Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Awards 2013 Nominees announced

The Manitoba School Library Association marked the International Year of Literacy, 1990, with the implementation of a literacy program aimed at promoting literacy for children of ages 10 to 14 years of age.

The Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Awards (MYRCA) program presents 15 to 18 Canadian novels written in English for the targeted young readers.  Those young people who have read or heard a minimum of 3 nominated titles vote for their favourite title in April.  The winning title and honour books are announced in May and celebrated at an awards ceremony in October.

This week's press release which announced the winners for 2012 also announced the shortlist of nominated titles for the 2013 MYRCA.  Congratulations to the authors and publishers of these eighteen nominees:

Against All Odds 
by Natale Ghent
HarperCollins
227 pp.
Ages 8-12

The Bedmas Conspiracy 

by Deborah Sherman

Fitzhenry & Whiteside

172 pp.

Ages 8-11

Blood Red Road 
by Moira Young
Doubleday
459 pp.
Ages 14+ 

Box of Shocks

by Chris McMahen
Orca
160 pp.
Ages 9-12

The Case of the Missing Deed
by Ellen Schwartz
Tundra
189 pp.
Ages 8-12

Dragon Seer's Gift 

by Janet McNaughton
HarperCollins
282 pp.
Ages 10+ 

The Dragon Turn: The Boy Sherlock Holmes, His 5th Case
by Shane Peacock
Tundra
220 pp.
Ages 10-14

Encore Edie 

by Annabel Lyon
Puffin Canada
163 pp.
Ages 9-12

End of Days
by Eric Walters
Doubleday
316 pp.
Ages 10-15

Fly Boy

by Eric Walters
Puffin Canada
192 pp.
Ages 8-12

Ice Storm (Disaster Strikes #6)
by Penny Draper
Coteau Books
198 pp.
Ages 9-13

Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes

by Jonathan Auxier
Puffin Canada
381 pp.
Ages 10-13

This Dark Endeavour: The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein
by Kenneth Oppel
HarperCollins
298 pp.
Ages 12+

The Tiffin

by Mahtab Narsimhan
Dancing Cat Books
190 pp.
Ages 9-12

Timber Wolf
by Caroline Pignat
Red Deer Press
206 pp.
Ages 11-14

True Blue

by Deborah Ellis
Pajama Press
229 pp.
Ages 11-14

Undergrounders
by David Skuy
Scholastic Canada
194 pp.
Ages 11-14

Witchlanders

by Lena Coakley
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
416 pp.
Ages 12+ 

Hackmatack Children's Choice Book Award

Another Canadian young readers' book award?  You bet!

If you're a young reader, 9 to 12 years of age, living in Atlantic Canada, then you're fortunate to be able to share your favourite reading with others through the annual Hackmatack Children's Choice Book Award literary program.  This program, designed to promote literacy and Canadian books, provides four lists of ten nominated titles annually: English Fiction, English Non-Fiction, French Fiction and French Non-Fiction.  Nominations are announced in the spring with reading taking place from September to March, voting before April, and then announcement of the winning titles in April or May.

Young readers will soon be voting for their favourite reads from the 2011-2012 Hackmatack Children's Choice Book Award nominations (see lists below) with the winners announced at a ceremony on April 27, 2012 in Moncton, New Brunswick. 

2011-2012 Hackmatack Award nominees

ENGLISH FICTION The Adventures of Jack Lime  by James Leck  The Dread Crew: Pirates of the Backwoods by Kate Inglis The Gnome’s Eye by Anna Kerz Kayak Combat  by Eric Howling Libby’s Got the Beat  by Robert Rayner  Jacob Two-Two on the High Seas by Cary Fagan Prisoner of Dieppe: World War II by Hugh Brewster Pit Pony   by Joyce Barkhouse Tumbleweed Skies by Valerie Sherrard Zach & Zoe: Bully and the Beagle by Kristin Butcher

ENGLISH NON-FICTION

Animals That Changed the World

by Keltie Thomas

Canada from Above

by Heather Patterson

Canada’s Wars: An Illustrated History

by Jonathan Webb

Don’t Touch That Toad & Other Strange Things Adults Tell You

by Catherine Rondina

Fatty Legs: A True Story

by Christy Jordan-Fenton and Margaret Pokiak-Fenton

Case Closed? Nine Mysteries Unlocked by Modern Science

by Susan Hughes

The Hilarious History of Hockey

by Helaine Becker

Highway of Heroes

by Kathy Stinson

New Brunswick Kids Cook

By Marilyn Lohnes

Wild Ones

by Paddy Muir

 

ROMAN FRANÇAIS

Bienvenue à Rocketville

par Danielle Boulianne

Catastrophe en Guadeloupe

par Camille Bouchard

Le combat des caboches

par Marie Beauchamp

L’étrange affaire du 413

par Nadya Larouche

Les livres mènent loin!

par Emilie Boucher

Du soccer extrême

par François Gravel

Le projet Persée

par Sophie Bérubé

Livreur express

par Véronique Drouin

Ton journal intime Zone Frousse

par Richard Petit

Vlad et moi et les nids-de-poule

par Brigitte Huppen

DOCUMENTAIRE FRANÇAIS 

L’astronomie facile et amusante

par Jean-Pierre Urbain

Le cheval

par Sylvie Roberge et Jacques Pasquet

Citron bleu et zeste de carotte

par Céline Malepart

Marco Polo

par Johanne Ménard

Les Marmottes

par Alain Bergeron; Sampar; Michel Quintin

Julie Payette

par Christine Ouin et Louise Pratte

Le petit livre des affaires dégueulasses

par Stéphanie C. Dubois

Mon premier livre de contes du Canada

par Corinne De Vailly

Secrets des fleurs de bord de routes

par Marie D’Amours

Ti-Jean-Tête-d’Or

par Melvin Gallant

The 2012-2013 Hackmatack Children's Choice Book Award nominations will be announced this spring.