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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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

Added 14 March 2008.
Updated 14 May 2009.