Rocky Mountain Book Award 2012 Winner Announced!

For the past month, readers in Grades 4-7 have voted for their favourite book from twenty fiction and non-fiction nominees and the results tallied and announced yesterday. 

The Winner of the 2012 Rocky Mountain Book Award Gold Medal is...

Dear George Clooney, Please Marry My Mom 

by Susin Nielsen 

Tundra Books

978-0-88776-977-1

229 pp.

Ages 10-14

2010 

--> After Violet's TV-director dad leaves Vancouver and reshapes his life into that of a rich LA bigshot with a beautiful actress-wife and perfect twin daughters, he doesn't see the wreckage he has left behind: Violet's younger sister begins bed-wetting; Violet's mother, a stylist, starts dating loser after loser; and Violet is seething with such anger that it compels her to make abominable and hilarious decisions, including looking to match her mom up with George Clooney, the actor.

First two runners-up are:

Burn  

by Alma Fullerton

Dancing Cat Books/Cormorant

978-1-897151-95-2

255 pp.

Ages 10-13

2010

Tower of Treasure: Three Thieves 

by Scott Chantler

Kids Can Press

978-1-55453-414-2

978-1-55453-415-9

112 pp.

Ages 9-12

2010 

Congratulations to the winners and all nominated titles.