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YA Canadian Book Award

YA Canadian Book Award
This award recognizes an author of an outstanding English language Canadian work of fiction.
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Wondrous Strange
by Lesley Livingston

 

Seventeen-year-old Kelley Winslow finally lands the lead role of the fairy queen Titania in a community production of Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream, if only she could stop messing up during rehearsals! While rehearsing her lines privately at Central Park, she meets Sonny Flannery, a guard of the Samhain Gate, the doorway between the mortal world and the Faerie’s Otherworld. Sonny opens Kelley’s eyes when he discovers that she is the target of the dark but powerful forces from the Faerie realm.

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Poster Boy
by Dede Crane

Sixteen-year-old Gray Fallon is having the time of his life. Right up until he finds out that his younger sister is diagnosed with cancer. This changes Gray’s perspective on life. He realizes how his lifestyle may be slowly killing him and his family. He becomes almost obsessive in his search for solutions, an undertaking that proves to more than he can handle.

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Come, Thou Tortoise
by Jessica Grant

Audrey knows that her life is up for a new twist when she has to leave her beloved tortoise, Winnifred behind in Portland, Oregon. She is flying home so that she can be with her comatose father in St. John’s. She misses the chance to say good-bye to her father and she remembers him as she relives a series of her childhood memories. The story is told by Audrey and by Winnifred.

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Not Suitable for Family Viewing
by Vicki Grant

Robin is considered the luckiest girl in the world. She can have everything she asks for because her mom is an internationally famous talk-show host, Mimi Schwartz. By accident, Robin finds an old piece of memorabilia in her mom’s immaculate bedroom. This sets Robin on a road trip that she will never forget!

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Haunted
by Barbara Haworth-Attard

Def has a rare gift of “The Sight.” This allows her to see the spirits from the afterlife but also to fully experience the details of their deaths. The morning some bones are discovered on her favourite mountain, the feeling of doom follows her. That feeling is further confirmed as the mystery develops.

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Girl on the Other Side
by Deborah Kerbel

A story told by two girls whose lives are at opposite ends of the high school social spectrum. Tabby Freeman is rich and pretty. She is surrounded by friends (who take advantage of her) while her home life is falling apart. Lora Froggett is smart but is the main target of bullies. While trying to balance her school and work, she is also trying to hide the truth about her family life. Both girls never imagined being in each other’s company but their secrets and sufferings may bring them closer.

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The Gryphon Project
by Carrie Mac

Mac describes a place where death no longer exists as long as you still have a recon left. But reconning can only take place if the death is deemed an accident and approved by the governing body, Chrysalis. When Phoenix’s popular daredevil brother Gryphon dies in a horrifying incident that is deemed a suicide, she must find a way to secure his recon.

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Dragon Seer
by Janet McNaughton

After being abandoned by her heartbroken father, Madoca has been working as a slave. At the annual Divination gathering, Madoca is chosen as the next dragon seer, the one who will look after the mystical creatures and will learn their magical stories. She finds herself on a journey trying to make sense of her destiny and to find a way to save her beloved dragons.

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Vanishing Girl
by Shane Peacock

Young Sherlock Holmes has learned a lot after solving two high profile cases. So when a young wealthy socialite mysteriously disappears, Holmes knows the case is deeper than what it seems. However, things are getting complicated when a young boy’s life depends on the recovery of this socialite and when his already fragile relationship with Irene Doyle is also at stake. Most importantly, Holmes needs to figure out whether he is involved in this twisted case for himself or for the greater good!

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The Hunchback Assignments
by Arthur Slade

Modo is a hunchback who has the ability to transform his appearance. He has been raised as a secret agent by Mr. Socrates, his benefactor. Modo does not experience the outside world until he turns 14, when Mr. Socrates leaves him at a corner of London one afternoon. In order to survive, Modo applies the skills he has learned and finds himself involved in uncovering a monstrous plan like no other.

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