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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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

Added 14 March 2008.
Updated 25 October 2009.