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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2015

Fiction

  • Eve Silver – Rush

Also shortlisted:

  • Jan Andrews – The Silent Summer of Kyle McGinley
  • Gail Gallant – Apparition
  • Darren Hynes – Creeps
  • Amy McCulloch – The Oathbreaker's Shadow
  • Gabrielle Prendergast – Audacious
  • Tom Ryan – Tag Along
  • Heather Smith – Baygirl
  • Teresa Toten – The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B
  • Ria Voros – The Opposite of Geek

2014

Fiction

  • Lisa Harrington – Live To Tell

Also shortlisted:

  • Martine Leavitt – My Book of Life By Angel
  • Jill MacLean – Nix Minus One
  • David A. Poulsen – Old Man
  • Ivan E. Coyote – One in Every Crowd
  • Don Aker – Running On Empty
  • Rachel Hartman – Seraphina
  • Colleen Nelson – The Fall
  • Lindsay Moynihan – The Waiting Tree
  • Courtney Summers – This is Not a Test

Non-fiction

  • Lise Dion, Liedewij Hawke – The Secret of the Blue Trunk

Also shortlisted:

  • Mark Reid – 100 Days That Changed Canada
  • Brad Goreski, Mickey Rapkin – Born To Be Brad
  • Georges St. Pierre – The Way of the Fight
  • Marion Fargey Brooker – Hold the Oxo!
  • Craig Kielburger, Marc Kielburger – Living Me to We
  • Cindy Babyn – Moving Out!
  • Laura Scandiffio – People Who Said No
  • Cynthia J. Faryon – Real Justice: Guilty of Being Weird
  • Rob Stewart – Save the Humans

2013

  • Jeyn Roberts – Dark Inside

Also shortlisted:

  • Catherine Austen – All Good Children
  • Cecil Castellucci – First Day On Earth
  • Abby McDonald – Getting Over Garrett Delaney
  • Cathy Ostlere – Karma
  • Carrie Mac – The Opposite Of Tidy
  • Eric Walters, Teresa Toten – The Taming
  • Tom Ryan – Way to Go
  • Megan Crewe – The Way We Fall
  • Lena Coakley – Witchlanders

2012

Fiction

Also shortlisted:

  • Jo Treggiari – Ashes, Ashes
  • Don Calame – Beat the Band
  • Moira Young – Blood Red Road
  • Gail Sidonie Sobat – Chance to Dance for You
  • Sarah N. Harvey – Death Benefits
  • Don Aker – The Fifth Rule
  • Drew Hayden Taylor – Motorcycles & Sweetgrass
  • Lesley Anne Cowan – Something Wicked
  • Donalda Reid – The Way It Is

Non-fiction

  • Neil Pasricha – The Book of Awesome

Also shortlisted:

  • Russell Peters – Call Me Russell
  • Jonathan Webb, J.L. Granatstein – Canada's Wars
  • Mike Leonetti – Hockey Now!
  • Kate Scowen, Peter Mitchell – I.D.
  • Tom Rand, Dave Clark – Kick the Fossil Fuel Habit
  • Susan Juby – Nice Recovery
  • Wes "Maestro" Williams – Stick to Your Vision
  • Scott Chantler – Two Generals
  • Les Stroud – Will to Live

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