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.