Hackmatack 2012/2013 Shortlists

Atlantic Canada's Hackmatack Children's Choice Book Award program will soon see young readers of ages 9 to 12 years reading from four lists of ten nominated titles: English Fiction, English Non-Fiction, French Fiction and French Non-Fiction.  The shortlists for the 2012-2013 Hackmatack Awards were announced this spring, with reading scheduled to take place from September to March, followed by voting in February through March.

Here are the 2012-2013 Hackmatack Award shortlists:

2012-2013 English Fiction Shortlist

26 Tips For Surviving Grade 6
by Catherine Austen
James Lorimer and Company

2011

Addy's Race
by Debby Waldman
Orca Book Publishers

2011

Banjo of Destiny
by Cary Fagan
Groundwood Books

2011

Black Dog Dream Dog

by Michelle Superle
Tradewind Books

2010

Dalen and Gole: Scandal in Port Angus
by Mike Deas
Orca Book Publishers

2011

Deadly Voyage: RMS Titanic
by Hugh Brewster
Scholastic Canada

2011

Emily Finds a Dragon
by Paul Burns
Dragon Dreams Inc.

2011

Ghosts of the Pacific
by Philip Roy
Ronsdale Press

2011

The Magnificent Mario
by Mike Leonetti
North Winds Press

2011

Sinking Deeper: Or My Questionable (Possibly Heroic) Decision to Invent a Sea Monster
by Steve Vernon
Nimbus Publishing

2011

2012-2013 English Non-fiction Shortlist

50 Poisonous Questions
by Tanya Lloyd Kyi
Annick Press

2011

Adventures of a Trapper Boy
by Suzanne K. Edwards
General Store Publishing House

2011

Case Files: 40 Murders and Mysteries Solved by Science
by Larry Verstraete
Scholastic Canada Ltd

2011

Emily Included: A True Story
by Kathleen McDonnell
Second Story Press

2011

Explorers Who Made It...Or Died Trying
by Frieda Wishinsky
Scholastic Canada Ltd

2011

 

From Then to Now: A Short History of the World
by Christopher Moore
Tundra Books

2011

Off to Class
by Susan Hughes
Owlkids

2011

Selby the Lobster
by Don Downer
Cape Breton University Press

2011

Shipwrecks, Monsters, and Mysteries of the Great Lakes
by Ed Butts
Tundra Books

2010

Space Tourism
by Peter McMahon
Kids Can Press

2011

Sélections 2012-2013 - Roman français

La casquette de Simon
par Stéphane Laroche
Éditions de la Paix

2011

L’école des gars
par Maryse Peyskens
Dominique et Compagnie

2011

Il était une … dernière fois
par Richard Petit
Z’ailées

2011

Ma directrice est gentille mais… tellement toquée!
par Danielle Simard
FouLire

2011

Mardi, jour d’Halloween
par Danielle Simard
Soulières

2011

Morgan le chevalier sans peur
par Corinne De Vailly
Goélette

2011

Mystère au Mont Bleu
par Tina Landry
Francophonie

2010

Le mystère de Blandy-les-tours
par Arianne Gagnon-Roy
Francophonie

2011

Terreur sur la ligne d’acier
par Anne Bernard Lenoir
Courte échelle

2011

Les Zintrépides
par Alain M. Bergeron
Éditions Michel Quintin

2011

Sélections 2012-2013 - Documentaire français

Les avions : comment ça marche
par Catherine Girard-Audet
Les Malins

2011

Les Bleues de New York
par Maxim Cyr et Karine Gottot
Éditions Michel Quintin

2011

 

Les porcs-épics
par Alain M. Bergeron; Sampar and Michel Quintin
Éditions Michel Quintin, 2011

Dian Fossey
par Johanne Ménard
Éditions Michel Quintin

2011

 

Dominique Demers
par Christine Ouin
Goélette

2011

Laisse-moi t’expliquer la dyslexie
par Marianne Tremblay
Midi trente

2011

Léon et les inventions
par Annie Groovie
Courte échelle

2010

 

Marie Rollet : Mère de la Nouvelle-France
par Sonia K Laflamme
Isatis

2011

 

Le recyclage : comment ça marche
par Catherine Girard-Audet
Les Malins

2011

 

Samuel de Champlain
par Johanne Ménard
Éditions Michel Quintin

2011

Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic

At the end of June, the Sunburst Award Society announced the shortlists for its two categories of Sunburst Awards for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic.  

