Hackmatack Children's Choice Book Award
Fiction

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The Hackmatack Children's Choice Book Award for Fiction (English) is voted on by children in Atlantic Canada who are in grades four to six. For more information, visit the official site.

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2015

  • Sam Fisher – Scare Scape

Also shortlisted:

  • Jan L. Coates – The Power of Harmony
  • Cary Fagan – Danny, Who Fell in a Hole
  • Linda Granfield, Brian Deines – The Road to Afghanistan
  • Sylvia Gunnery – Game Face
  • Alison Hughes – Poser
  • Hazel Hutchins – The Great Bike Rescue
  • Jill MacLean – The Hidden Agenda of Sigrid Sugden
  • Philip Roy – Me & Mr. Bell
  • Tom Ryan – Totally Unrelated

2014

  • Ashley Spires – Binky Takes Charge

Also shortlisted:

  • Alice Walsh – A Long Way From Home
  • Kit Pearson – And Nothing But the Truth
  • Philippa Dowding – The Gargoyle at the Gates
  • Nancy Wilcox Richards – How to Fix a Lie
  • Susan Hughes – The Island Horse
  • Caroline Adderson – Jasper John Dooley: Star of the Week
  • Jessica Scott Kerrin – Lower the Trap
  • Dan Bar-el – That One Spooky Night
  • Allison Maher – Time Flies When You're Chasing Spies

2013

  • Catherine Austen – 26 Tips For Surviving Grade 6

Also shortlisted:

  • Debby Waldman – Addy's Race
  • Cary Fagan – Banjo of Destiny
  • Michelle Superle – Black Dog Dream Dog
  • Mike Deas – Dalen and Gole: Scandal in Port Angus
  • Hugh Brewster – Deadly Voyage: RMS Titanic
  • Paul Burns – Emily Finds a Dragon
  • Philip Roy – Ghosts of the Pacific
  • Mike Leonetti – The Magnificent Mario
  • Steve Vernon – Sinking Deeper: Or My Questionable (Possibly Heroic) Decision to Invent a Sea Monster

2012

  • Hugh Brewster – Prisoner of Dieppe: World War II

Also shortlisted:

  • James Leck – The Adventures of Jack Lime
  • Kate Inglis – The Dread Crew: Pirates of the Backwoods
  • Anna Kerz – The Gnome's Eye
  • Cary Fagan – Jacob Two-Two on the High Seas
  • Eric Howling – Kayak Combat
  • Robert Rayner – Libby's Got the Beat
  • Joyce Barkhouse – Pit Pony
  • Valerie Sherrard – Tumbleweed Skies
  • Kristin Butcher – Zack & Zoe: Bully and the Beagle

2011

  • Ashley Spires – Binky: The Space Cat

Also shortlisted:

  • Margaret J. McMaster – Carried Away on Licorice Days
  • Caroline Stellings – The Contest
  • Philip Roy – Journey to Atlantis
  • Caroline Stellings – The Malagawatch Mice and the Cat Who Discovered America
  • Anna Kerz – The Mealworm Diaries
  • Tom Schwarzkopf – The Secrets of Dynamite Point
  • Rukhsana Khan – Wanting Mor
  • Jennifer Maruna – When the Cherry Blossoms Fell
  • Jennifer McGrath Kent – White Cave Escape

2010

  • Ingrid Lee – Dog Lost

Also shortlisted:

  • Helene Boudreau – Acadian Star
  • Sarah Ellis – Days of Toil and Tears
  • Cyndi Sand-Eveland – Dear Toni
  • Maureen Bush – Feather Brain
  • Sean Cullen – Hamish X Goes to Providence, Rhode Island
  • Jessica Scott Kerrin – Martin Bridge in High Gear!
  • Jill Maclean – Nine Lives of Travis Keating
  • Linda DeMeulemeester – Secret of Grim Hill
  • Philip Roy – Submarine Outlaw

2009

  • Jennifer McGrath Kent – Chocolate River Rescue

Also shortlisted:

  • Anita Daher – Racing for Diamonds
  • Lois Donovan – Winds of L'Acadie
  • Deborah Ellis – Jakeman
  • Hazel Hutchins – TJ and the Quiz Kids
  • K.V. Johansen – Torrie & the Snake-Prince
  • Liam O'Donnell – Wild Ride
  • Shane Peacock – Eye of the Crow
  • Robert Rayner – Falling Star
  • Irene N. Watts – When the Bough Breaks

2008

  • Julie Lawson – No Safe Harbour

Also shortlisted:

  • Becky Citra – Never to be Told
  • Hadley Dyer – Johnny Kellock Died Today
  • Jacqueline Guest – Secret Signs
  • Jessica Scott Kerrin – Martin Bridge: Blazing Ahead
  • Michael Kusugak – Curse of the Shaman
  • Jacqueline Pearce – Truth About Rats (and Dogs)
  • Robert Rayner – Out of Sight
  • Tom Schwarzkopf – Danger at Mason's Island
  • Budge Wilson – Izzie, Book 4: Homecoming

