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Novel Category Nominees (Grades 4 – 7

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• Embrace the Chicken by Mahtab Narsimhan – Orca Book Publishers

• Finding Cooper by Stacey Matson – Scholastic Canada Ltd

• The Ghost Collector by Allison Mills – Annick Press

• The Horse of the River: A Camp Canyon-Falls Adventure by Sari Cooper – Harbour Publishing

• Mya’s Strategy to Save the World by Tanya Lloyd Kyi – Puffin Canada

• Nevers by Sara Cassidy – Orca Book Publishers

• Stowaway by Pam Withers – Dundurn

 

Chapter Book/Early Novels Nominees (Grades 2 – 4)

• Badir and the Beaver by Shannon Stewart – Orca Book Publishers

• Iggy’s World by Gail Anderson-Dargatz – Orca Book Publishers

• Just a Kid by Rie Charles – Red Deer Press

• Kiddo by Cynthia Nugent – Tradewind Books

• Shadow Island: Sueno Bay Adventures by Mike Deas and Nancy Deas – Orca Book Publishers

• Sophie Trophy by Eileen Holland – Crwth Press

• The Mostly True Story of Pudding Tat Adventure Cat by Caroline Adderson – Groundwood Books

• Ruckus by Laurie Elmquist – Orca Book Publishers

 

Picture Book Nominees 

• Birdsong by Julie Flett – Greystone Kids

• Fairy Science by Ashley Spires – Tundra

• The House at the End of the Road by Kari Rust –Owl Kids Books 

• Kevin the Unicorn: Its Not all Rainbows by Jessika von Innerebner– North Winds Press (Scholastic Canada Ltd)

• Ojiichan’s Gift by Chieri Uegaki illus. Genevieve Simms – Kids Can Press

• Princess Puffybottom…and Darryl by Susin Nielsen illus. Olivia Chin Mueller– Tundra

• The Ranger by Nancy Vo – Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press

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