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.


2008

  • Safe as Houses – Eric Walters

Also shortlisted:

  • Darkwing – Kenneth Oppel
  • Endymion Spring – Matthew Skelton
  • Gemini Summer – Iain Lawrence
  • Pirate's Passage – William Gilkerson
  • The Rise of the Golden Cobra – Henry T. Aubin
  • Sarah's Legacy – Valerie Sherrard
  • Skinnybones and the Wrinkle Queen – Glen Huser
  • Stolen Away – Christopher Dinsdale
  • Where Soldiers Lie – John Wilson

2007

Fiction

  • We All Fall Down – Eric Walters

Also shortlisted:

  • Born to Rock – Gordon Korman
  • The Girls They Left Behind – Bernice Thurman Hunter
  • The Isabel Factor – Gayle Friesen
  • Johnny Kellock Died Today – Hadley Dyer
  • Megiddo's Shadow – Arthur Slade
  • Not a Trace – Norah McClintock
  • The Plague – Clem Martini
  • The Raintree Rebellion – Janet McNaughton
  • Red Goodwin – John Wilson

Non-Fiction

  • Thieves! – Andreas Schroeder

Also shortlisted:

  • Alligator & Crocodile Rescue – Trish Snyder
  • The Blue Jean Book – Tanya Lloyd Kyi
  • In Your Face – Shari Graydon
  • Into the World of the Dead – Michael Boughn
  • It's Your Room – Janice Weaver & Frieda Wishinsky
  • Jean Chrétien – Nate Hendley
  • Money, Money, Money – Eve Drobot
  • Our Stories, Our Songs – Deborah Ellis
  • Season of Rage – John Cooper

2006

Also shortlisted:

  • After Sylvia – Alan Cumyn
  • Blood Brothers – Marilyn Halvorson
  • Convicts – Iain Lawrence
  • From Charlie's Point Of View – Richard Scrimger
  • Gravesavers – Sheree Fitch
  • Greenies – Myra Paperny
  • Lost Goat Lane – Rosa Jordan
  • Mercury Man – Tom Henighan
  • Sower Of Tales – Rachna Gilmore

2005

Fiction

Also shortlisted:

  • A Different Kind of Beauty – Sylvia McNicoll
  • Dead and Gone – Norah McClintock
  • The Heaven Shop – Deborah Ellis
  • The MobClem Martini
  • Nobody's Child – Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch
  • Peacekeepers – Dianne Linden
  • The Princess Pawn – Maggie L. Wood
  • Sister to the Wolf – Maxine Trottier
  • Stitches – Glen Huser

Non-Fiction

  • Scams! – Andreas Schroeder

Also shortlisted:

  • From Head to Toe – Janice Weaver
  • I Remember Korea – Linda Granfield
  • Made You Look – Shari Graydon
  • Wild Science Them – Victoria Miles
  • Working Like a Dog – Gena K. Gorrell

2004

Also shortlisted:

  • Parvana's Journey – Deborah Ellis
  • The Dirt Eaters – Dennis Foon
  • In Spite of Killer Bees – Julie Johnston
  • The Buccaneers – Iain Lawrence
  • Waiting for Sarah – Bruce McBay and James Heneghan
  • Charlie Wilcox's Great War – Sharon McKay
  • An Earthly Knight – Janet McNaughton
  • On Wings of a Dragon – Cora Taylor
  • Run – Eric Walters

2003

  • Losing Forever – Gayle Friesen

Also shortlisted:

  • The Carved Box – Gillian Chan
  • City of the Dead – Sharon Stewart
  • Firewing – Kenneth Oppel
  • Flood – James Heneghan
  • Fractures – Budge Wilson
  • The Sacred Seal – J.C. Mills
  • Irish Chain – Barbara Haworth-Attard
  • Out of the Ashes – Valerie Sherrard
  • Saving JaseyDiane Tullson

2002

  • Clara's War – Kathy Kacer

Also shortlisted:

  • A Bushel of Light – Troon Harrison
  • Across the Steel River – Ted Stenhouse
  • Bone Beds of the Badlands – Shane Peacock
  • Bully Boys – Eric Walters
  • By the Standing Stone – Maxine Trottier
  • Dust – Arthur Slade
  • Stones – William Bell
  • Whisperings of Magic – Karleen Bradford
  • Whose Side Are You On? – Betty Fitzpatrick Dorion

2001

  • Rebound – Eric Walters

Also shortlisted:

  • The Breadwinner – Deborah Ellis
  • Men of Stone – Gayle Friesen
  • Raspberry House Blues – Linda Holeman
  • Storm Warning – Monica Hughes
  • The Wreckers – Iain Lawrence
  • Charlie Wilcox – Sharon McKay
  • Over the Edge – Norah McClintock
  • The Secret Under My Skin – Janet McNaughton
  • The Boy in the Burning HouseTim Wynne-Jones

2000

  • What They Don't Know – Anita Horrocks

Also shortlisted:

  • The Sunflower Diary – Lillian Boraks-Nemetz
  • Alone At Ninety Foot – Katherine Holubitsky
  • The Story Box – Monica Hughes
  • Touch Of The Clown – Glen Huser
  • Dahling, If You Luv Me Would You Please Please Smile – Rukhsana Khan
  • Password: Murder – Norah McClintock
  • Daughter – Ishbel Moore
  • Sunwing – Kenneth Oppel
  • The Mystery of Ireland's Eye – Shane Peacock

1999

  • Janey's Girl – Gayle Friesen

Also shortlisted:

  • Zack – William Bell
  • Angels Turn Their Backs – Margaret Buffie
  • Mercy's Birds – Linda Holeman
  • Sins of the Father – Norah McClintock
  • Make or Break Spring – Janet McNaughton
  • Awake and Dreaming – Kit Pearson
  • War of the Eagles – Eric Walters
  • Brad's Universe – Mary Woodbury
  • Stephen Fair – Tim Wynne-Jones

1998

  • After the War – Carol Matas

Also shortlisted:

  • Stranger at Bay – Don Aker
  • A Light in the Dunes – Martha Attema
  • No Fixed Address – Maureen Bayless
  • What’s Tuesday? – Mitzi Dale
  • Uncle Ronald – Brian Doyle
  • Back of Beyond – Sarah Ellis
  • Promise Song – Linda Holeman
  • Moonkid and Prometheus – Paul Kropp
  • The Body in the Basement – Norah McClintock