Monday, 10 April 2017

2017 MYRCA nominees

This new list of reading choices for Manitoba's young readers comes courtesy of the Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Awards (MYRCA) program which annual selects 15 to 18 Canadian novels written in English for young readers in Grades 5-8.  Those young people who have read or heard a minimum of 3 nominated titles have been voting for their favourite title since the end of March. Voting ends this week and the winning title and honour books will be announced in May and celebrated at an awards ceremony in the fall.

This is the shortlist of nominated titles for the 2017 MYRCA.

Congratulations to the authors, illustrators and publishers of these eighteen nominees for their inclusion on this comprehensive list.



A Pocket Full of Murder
by R. J. Anderson
Atheneum Books for Young Readers

Fragile Bones
by Lorna Schultz Nicholson
Clockwise Press

Ghost Most Foul
by Patti Grayson
Coteau Books

Last Shot
by David Skuy
Scholastic Canada

MiNRS
by Kevin Sylvester
Margaret K. McElderry Books

Prison Boy
by Sharon E. McKay
Annick Press

Scenes from the Epic Life of a Total Genius
by Stacey Matson
Scholastic Canada

Seven Dead Pirates
by Linda Bailey
Tundra Books

Speechless
by Jennifer Mook-Sang
Scholastic Canada

Stones on a Grave
by Kathy Kacer
Orca Book Publishers

Tank and Fizz: The Case of the Slime Stampede
by Liam O’Donnell and Mike Deas
Orca Book Publishers

The Blackthorn Key
by Kevin Sands
Aladdin

The Choice
by Kathy Clark
Second Story Press

The Disappearance of Emily H.
by Barrie Summy
Delacorte Books

The Dogs
by Allan Stratton
Scholastic Canada

The Scorpion Rules
by Erin Bow
Margaret K. McElderry Books

Transferral
by Kate Blair
Dancing Cat Books


We Are All Made of Molecules
by Susin Nielsen
Tundra Books

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