Ontario Library Association
White Pine Award
The White Pine Awards are run by the Ontario Library Association. Students in high school vote for their favourite book by a Canadian author.
indicates a review is available for that book
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
- Kelley Armstrong – The Gathering
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 Boll – The 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 Milner – After River
- Allan Stratton – Chanda's War
- Polly Horvath – The Corps of the Bare Boned Plane
- Marsha Skrupuch – Daughter of War
- Norah McClintock – Dooley 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 Juby – Miss 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 McClintock – No 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 Slade – Tribes
- 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 McClintock – Over The Edge
- Kenneth Oppel – Dead Water Zone
- Mary C. Sheppard – Seven for a Secret
- Allan Stratton – Leslie's Journal
- Teresa Toten – The Game
