Canadian Library Association Young Adult Book Award

The Canadian Library Association Young Adult Book Award was a literary award given annually from 1981 to 2016 to recognize a Canadian book of young adult fiction written in English and published in Canada, written by a citizen or permanent resident of Canada.[1]

The award was administered and presented by the Canadian Library Association, which disbanded in 2016. The award was established by the Young Adult Caucus of the Saskatchewan Library Association in 1980[1] and inaugurated by an award to Kevin Major of Newfoundland and Labrador for Far from Shore, published by Clarke, Irwin & Company of Toronto.[2]

The companion CLA Book of the Year for Children Award was inaugurated in 1947 and was presented annually without exception from 1963.[3] Its criteria included "appeal to children up to and including age 12" and "creative (i.e., original) writing (i.e., fiction, poetry, narrative, non-fiction, retelling of traditional literature)".[3] Corresponding criteria for the YA Book Award are "[appeal] to young adults between the ages of 13 and 18" and "fiction (novel, collection of short stories, or graphic novel)".[1]

The Canadian Library Association also administered a book award for illustrators, the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award.

Winners

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Canadian Library Association Young Adult Book Award winners[4]
Year Author Title Publisher
1981 Kevin Major Far from Shore Clarke, Irwin & Company
1982 Jamie Brown Superbike Clarke, Irwin & Company
1983 Monica Hughes Hunter in the Dark Clarke, Irwin & Company
1984 O. R. Melling The Druid's Tune Penguin Books
1985 Mary-Ellen Lang Collura Winners Western Producer Prairie Books
1986 Marianne Brandis The Quarter-Pie Window The Porcupine's Quill
1987 Janet Lunn Shadow in Hawthorn Bay Lester & Orpen Dennys
1988 Margaret Buffie Who is Frances Rain? Kids Can Press
1989 Helen Fogwill Porter January, February, June or July Breakwater Books
1990 Diana Wieler Bad Boy Groundwood
1991 Budge Wilson The Leaving House of Anansi Press
1992 Susan Lynn Reynolds Strandia HarperCollins
1993 Karleen Bradford There Will be Wolves HarperCollins
1994 Sean Stewart Nobody's Son Macmillan
1995 Julie Johnston Adam and Eve and Pinch-Me Lester
1996 Tim Wynne-Jones The Maestro Groundwood/Douglas & McIntyre
1997 R. P. MacIntyre Takes: Stories for Young Adults Thistledown Press
1998 Martha Brooks Bone Dance Groundwood/Douglas & McIntyre
1999 Gayle Friesen Janey's Girl Kids Can Press
2000 Katherine Holubitsky Alone at Ninety Foot Orca Book Publishers
2001 Beth Goobie Before Wings Orca Book Publishers
2002 William Bell Stones Doubleday Canada
2003 Martha Brooks True Confessions of a Heartless Girl Groundwood/Douglas & McIntyre
2004 Polly Horvath The Canning Season Groundwood/Douglas & McIntyre
2005 Miriam Toews A Complicated Kindness Alfred A. Knopf Canada
2006 Shyam Selvadurai Swimming in the Monsoon Sea Tundra Books
2007 William Bell The Blue Helmet Doubleday
2008 Martha Brooks Mistik Lake Groundwood
2009 Allan Stratton Chanda's Wars HarperCollins
2010 Lesley Livingston Wondrous Strange HarperCollins
2011 Kenneth Oppel Half Brother HarperCollins
2012 Catherine Austen All Good Children Orca Book Publishers
2013 Martine Leavitt My Book of Life by Angel Groundwood/House of Anansi Press
2014 Karen Bass Graffiti Knight Pajama Press
2015 Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki This One Summer Groundwood
2016 Erin Bow The Scorpion Rules Simon & Schuster Canada

Repeat winners

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Martha Brooks is a three-time winner of the Young Adult Book Award for 1998, 2003, and 2008, William Bell is a two-time winner, in 2002 and 2007.

Winners of multiple awards

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Two books won both the Young Adult Book Award and the CLA Book of the Year for Children Award: Shadow in Hawthorn Bay by Janet Lunn in 1987 and Half Brother by Kenneth Oppel in 2011.

Six books won both the Young Adult Book Award and the Governor General's Award for English-language children's literature, or Canada Council Children's Literature Prize before 1987. The writers and CLA award dates were Hughes 1983, Lunn 1987, (now under the present name) Wieler 1990, Johnston 1995, Wynne-Jones 1996, and Brooks 2003.[5][6]

Thus Shadow in Hawthorn Bay (Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1986) by Janet Lunn won three major Canadian awards, the CLA awards for both children's and young-adult literature and the Governor General's Award in its last year as the Canada Council Children's Literature Prize.[5]

Two winners of the CLA Young Adult Book Award were also recognized by major annual book awards in the United States. Polly Horvath won the 2003 National Book Award for Young People's Literature for The Canning Season. This One Summer, a graphic novel by Mariko and Jillian Tamaki, was one of the 2015 Honour Books, or finalists, for both the American Library Association (ALA) Michael L. Printz Award as the year's best new work for young adults judged "by literary merit alone" (recognizing Mariko Tamaki) and the ALA Caldecott Medal, or children's picture book illustration award (recognizing Jillian Tamaki).

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c "CLA Young Adult Book Award". Canadian Library Association. Archived from the original on September 5, 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  2. ^ "CLA Young Adult Book Award Winners". Canadian Library Association. Archived from the original on September 8, 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  3. ^ a b "Book of the Year for Children Award". Canadian Library Association. Archived from the original on 2015-09-07.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  4. ^ "Canadian Library Association Young Adult Book Award Archives". Canadian Children's Book Centre. Archived from the original on 2022-12-08. Retrieved 2023-05-26.
  5. ^ a b "Canada Council Children's Literature Awards" Archived 2011-01-02 at the Wayback Machine [English-language books].
      "Canada Council Children's Literature in French Awards" Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine.
    online guide to writing in canada (track0.com/ogwc). Retrieved 2015-08-22.
  6. ^ "Governor General's Literary Awards" Archived 2019-01-11 at the Wayback Machine [winners]. online guide to writing in canada. Retrieved 2015-08-22.
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  • Book Awards at the Canadian Library Association (cla.org)
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