1980s 1990s Michael Bedard , Redwork (1990) Sarah Ellis , Pick-Up Sticks (1991) Julie Johnston , Hero of Lesser Causes (1992) Tim Wynne-Jones , Some of the Kinder Planets (1993) Julie Johnston , Adam and Eve and Pinch-Me (1994) Tim Wynne-Jones , The Maestro (1995) Paul Yee , Ghost Train (1996) Kit Pearson , Awake and Dreaming (1997) Janet Lunn , The Hollow Tree (1998) Rachna Gilmore , A Screaming Kind of Day (1999) 2000s Deborah Ellis , Looking for X (2000) Arthur Slade , Dust (2001) Martha Brooks , True Confessions of a Heartless Girl (2002) Glen Huser , Stitches (2003) Kenneth Oppel , Airborn (2004) Pamela Porter , The Crazy Man (2005) William Gilkerson , Pirate's Passage (2006) Iain Lawrence , Gemini Summer (2007) John Ibbitson , The Landing (2008) Caroline Pignat , Greener Grass: The Famine Years (2009) 2010s Wendy Phillips , Fishtailing (2010) Christopher Moore , From Then to Now: A Short History of the World (2011) Susin Nielsen , The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen (2012) Teresa Toten , The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B (2013) Raziel Reid , When Everything Feels Like the Movies (2014) Caroline Pignat , The Gospel Truth (2015) Martine Leavitt , Calvin (2016) Cherie Dimaline , The Marrow Thieves (2017) Jonathan Auxier , Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster (2018) Erin Bow , Stand on the Sky (2019) 2020s