The White Pine Award is one of the annual literature Forest of Reading awards sponsored by the Ontario Library Association (OLA).[1]
White Pine Award | |
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Awarded for | Awarded to various outstanding works of Canadian young adult literature (Grades 9-12: ages 14-18) |
Country | Canada |
Presented by | Ontario Library Association |
First awarded | 2002 |
Website | http://www.accessola.com/ola/bins/content_page.asp?cid=92-263 |
Every year, 10 books are nominated for the award and students vote their favourite book.[2]
The White Pine Nonfiction Award was discontinued after 2014.[3]
In order to vote for the winner, one must register at the local branch library and read a minimum of 5 of the 10 nominated books. The program ends in April (of that year), with the voting day usually on April 18. Based on student voting across the province, the most popular book is then selected and author is honored with the White Pine Award. There are usually about 10 different nominees for the award every year.
Year | Author | Title | Publisher | Ref. |
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2002 | Shelley Hrdlitschka | Dancing Naked | Orca Book Publishers | |
2003 | Gillian Chan | A Foreign Field | Kids Can Press | |
2004 | Don Aker | The First Stone | HarperCollins | |
2005 | Marnelle Tokio | More Than You Can Chew | Tundra Books | |
2006 | Charles De Lint | The Blue Girl | Viking | |
2007 | Eric Walters | Shattered | Viking/Penguin | |
2008 | Martine Leavitt | Keturah & Lord Death | Red Deer Press | |
2009 | Cory Doctorow | Little Brother | Tor Books/H. B. Fenn and Company | |
2010 | Pam Bustin | Mostly Happy | Thistledown Press | |
2011 | Richard Scarsbrook | The Monkeyface Chronicles | Thistledown Press | |
2012 | Kelley Armstrong | The Gathering | Random House Canada/Doubleday Canada | |
2013 | Jeyn Roberts | Dark Inside | Simon & Schuster | |
2014 | Lisa Harrington | Live to Tell | Dancing Cat Books | |
2015 | Eve Silver | Rush | HarperCollins Canada | |
2016 | Jeyn Roberts | The Bodies We Wear | Knopf Books/Penguin Random House Canada | [5][6] |
2017 | S. J. Laidlaw | Fifteen Lanes | Tundra Books | [7] |
2018 | Danielle Younge-Ullman | Everything Beautiful Is Not Ruined | Razorbill Canada | [8] |
2019 | Heather T. Smith | The Agony of Bun O'Keefe | Penguin Teen Publishing | [9] |
2020 | Courtney Summers | Sadie | St. Martin's Press | [10] |
2021 | Tanaz Bhathena | Hunted by the Sky | [11] |
Year | Author | Title | Result |
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2012 | Neil Pasricha | The Book of Awesome | Penguin Group U.S.A./Amy Einhorn Books |
2014 | Lise Dion and Liedewij Hawke | The Secret of the Blue Trunk | Dundurn Press |