Monday 18 June 2012

The Stellar Book Award 2011/2012 nominees and winner


British Columbia's Teen Readers' Choice Award, the Stellar Book Award, provides readers of ages 13 to 19 the opportunity to read, review, discuss and vote on their favourite CanLit reads from a list of selected nominated titles.

Teens throughout B.C. have from November to the following April/May to read a minimum of five titles from the nominated list.  On-line voting takes place in April and the winner of the Stellar Book Award is to be announced in May.  If the voting is very close, an Honour book is announced as well.

The nominees for the 2011/2012 Stellar Book Award include:

Shadow Boxing
by Sherie Posesorski
Coteau Books
262 pp.
Ages 12-15
2009
thinandbeautiful.com 
by Liane Shaw
Second Story Press
267 pp.
Ages 12+
2009

Dreamfire 
by Nicole Luiken
Great Plains
190 pp.
Ages 10-14
2009

Living Outside the Lines 
by Lesley Choyce
Red Deer Press
211 pp.
Ages13-17
2009

My Parents are Sex Maniacs 
by Robyn Harding
Annick Press
235 pp.
Ages 14-16
2009

Not Suitable for Family Viewing
by Vicki Grant
HarperTrophy Canada
289 pp.
Ages 12-15
2009


Wondrous Strange 
by Lesley Livingston
HarperCollins Canada
326 pp.
Ages 12-16
2008






Pop 
by Gordon Korman
Scholastic Canada
262 pp.
Ages 12-15
2010
The Gryphon Project 
by Carrie Mac
Penguin Canada
296 pp.
Ages 13-17
2009

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
by Alan Bradley
Anchor Canada/Random House
373 pp.
Ages 11+
2010
Swim the Fly 
by Don Calame
Candlewick Press/Random House
345 pp.
Ages 13-15
2009
The Uninvited 
by Tim Wynne-Jones
Candlewick Press/Random House Canada
351 pp.
Ages 15-18
2009






All sensational YA reads for our Canadian teens (and teens elsewhere with discerning tastes.)

This year, the winning title was apparently announced on May 30, although it was virtually impossible to locate any announcement of the winner.  As of June 18, the Stellar Book Award site had not been updated since May 2, still informing readers that it was time to vote!  A notice in the Summer 2012 issue of YAACING, the newsletter of the Young Adult & Children's Services Section of British Columbia Library Association, announced the winner of the 2012 Stellar Book Award as . . .

The Gryphon Project
by Carrie Mac
Penguin Canada
296 pp.
Ages 13-17
2009 
 In a futuristic society where the elite are permitted to return from the dead three times (and others twice or never), teenaged athlete Gryphon seems to be taking full advantage of his status, or so his younger sister, Phoenix, believes.  But, when the inevitable happens, Phoenix needs to determine what really happened to Gryphon and why.

Congratulations, Carrie Mac, 
on this readers' choice award from B.C.

No comments: