Update: get the 2019 Red Maple Award and White Pine Award nominated books.

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The OLA (Ontario Library Association) announces nominees for the Red Maple and White Pine awards each year. In case you haven’t heard of them before, these two awards are part of the Forest of Reading Awards for Canadian books in various categories. In particular, Red Maple is for fiction aimed at grades 7-8 and White Pine is for fiction aimed at grades 9-12. Every year, over 250,000 readers take part in voting for the winning books.

If you want to participate and cast your vote, you need to get reading! So here are the nominated lists for 2018 and for 2017, below.

Red Maple 2018

And Then the Sky Exploded, by David A. Poulsen

Bent Not Broken: Madeline and Justin, by Lorna Schultz Nicholson

Hawk, by Jennifer Dance

Laura Monster Crusher, by Wesley King

Run, by David Skuy

Secret Path, by Gord Downie

Short for Chameleon, by Vicki Grant

Summer’s End, by Joel A. Sutherland

The Way Back Home, by Allan Stratton

The Winnowing, by Vikki VanSickle

White Pine 2018

Every Hidden Thing, by Kenneth Oppel

Everything Beautiful is Not Ruined, by Danielle Younge-Ullman 

Exo, by Fonda Lee

The Fashion Committee, by Susan Juby      

Girl Mans Up, by M-E Girard      

The Marrow Thieves, by Cherie Dimaline

Optimists Die First, by Susin Nielson  

The Pain Eater, by Beth Goobie

Speed of Life, by J.M. Kelly  

Subject to Change, by Karen Nesbitt  

Red Maple 2017

Born With: Erika and Gianni, by Lorna Schultz Nicholson

This is the second book in the One-to-One series by Clockwise Press.  The first book, Fragile Bones, was also a Red Maple honor book last year, and this relatively young Canadian publisher has a specific mission to publish high-quality YA and children’s books featuring themes of diversity, inclusion, and global awareness.

Flickers, by Arthur Slade (eBook)

The Hill, by Karen Bass

Lucky Jonah, by Richard Scrimger (eBook)

MiNRS, by Kevin Sylvester (eBook)

Sea Change, by Frank Viva

Frank Viva has had a wide-ranging career from genre-redefining picture books to New Yorker illustrations.  He runs a design firm, and he is currently working an adult fiction title about a typographer. Read the Globe and Mail review of Sea Change.

Shattered Glass, by Teresa Toten (eBook)

Shattered Glass and The Unquiet Past are both part of the Secrets series. The book is in the same format as the well-known Seven Sequels and Seven Prequels series.

Shooter, by Caroline Pignat (eBook) Update: this title won in 2017!

Caroline Pignat's 2014 book Unspeakable was reviewed for our summer program Word Out and The Gospel Truth is on our historical fiction booklist. Read-alike This Is Where It Ends was a New York Times bestseller.

Trouble is a Friend of Mine, by Stephanie Tromly (eBook)

Trouble is a Friend of Mine was on our 2016 TPL Teens Summer Edition (TTSE) booklist. The sequel is Trouble Makes a Comeback.

The Unquiet Past, by Kelley Armstrong (eBook)

Shattered Glass and The Unquiet Past are both part of the Secrets series. The book is in the same format as the well-known Seven Sequels and Seven Prequels series.

White Pine 2017

Calvin, by Martine Leavitt (eBook)

Martine Leavitt’s previous titles include the CLA Young Adult Book Award winner My Book of Life by Angel.  Calvin was also on our 2016 TTSE booklist.

Dan vs. Nature, by Don Calame (eBook)

We reviewed Dan vs. Nature in our regular Your Bookmark Here series.

The Emperor of Any Place, by Tim Wynne-Jones (eBook)

This title was one of our 2016 TTSE Top Ten Local Reads. One of the library's teens wrote a book review, and we even created an author page for Tim Wynne-Jones.

Exit, Pursued by a Bear, by E.K. Johnston (eBook)

E.K Johnston's previous title Prairie Fire was on our summers reads list for 2015. Prairie Fire, itself, is a sequel to Story Of Owen  E.K. Johnston is the author of Star Wars: Ahsoka.  Star Wars: Lost Stars and Star Wars: Bloodline, both by Claudia Gray, are also in this series.

Fifteen Lanes, by S.J. Laidlaw (eBook) Update: this title won in 2017!

The Orange Grove, by Larry Tremblay (eBook)

Rodent, by Lisa J. Lawrence

The Scorpion Rules, by Erin Bow (eBook)

The Scorpion Rules is the current CLA Young Adult Book Award winner.  The sequel, Swan Riders, is now out.  Also, Erin Bow posted on the library's blog this past summer, as The Scorpion Rules was one of our 2016 TTSE Top Ten Local Reads. Her previous titles include Plain Kate and Sorrow’s Knot and are also award winners.

A Thousand Nights, by E.K. Johnston (eBook)

The follow up to A Thousand Nights is Spindle.

Worlds of Ink and Shadow, by Lena Coakley (eBook)

The previous book to Worlds of Ink and Shadow is Witchlanders.  Worlds of Ink and Shadow is about is about the Brontes and is considered historical fantasy. It was also on our 2016 TTSE booklist.  Other books about the Brontes are Always Emily by Michaela MacColl and World Within by Jane Eagland.

Happy Reading!

Post updated October 25, 2018.