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.
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]
Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref |
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2015 | Marthe Jocelyn | What We Hide | Winner | [2] |
Laura Langston | The Art of Getting Stared At | Finalist | ||
Caroline Pignat | The Gospel Truth | |||
Jeyn Roberts | The Bodies We Wear | |||
Robert Paul Weston | Blues for Zoey | |||
2016 | Susan Juby | The Truth Commission | Winner | [3] |
Holly Bodger | 5 to 1 | Finalist | [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 Bear | Winner | [5] |
Eileen Cook | With Malice | Finalist | [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 Coyote | Finalist | [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 Eyes | Winner | [9] |
Kelley Armstrong | Aftermath | Finalist | [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 Ghani | Winner | [11] |
S. K. Ali | Love from A to Z | Finalist | [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 Sun | Winner | [13] |
June Hur | The Silence of Bones | Finalist | [14] | |
Ben Philippe | Charming As a Verb | |||
Raziel Reid | Followers | |||
Danielle Younge-Ullman | He Must Like You | |||
2022 | Xiran Jay Zhao | Iron Widow | Winner | [15] |
S. K. Ali | Misfit in Love | Finalist | [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 Grow | Winner | [17] |
Nafiza Azad | The Road to Lost | Finalist | [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 Moment | Winner | [19] |
Daniel Aleman | Brighter Than the Sun | Finalist | [20] | |
Jackie Khalilieh | Something More | |||
Liselle Sambury | Delicious Monsters | |||
Sarak Suk | The Space Between Here & Now |
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