Canadian Library Association Young Adult Book Award

Established in 1980. Presented annually for creative literature: novel, play, or poetry. Work must be writen by a Canadian and published in Canada. The Saskatchewan Library Association originally established the award.



This is a selection of our Canadian Library Association Young Adult Book Award section. To find a specific book or author, or just to browse, please use the search box.

Mistik Lake - young adult softcover
By Martha Brooks - $14.95 - add to cart

Everyone is affected by the haunted life of Sally McLean - her family as well as the lakeside community of Mistik Lake where a tragedy occurred in the winter of her sixteenth year. Now her daughte...

 

Blue Helmet - young adult softcover
By William Bell - $14.95 - add to cart

Canadian writer William Bell is well-known for his young adult fiction and has won the Mr.Christie’s Award and The Manitoba Readers’ Choice Award among others. His latest book is The Blue Helmet, w...

 

Swimming In The Monsoon Sea - young adult softcover
By Shyam Selvadurai - $14.99 - add to cart

The setting is Sri Lanka, 1980, and it is the season of the monsoons. Fourteen-year-old Amrith is submerged in the cheerful, well-to-do lifestyle in which his vibrant Auntie Bundle and kindly Uncle...

 

A Complicated Kindness - trade paperback
By Miriam Toews - $17.95 - add to cart

Winner of CBC's Canada Reads 2006 .Winner of the 2004 Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction.Sixteen-year-old Nomi Nickel longs to hang out with Lou Reed and Marianne Faithfull in New York C...

 

True Confessions of a Heartless Girl - young adult softcover
By Martha Brooks - $9.95 - add to cart

2002 Governor General's Award winner for text. In the midst of a heaven-rattling summer storm a young stranger blows into a small prairie town. On the run after taking her latest boyfriend's truck,...

 

Stones - young adult softcover
By William Bell - $7.99 - add to cart

2002 Canadian Library Association Young Adult Book Award WinnerGarnet Havelock was always a bit different from other guys. He never quite fit in and he was okay with that. Now, in his final year o...

 

Before Wings - young adult softcover
By Beth Goobie - $9.95 - add to cart

2001 Canadian Library Association Young Adult Book Award Winner2000 Saskatchewan Book Awards: Children's Literature Award WinnerLove story, mystery, tale of the spirit world? Before Wings is these ...

 

Janey's Girl - young adult softcover
By Gayle Friesen - $7.95 - add to cart

As 14 year old Claire and her mother drive across the country to visit her grandmother, Claire watches her mother become anxious about returning to her hometown. A sensitive story about family.

 

Bone Dance - young adult softcover
By Martha Brooks - $8.95 - add to cart

A densely-layered, complicated plot, with the story narrated in third-person, past tense, and told alternately by the two central characters, Lonny and Alexandra, this novel will appeal to the more...