These awards, presented annually in the categories of Adult and Young Adult speculative fiction, aim to recognize the novels or book-length collections of Canadian writers (citizens or landed immigrants) of fantasy, with a cash award of $1000 (Can) and a Sunburst medallion. 

 

Phyllis Gotlieb (1926-2009), one of the first published authors of contemporary Canadian science fiction, has been honoured with the naming of this award after her first novel, Sunburst, published in 1964 by Gold Medal.

The winners of the awards will be announced and presented in the fall in Toronto.  The majority of the nominees have been reviewed here at CanLit for LittleCanadians, and I urge you to read up on this great fantastic fiction before we are blessed with a new crop of exceptional speculative fiction from our Canadian YA writers.

 

Ultraviolet

by R. J. Anderson

Carolrhoda Lab

978-0-7613-7408-4

303 pp.

Ages 14+

2011 

Reviewed on January 9, 2012

 

All Good Children

by Catherine Austen

Orca Book Publishers

978-1-55469-824-0

300 pp.

Ages 14+

2011

Reviewed on January 3, 2012

The Summer of Permanent Wants

by Jamieson Findlay

Doubleday Canada

978-0-385-66928-3

241 pp.

Ages 10-14

2011

 

The Dead Kid Detective Agency

by Evan Munday

 ECW Press

987-1-55022-971-4

301 pp.

Ages 12-15

2011

 

Blood Red Road

by Moira Young

Doubleday Canada

978-0-385-67183-5

459 pp.

Ages 14+

2011

Reviewed on December 27, 2012

2012/2013 Red Cedar nominees announced

The Red Cedar Book Award (a.k.a. B.C.'s Young Readers' Choice Award) only recently announced its award winners for 2011/2012 but they promptly announced the two short-lists of nominated titles for the upcoming year, though not officially launched until November.  Readers in Grades 4 through 7 will have until next spring to read the books to prepare themselves for voting in April.  The winners are announced annually in May.

Here are the 2012/2013 short-lists for the Red Cedar Fiction and Information Book Awards:

 

Ice Storm

by Penny Draper

Coteau Books

2011

Racing Home

by Adele Dueck

Coteau Books

2011

That Boy Red

by Rachna Gilmore

Simon & Schuster

2011

To Stand on My Own: the Polio Epidemic Diary of Noreen Robertson, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, 1937

by Barbara Howarth-Attard
Scholastic Canada
2010
 

Saving Arm Pit

by Natalie Hyde
Fitzhenry & Whiteside
2011




 

Count Me In

by Sara Leach
Orca Books
2011

Exiles From the War: The War Guest Diary of Charlotte Mary Twiss, Guelph, Ontario 1940

by Jean Little
Scholastic Canada
2010

The Listening Tree

by Celia Barker Lottridge
Fitzhenry & Whiteside
2010

Dragon Seer’s Gift

by Janet McNaughton
HarperCollins Canada
2011

Amos Daragon: The Mask Wearer

by Bryan Perro
Random House Canada
2011

Nutz!

by Virginia Frances Schwartz
Tradewind Books
2011

Catboy

by Eric Walters
Orca Books
2011

Mathemagic!: Number Tricks

by Lynda Colgan
Illustrated by Jane Kurisu

Harness Horses, Bucking Broncos & Pit Ponies: A History of Horse Breeds

by Jeff Crosby and Shelley Ann Jackson
Tundra Books
2011

Last Airlift: A Vietnamese Orphan’s Rescue from War

by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch
Pajama Press
2011

Spy, Spy Again: True Tales of Failed Espionage

by Tina Holdcroft
Annick Press
2011

Off to Class: Incredible and Unusual Schools Around the World

by Susan Hughes
Owlkids
2011

The White Ballets: Swan Lake, Giselle, and La Bayadere

by Rajka Kupesic
Tundra Books
2011

The Sea Wolves: Living Wild in the Great Bear Rainforest

by Ian McAllister and Nicholas Read
Orca Books
2010

Emily Included: A True Story

by Kathleen McDonnell
Second Story Press
2011

Hockey Trailblazers

by Nicole Mortillaro
Scholastic Canada
2011

Totally Human: Why We Look and Act the Way We Do
by Cynthia Pratt Nicholson
Illustrated by Dianne Eastman
Kids Can Press
2011

Highway of Heroes

by Kathy Stinson
Fitzhenry & Whiteside
2010

Shannen and the Dream For a School

by Janet Wilson
Second Story Press
2011

Our Earth: How Kids are Saving the Planet

by Janet Wilson
Second Story Press
2010

Explorers Who Made It... Or Died Trying

by Frieda Wishinsky
Scholastic Canada
2011