Red Maple Award

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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 BaxterWay 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

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

Also shortlisted:

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

Also shortlisted:

  • Alan Cumyn – After Sylvia
  • Sheree FitchThe 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

Also shortlisted:

  • Deborah Ellis – The Heaven Shop
  • Glen Huser – Stitches
  • Dianne Linden – Peacekeepers
  • Clem MartiniThe 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 HeneghanWaiting 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:


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

Also shortlisted:


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 McClintockPassword: Murder
  • Ishbel Moore – Daughter
  • Kenneth Oppel – Sunwing
  • Shane Peacock – The Mystery of Ireland's Eye

1999

  • Gayle Friesen – Janey's Girl

Also shortlisted:


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 McClintockThe Body in the Basement