2012 Stellar Book Award include:

Shadow Boxing

by Sherie Posesorski

Coteau Books

262 pp.

Ages 12-15

2009

thinandbeautiful.com 

by Liane Shaw

Second Story Press

267 pp.

Ages 12+

2009

Dreamfire 

by Nicole Luiken

Great Plains

190 pp.

Ages 10-14

2009

Living Outside the Lines 

by Lesley Choyce

Red Deer Press

211 pp.

Ages13-17

2009

My Parents are Sex Maniacs 

by Robyn Harding

Annick Press

235 pp.

Ages 14-16

2009

Not Suitable for Family Viewing

by Vicki Grant

HarperTrophy Canada

289 pp.

Ages 12-15

2009

Wondrous Strange 

by Lesley Livingston

HarperCollins Canada

326 pp.

Ages 12-16

2008

Pop 

by Gordon Korman

Scholastic Canada

262 pp.

Ages 12-15

2010

The Gryphon Project 

by Carrie Mac

Penguin Canada

296 pp.

Ages 13-17

2009

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

by Alan Bradley

Anchor Canada/Random House

373 pp.

Ages 11+

2010

Swim the Fly 

by Don Calame

Candlewick Press/Random House

345 pp.

Ages 13-15

2009

The Uninvited 

by Tim Wynne-Jones

Candlewick Press/Random House Canada

351 pp.

Ages 15-18

2009

All sensational YA reads for our Canadian teens (and teens elsewhere with discerning tastes.)

This year, the winning title was apparently announced on May 30, although it was virtually impossible to locate any announcement of the winner.  As of June 18, the Stellar Book Award site had not been updated since May 2, still informing readers that it was time to vote!  A notice in the Summer 2012 issue of YAACING, the newsletter of the Young Adult & Children's Services Section of British Columbia Library Association, announced the winner of the 2012 Stellar Book Award as . . .

The Gryphon Project

by Carrie Mac

Penguin Canada

296 pp.

Ages 13-17

2009 

 In a futuristic society where the elite are permitted to return from the dead three times (and others twice or never), teenaged athlete Gryphon seems to be taking full advantage of his status, or so his younger sister, Phoenix, believes.  But, when the inevitable happens, Phoenix needs to determine what really happened to Gryphon and why.

Congratulations, Carrie Mac, 

on this readers' choice award from B.C.