Red Maple Award
The Red Maple Awards are run by the Ontario Library Association and voted on by groups of students in grades 7 and 8. For more details, visit the official site.
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2009
Fiction
Also shortlisted:
- B.J. Bayle – Perilous Passage
- Jean Rae Baxter – Way Lies North
- Christopher Paul Curtis – Elijah of Buxton
- James Heneghan – Payback
- Iain Lawrence – The Castaways
- Nicole Luiken – Frost
- Kit Pearson – A Perfect Gentle Knight
- Caroline Pignat – Egghead
- Yvonne Prinz – Not Fair, Clare
Non-Fiction
- Elizabeth MacLeod – Royal Murder: The Deadly Intrigue of Ten Sovereigns
Also shortlisted:
- Hugh Brewster – At Vimy Ridge: Canada's Greatest World War I Victory
- Tanya Lloyd Kyi – Canadian Boys Who Rocked the World
- Antonia Banyard – Dangerous Crossings!
- John Wilson – Desperate Glory: The Story of WWI
- Wendy Lewis – Fire on the Water
- David Morley – Healing Our World
- Anne Renaud – Island of Hope and Sorrow
- Elizabeth MacLeod – The Kids Book of Canada at War
- Ed Butts – SOS: Stories of Survival
2008
- Eric Walters – Safe as Houses
Also shortlisted:
- Henry T. Aubin – The Rise of the Golden Cobra
- Christopher Dinsdale – Stolen Away
- William Gilkerson – Pirate's Passage
- Glen Huser – Skinnybones and the Wrinkle Queen
- Iain Lawrence – Gemini Summer
- Kenneth Oppel – Darkwing
- Valerie Sherrard – Sarah's Legacy
- Matthew Skelton – Endymion Spring
- John Wilson – Where Soldiers Lie
2007
Fiction
- Eric Walters – We All Fall Down
Also shortlisted:
- Hadley Dyer – Johnny Kellock Died Today
- Gayle Friesen – The Isabel Factor
- Bernice Thurman Hunter – The Girls They Left Behind
- Gordon Korman – Born to Rock
- Clem Martini – The Plague
- Norah McClintock – Not a Trace
- Janet McNaughton – The Raintree Rebellion
- Arthur Slade – Megiddo's Shadow
- John Wilson – Red Goodwin
Non-Fiction
- Andreas Schroeder – Thieves!
Also shortlisted:
- Michael Boughn – Into the World of the Dead
- John Cooper – Season of Rage
- Eve Drobot – Money, Money, Money
- Deborah Ellis – Our Stories, Our Songs
- Shari Graydon – In Your Face
- Nate Hendley – Jean Chrétien
- Tanya Lloyd Kyi – The Blue Jean Book
- Trish Snyder – Alligator & Crocodile Rescue
- Janice Weaver & Frieda Wishinsky – It's Your Room
2006
- Kenneth Oppel – Skybreaker
Also shortlisted:
- Alan Cumyn – After Sylvia
- Sheree Fitch – The Gravesavers
- Rachna Gilmore – Sower of Tales
- Marilyn Halvorson – Blood Brothers
- Tom Henighan – Mercury Man
- Rosa Jordan – Lost Goat Lane
- Iain Lawrence – Convicts
- Myra Paperny – Greenies
- Richard Scrimger – From Charlie's Point of View
2005
Fiction
- Kenneth Oppel – Airborn
Also shortlisted:
- Deborah Ellis – The Heaven Shop
- Glen Huser – Stitches
- Dianne Linden – Peacekeepers
- Clem Martini – The Mob
- Norah McClintock – Dead and Gone
- Sylvia McNicoll – A Different Kind of Beauty
- Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch – Nobody's Child
- Maxine Trottier – Sister to the Wolf
- Maggie L. Wood – The Princess Pawn
Non-Fiction
- Andreas Schroeder – Scams!
Also shortlisted:
- Gena K. Gorrell – Working Like a Dog
- Linda Granfield – I Remember Korea
- Shari Graydon – Made You Look
- Victoria Miles – Wild Science Them
- Janice Weaver – From Head to Toe
2004
Also shortlisted:
- Deborah Ellis – Parvana's Journey
- Dennis Foon – The Dirt Eaters
- Julie Johnston – In Spite of Killer Bees
- Iain Lawrence – The Buccaneers
- Bruce McBay and James Heneghan – Waiting for Sarah
- Sharon McKay – Charlie Wilcox's Great War
- Janet McNaughton – An Earthly Knight
- Cora Taylor – On Wings of a Dragon
- Eric Walters – Run
2003
- Gayle Friesen – Losing Forever
Also shortlisted:
- Gillian Chan – The Carved Box
- Barbara Haworth-Attard – Irish Chain
- James Heneghan – Flood
- J.C. Mills – The Sacred Seal
- Kenneth Oppel – Firewing
- Valerie Sherrard – Out of the Ashes
- Sharon Stewart – City of the Dead
- Diane Tullson – Saving Jasey
- Budge Wilson – Fractures
2002
- Kathy Kacer – Clara's War
Also shortlisted:
- William Bell – Stones
- Karleen Bradford – Whisperings of Magic
- Betty Fitzpatrick Dorion – Whose Side Are You On?
- Troon Harrison – A Bushel of Light
- Shane Peacock – Bone Beds of the Badlands
- Arthur Slade – Dust
- Ted Stenhouse – Across the Steel River
- Maxine Trottier – By the Standing Stone
- Eric Walters – Bully Boys
2001
- Eric Walters – Rebound
Also shortlisted:
- Deborah Ellis – The Breadwinner
- Gayle Friesen – Men of Stone
- Linda Holeman – Raspberry House Blues
- Monica Hughes – Storm Warning
- Iain Lawrence – The Wreckers
- Norah McClintock – Over the Edge
- Sharon McKay – Charlie Wilcox
- Janet McNaughton – The Secret Under My Skin
- Tim Wynne-Jones – The Boy in the Burning House
2000
- Anita Horrocks – What They Don't Know
Also shortlisted:
- Lillian Boraks-Nemetz – The Sunflower Diary
- Katherine Holubitsky – Alone At Ninety Foot
- Monica Hughes – The Story Box
- Glen Huser – Touch of the Clown
- Rukhsana Khan – Dahling, If You Luv Me Would You Please Please Smile
- Norah McClintock – Password: Murder
- Ishbel Moore – Daughter
- Kenneth Oppel – Sunwing
- Shane Peacock – The Mystery of Ireland's Eye
1999
- Gayle Friesen – Janey's Girl
Also shortlisted:
- William Bell – Zack
- Margaret Buffie – Angels Turn Their Backs
- Linda Holeman – Mercy's Birds
- Norah McClintock – Sins of the Father
- Janet McNaughton – Make or Break Spring
- Kit Pearson – Awake and Dreaming
- Eric Walters – War of the Eagles
- Mary Woodbury – Brad's Universe
- Tim Wynne-Jones – Stephen Fair
1998
- Carol Matas – After the War
Also shortlisted:
- Don Aker – Stranger at Bay
- Martha Attema – A Light in the Dunes
- Maureen Bayless – No Fixed Address
- Mitzi Dale – What's Tuesday?
- Brian Doyle – Uncle Ronald
- Sarah Ellis – Back of Beyond
- Linda Holeman – Promise Song
- Paul Kropp – Moonkid and Prometheus
- Norah McClintock – The Body in the Basement