2007

  • Pamela Porter – The Crazy Man

Also shortlisted:

  • Don Aker – One on One
  • Sheree Fitch – If I Had a Million Onions
  • Joyce Grant-Smith – The Latch
  • Sylvia Gunnery – Out of Bounds
  • Jacqueline Halsey – Peggy's Letters
  • Marthe Jocelyn – Mabel Riley: A Reliable Record of Humdrum, Peril and Romance
  • Jessica Scott Kerrin – Martin Bridge: Ready for Takeoff!
  • Carol Matas – Action!
  • Nancy Shouse – Any Pet Will Do

2006

  • Natale Ghent – No Small Thing

Also shortlisted:

  • Martha Attema – Hero
  • Joan Givner – Ellen Fremedon
  • Vicki Grant – The Puppet Wrangler
  • Gordon Korman – Dive Trilogy
  • Lynne Kositsky – Rachel: An Elephant Tree Christmas
  • Robert Rayner – Just for Kicks
  • Robert Sutherland – The Adventures of Tommy Smith
  • Joanne Taylor – There You Are
  • Alice Walsh – Pomiuk: Prince of the North

2005

  • Deborah Ellis – Mud City

Also shortlisted:

  • Becky Citra – Dog Days
  • Philip Dinn and Andy Jones – Peg Bearskin: A Traditional Newfoundland Tale
  • Kristin Bieber Domm – The Hatchling's Journey: A Blanding's Turtle Story
  • Sarah Ellis – The Several Lives of Orphan Jack
  • Julie Lawson – Emily: Building Bridges
  • Ainslie Manson – Leaving the Log House
  • Carmelita McGrath – The Boston Box
  • Dorothy Perkyns – Last Days in Africville
  • Maxine Trottier – Alone in an Untamed Land-Les Filles du Roi Diary of Hélène St. Onge

2004

Also shortlisted:

  • Linda Bailey – What's a Serious Detective Like Me Doing in Such a Silly Movie?
  • Joan Clark – The Word for Home
  • James Heneghan – Flood
  • Julie Lawson – A Ribbon of Shining Steel
  • Janet McNaughton – The Saltbox Sweater
  • Cathy Brown Murphy – Jasmine's Journey
  • Kenneth Oppel – Firewing
  • Kathy Stinson – Marie-Claire: A Season of Sorrow
  • Budge Wilson – Izzie: The Christmas That Almost Wasn't

2003

  • Deborah Ellis – The Breadwinner

Also shortlisted:

  • Sarah Ellis – A Prairie As Wide As The Sea
  • Mary Jane Hampton – The Cat From Kosovo
  • Anita Horrocks – Topher
  • Marthe Jocelyn – Earthly Astonishments
  • Lynne Kositsky – A Mighty Big Imagining
  • Richard Scrimger – A Nose For Adventure
  • Andrea Spalding – The White Horse Talisman
  • Maxine Trottier – By The Standing Stone
  • Alice Walsh – Heroes of Isle Aux Morts

2002

Also shortlisted:

  • Rachna Gilmore – Mina's Spring of Colors
  • Carol Matas – Rebecca
  • Caryl Cude Mullin – A Riddle of Roses
  • Shane Peacock – The Mystery of Ireland's Eye
  • Bill Richardson – After Hamelin
  • Ting-Xing Ye – White Lily
  • Maxine Trottier – Dreamstones
  • Eric Walters – The Money Pit Mystery
  • Budge Wilson – Duff's Monkey Business

2001

  • Kathy Kacer – The Secret of Gabi's Dresser

Also shortlisted:

  • Cynthia Bates – Mikayla's Victory
  • Karleen Bradford – Dragonfire
  • Sheree Fitch – The Other Author Arthur
  • Elaine Breault Hammond – Explosion at Dawson Creek
  • Annette LeBox – Miracle at Willowcreek
  • Kenneth Oppel – Sunwing
  • Ian Wallace – Boy of the Deeps
  • Eric Walters – The Hydrofoil Mystery
  • Budge Wilson – The Cat That Barked

2000

Also shortlisted:

  • Linda Brousseau – Marina's Star
  • Lesley Choyce – Carrie's Crowd
  • Elaine Breault Hammond – The Secret Under the Whirlpool
  • Celia Barker Lottridge – Wings to Fly
  • Kevin Major – The House of Wooden Santas
  • Hugh William McKibbon – The Token Gift
  • Ted Staunton – Hope Springs a Leak
  • Budge Wilson – Duff the Giant Killer
  • Paul Yee – Ghost Train