2016 Sunburst Awards for Excellence in Canadian Lit of the Fantastic: YA nominees and winner

Earlier this year, the Sunburst Award Society announced the shortlists for its three 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, plus a new category of Short Story, aim to recognize the speculative fiction of Canadian writers (citizens or landed immigrants), with a cash award and a Sunburst medallion. Winners were announced in September.

Here were this year's nominees in the

Young Adult category:

An Inheritance of Ashes 
by Leah Bobet
Scholastic Canada

Sight Unseen
by David Carroll
Scholastic Canada

The Unquiet
by Mikaela Everett
HarperCollins

The Nest 
by Kenneth Oppel
HarperCollins

Boo
by Neil Smith
Knopf

This year's 

WINNER 

in the Young Adult category 

is


An Inheritance of Ashes

by Leah Bobet
Scholastic Canada
978-0544281110
388 pp.
Ages 12+
2015


Reviewed here