Thursday 5 July 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

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