White Pine Award

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White Pine Award
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Awarded forAwarded to various outstanding works of Canadian young adult literature (Grades 9-12: ages 14-18)
Country Canada
Presented by Ontario Library Association
First awarded2002
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The White Pine Award is one of the annual literature Forest of Reading awards sponsored by the Ontario Library Association (OLA). [1]

Contents

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]

Voting

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.

Winners

Fiction

Award winners [4]
YearAuthorTitlePublisherRef.
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 HappyThistledown Press
2011 Richard Scarsbrook The Monkeyface ChroniclesThistledown 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 RuinedRazorbill Canada [8]
2019 Heather T. Smith The Agony of Bun O'KeefePenguin Teen Publishing [9]
2020 Courtney Summers Sadie St. Martin's Press [10]
2021 Tanaz Bhathena Hunted by the Sky [11]

Non-fiction

Award winners
YearAuthorTitleResult
2012 Neil Pasricha The Book of AwesomePenguin Group U.S.A./Amy Einhorn Books
2014 Lise Dion and Liedewij Hawke The Secret of the Blue Trunk Dundurn Press

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References

  1. ↑ "Nominated Lists". Ontario Library Association. Archived from the original on 20 December 2015. Retrieved 24 December 2018.
  2. ↑ "White Pine Award". The Canadian Children's Book Centre. Archived from the original on 20 September 2019. Retrieved 20 September 2019.
  3. ↑ "White Pine Award Winners and Nominees 2002-2018" (PDF). Ontario Library Association . Archived (PDF) from the original on 3 March 2019. Retrieved 6 April 2019.
  4. ↑ "White Pine Award Archives". Canadian Children's Book Centre . Archived from the original on 2022-12-08. Retrieved 2023-05-26.
  5. ↑ "2016 OLA Forest of Reading - White Pine Award (Grades 9 to 12) - 2016". Toronto Public Library. Retrieved 6 April 2019.
  6. ↑ Cerny, Dory. "Awards: OLA Forest of Reading". Quill and Quire. Archived from the original on 6 April 2019. Retrieved 6 April 2019.
  7. ↑ Cerny, Dory (2017-05-17). "OLA announces 2017 Forest of Reading Winners". Quill and Quire . Archived from the original on 2019-04-06. Retrieved 2019-04-06.
  8. ↑ von Koeverden, Jane (2018-05-17). "Vikki VanSickle, Danielle Younge-Ullman among 2018 Forest of Reading Winners". CBC Books . Archived from the original on 2019-04-06. Retrieved 2019-04-06.
  9. ↑ Rubinoff, Joel. "Waterloo children's author nabs $50,000 prize". The Record. Archived from the original on 18 August 2021. Retrieved 18 August 2021.
  10. ↑ Scriver, Amanda (March 2021). "YA novelist Courtney Summers and the complicated allure of cults". Quill & Quire . Archived from the original on 2021-08-18. Retrieved 2021-08-18.
  11. ↑ Porter, Ryan (2021-05-18). "Forest of Reading Awards kicks off three-day ceremony, announcing first round of winners". Quill and Quire . Archived from the original on 2021-06-24. Retrieved 2021-06-22.
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