Ontario Library Association
White Pine Award

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The White Pine Awards are run by the Ontario Library Association. Students in high school vote for their favourite book by a Canadian author.

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2011

  • Richard Scarsbrook – The Monkeyface Chronicles

Also shortlisted:

  • Allan Stratton – Borderline
  • Linwood Barclay – Fear the Worst
  • Wendy Phillips – Fishtailing
  • Natale Ghent – Gravity Brings Me Down
  • Alyxandra Harvey – Hearts at Stake
  • Rosemarie BollThe Second Trial
  • Courtney Summers – Some Girls Are
  • Don Calame – Swim the Fly
  • Alice Kuipers – The Worst Thing She Ever Did

2010

  • Pam Bustin – Mostly Happy

Also shortlisted:

  • Lesley Choyce – The Book of Michael
  • Courtney Summers – Cracked Up to Be
  • Susan Juby – Getting the Girl
  • Hiromi Goto – Half World
  • John Ibbitson – The Landing
  • Julie Burtinshaw – The Perfect Cut
  • Shelley Hrdlitschka – Sister Wife
  • Tim Wynne-Jones – The Uninvited
  • Lesley Livingston – Wondrous Strange

2009

  • Corey Doctorow – Little Brother

Also shortlisted:

  • Donna MilnerAfter River
  • Allan Stratton – Chanda's War
  • Polly Horvath – The Corps of the Bare Boned Plane
  • Marsha Skrupuch – Daughter of War
  • Norah McClintockDooley Takes the Fall
  • Shelly Hrdlitschka – Gotcha
  • Gail Sobat – Gravity Journal
  • Ting-Xing Ye – Mountain Girl, River Girl
  • Katherine Holubitsky – Tweaked

2008

  • Martine Leavitt – Keturah and Lord Death

Also shortlisted:

  • Susan Juby – Another Kind of Cowboy
  • William Bell – The Blue Helmet
  • Carrie Mac – The Droughtlanders: Book One in Triskelia Series
  • Lesley Choyce – The End of the World as We Know It
  • Heather Waldorf – Grist
  • Anosh Irani – The Song of Kahunsha
  • Don Aker – The Space Between
  • Holly Bennett – The Warrior’s Daughter
  • Guy Gavriel Kay – Ysabel

2007

Also shortlisted:

  • Francis Chalifour – After
  • Holly Bennett – The Bonemender
  • John Wilson – Four Steps to Death
  • Rob Payne – How to be a Hero on Earth 5
  • Teresa Toten – Me and the Blondes
  • Margaret Atwood – The Penelopiad
  • John Geddes – The Sundog Season
  • Maxine Trottier – Three Songs for Courage
  • Beverley Brenna – Wild Orchid

2006

  • Charles De Lint – The Blue Girl

Also shortlisted:

  • Graham McNamee – Acceleration
  • Karleen Bradford – Angeline
  • Iain Lawrence – B For Buster
  • Diane Tullson – Blue Highway
  • Sharon McKay – Esther
  • Linnea Heinrichs – First Vial
  • Don Trembath – Rooster
  • Shelley Hrdlitschka – Sun Signs
  • Gail Sidonie Sobat – Winter's Tale

2005

  • Marnelle Tokio – More Than You Can Chew

Also shortlisted:

  • Kathy Stinson – Becoming Ruby
  • Allan Stratton – Chanda's Secrets
  • Richard Scarsbrook – Cheeseburger Subversive
  • John Wilson – Flames of the Tiger
  • Valerie Sherrard – Kate
  • Shelley Hrdlitschka – Kat's Fall
  • Susan JubyMiss Smithers
  • Karen Krossing – Take the Stairs
  • Lynne Kositsky – The Thought of High Windows

2004

  • Don Aker – The First Stone

Also shortlisted:

  • John Wilson – And in the Morning
  • Beth Goobie – The Lottery
  • Norah McClintockNo Escape
  • Linda Holeman – Search of the Moon King's Daughter
  • Lesley Choyce – Shoulder The Sky
  • Dennis Foon – Skud
  • Barbara Haworth-Attard – Theories of Relativity
  • Ting-Xing Ye – Throwaway Daughter
  • Martine Leavitt – Tom Finder

2003

  • Gillian Chan – A Foreign Field

Also shortlisted:

  • John Lekich – The Losers' Club
  • Monica Hughes – The Maze
  • Deborah Ellis – Parvana's Journey
  • Michele Marineau, Susan Ouriou (trans.) – The Road to Chlifa
  • Beth Goobie – Sticks and Stones
  • Karen Rivers – Surviving Sam
  • Arthur SladeTribes
  • Martha Brooks – True Confessions of a Heartless Girl
  • Tamara L. Williams – Truth and Lies

2002

  • Shelley Hrdlitschka – Dancing Naked

Also shortlisted:

  • Dennis Foon – Double or Nothing
  • James Heneghan – The Grave
  • Wendy Lewis – Graveyard Girl
  • R. P. MacIntyre – Up All Night
  • Norah McClintockOver The Edge
  • Kenneth Oppel – Dead Water Zone
  • Mary C. Sheppard – Seven for a Secret
  • Allan Stratton – Leslie's Journal
  • Teresa Toten – The Game