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