Monday, 2 July 2012

2012/2013 B. C.'s Stellar Award nominees announced

The next reading list for British Columbia's Teen Readers' Choice Award, the Stellar Book Award, is ready.  After the 2011/2012 winner was announced on May 30, 2012,  this short-list of nominees for the 2012/2013 Stellar Book Award was released.  BC teen readers of ages 13 to 19 have the opportunity to read, review, and discuss their reading, making sure to read a minimum of five titles before on-line voting opens in April. 

The nominees for the 2012/2013 Stellar Book Award include:


All Good Children 
by Catherine Austen
Orca Book Publishers
978-1-55469-824-0
300 pp.
Ages 14+
2011



 
Death Benefits 
by Sarah N. Harvey
Orca Book Publishers
978-1-55469-226-2
212 pp.
Ages 14-17
2010 



 
Once Every Never 
by Lesley Livingston
Puffin Canada
978-0-14-317795-1
302 pp.
Ages 12+
2011



 
My Beating Teenage Heart 
by C. K. Kelly Martin
Random House
978-0-385-67042-5
288 pp.
Ages 14-17
2011



 
Half Brother 
by Kenneth Oppel
HarperCollins
978-1-55468-812-8
377 pp.
Ages 12+
2010



 
This Dark Endeavour: 
The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein
by Kenneth Oppel
HarperCollins Canada
978-1-55468-339-0
298 pp.
Ages 12+
2011


 
Fishtailing 
by Wendy Phillips
Coteau Books
978-1-55050-411-8
196 pp.
Ages 14-17
2010



 
The Vampire Stalker 
by Alison Van Diepen
Scholastic Canada
978-0-545-28375-5
257 pp.
Ages 121-15
2011 



 
Just Deserts
by Eric Walters with Ray Zahab
Puffin Canada
978-0-143-17935-1
256 pp.
Ages 12-15
2011



 
Written in Blood 
by John Wilson
Orca Book Publishers
978-1-55469-270-5
157 pp.
Ages 10-14
2011 



 
Blood Red Road 
by Moira Young
Doubleday Canada
978-0-385-67183-5
459 pp.
Ages 14+
2011




Take advantage of this spectacular book list to direct your choices of what-youngCanLit-to-read-next.  Personally, I thought I had done fairly well keeping up with my reading but I now have five more titles to read.  Luckily, it's fairly certain that each of these titles is a great read.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Do you know when the current poster will come out? I've been watching for it but haven't seen it?
jharris@nelson.ca ( Teen Librarian, Nelson Public Library)