Amy Mathers Teen Book Award

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The Amy Mathers Teen Book Award is an annual Canadian literary award, administered by the Canadian Children's Book Centre, to recognize the best works of teen and young adult literature by Canadian writers.

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The award is named for Amy Mathers, a Canadian woman with physical disabilities who undertook a reading "marathon" in 2014, reading one book a day for the entire year to raise funds to launch the award. [1]

Winners and nominees

YearAuthorTitleResultRef
2015 Marthe Jocelyn What We HideWinner [2]
Laura Langston The Art of Getting Stared AtFinalist
Caroline Pignat The Gospel Truth
Jeyn Roberts The Bodies We Wear
Robert Paul Weston Blues for Zoey
2016 Susan Juby The Truth CommissionWinner [3]
Holly Bodger 5 to 1Finalist [4]
Erin Bow Scorpion Rules
Emil Sher Young Man with Camera
Stephanie Tromly Trouble Is a Friend of Mine
2017 E. K. Johnston Exit, Pursued by a BearWinner [5]
Eileen Cook With MaliceFinalist [6]
Catherine Egan Julia Vanishes
M-E Girard Girl Mans Up
Caroline Pignat Shooter
2018 Cherie Dimaline The Marrow Thieves Winner [7]
Darren Groth Munro vs. the CoyoteFinalist [8]
Heather Smith The Agony of Bun O'Keefe
Allan Stratton The Way Back Home
Danielle Younge-Ullman Everything Beautiful Is Not Ruined
2019 Michelle Barker The House of One Thousand EyesWinner [9]
Kelley Armstrong AftermathFinalist [10]
Tanaz Bhathena A Girl Like That
Catherine Lo Easy Prey
Janice Lynn Mather Learning to Breathe
2020 Natasha Deen In the Key of Nira GhaniWinner [11]
S. K. Ali Love from A to ZFinalist [12]
Nafiza Azad The Candle and the Flame
L. D. Crichton All Our Broken Pieces
Tom Ryan Keep This to Yourself
2021 Janice Lynn Mather Facing the SunWinner [13]
June Hur The Silence of BonesFinalist [14]
Ben Philippe Charming As a Verb
Raziel Reid Followers
Danielle Younge-Ullman He Must Like You
2022 Xiran Jay Zhao Iron WidowWinner [15]
S. K. Ali Misfit in LoveFinalist [16]
Jasmin Kaur If I Tell You the Truth
Liselle Sambury Blood Like Magic
Courtney Summers The Project
2023 Zoulfa Katouh As Long as the Lemon Trees GrowWinner [17]
Nafiza Azad The Road to LostFinalist [18]
Jesmeen Kaur Deo TJ Powar Has Something to Prove
June Hur The Red Palace
H. N. Khan Wrong Side of the Court
2024 Abdi Nazemian Only This Beautiful MomentWinner [19]
Daniel Aleman Brighter Than the SunFinalist [20]
Jackie Khalilieh Something More
Liselle Sambury Delicious Monsters
Sarak Suk The Space Between Here & Now

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