CanLit for LittleCanadians: Awards: MYRCA

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Wednesday, 17 June 2020

2020 Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Awards: Finalists and Winners

This week the Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Awards, known as MYRCA, announced the winners of their two prizes, the Sundogs, for readers in Grades 4-6, and the Northern Lights for readers in Grades 7-9. Here are the nominated titles and the winners and honour books.

Congratulations to all nominated authors and illustrators, and to the young readers for their stellar selections.

MYRCA SUNDOGS Nominees:

Coop the Great
Written by Larry Verstraete
Yellow Dog

Crush
Written and illustrated by Svetlana Chmakova
Yen Press

Dragons in a Bag
Written by Zetta Elliott
Random House

Elephant Secret
Written by Eric Walters
Penguin Random House Canada

Inkling
Written by Kenneth Oppel
HarperCollins

The Journey Forward: Novellas on Reconciliation
Written by Monique Gray Smith and Richard Van Camp
McKellar & Martin Publishing Group

Miles to Go
Written by Beryl Young
Wandering Fox

Missing Mike
Written by Shari Green
Pajama Press

Mucus Mayhem (The Almost Epic Squad)
Written by Kevin Sylvester
Illustrated by Britt Wilson
Scholastic Canada

Wicked Nix
Written by Lena Coakley
HarperCollins

AND THE WINNER IS...

Crush

Written by Svetlana Chmakova

Yen Press

Honour Book:
Coop the Great
Written by Larry Verstraete
Yellow Dog

MYRCA NORTHERN LIGHTS Nominees:

A World Below
Written by Wesley King
Simon & Schuster

Don’t Tell the Enemy
Written by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch
Scholastic Canad

The Strange and Deadly Portraits of Bryony Gray
Written by E. Latimer
Tundra Books

Ebb & Flow
Written by Heather Smith
Kids Can Press

Fake Blood
Written by Whitney Gardner
Simon & Schuster for Young Readers

The Journey of Little Charlie
Written by Christopher Paul Curtis
Scholastic

No Fixed Address
Written by Susin Nielsen
Tundra Books

Surviving the City
Written by Tasha Spillett
Illustrated by Natasha Donovan
Portage and Main Press

Pulse Point
Written by Colleen Nelson and Nancy Chappell-Pollack
Great Plains Publications

Sanctuary
Written by Caryn Lix
Simon Pulse

AND THE WINNER IS...

No Fixed Address

Written by Susin Nielsen

Tundra Books

Honour Book:

Fake Blood
Written by Whitney Gardner
Simon & Schuster for Young Readers

Head to the MYRCA website for full details and to check on the complete archive of nominees and winners.

Friday, 29 September 2017

2017 MYRCA winner and honour books announced

Last March and April, young Manitoba readers ages 10-14 voted for their favourite book from eighteen nominated titles for the Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Awards (MYRCA) The results announced in April were just given out today at the 27th Annual MYRCA ceremony. Though there can only be one winner and two honour books selected, I believe all nominees are winners and should be acknowledged as so. So congratulations everyone!

The 2017 winning title, as voted by young Manitoba readers of ages 10 to 14, is

The Dogs

by Allan Stratton

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Congratulations to the readers' two Honour Books:

The Blackthorn Key
by Kevin Sands

MiNRS

by Kevin Sylvester

CONGRATULATIONS

to all Winners

of this literacy awards program:
authors, illustrators, publishers and readers!

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.