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McNally Robinson Book for Young People Award 2008 Shortlist

This award, divided into the categories of Young Adult and Children, is presented to the two Manitoba writers whose books for young people are judged the best written. The books must have been published in 2007. The two winning authors will each receive a cash award of $2,500 donated by McNally Robinson Booksellers.

In 2008, the McNally Robinson Book for Young People Award (Younger Category) was deferred to 2009.



This is a selection of our current McNally Robinson Book for Young People Award 2008 Shortlist titles. To find other titles or authors, or just to browse, please use the search box.

Exploits of a Reluctant (But Extremely Goodlooking) Hero - young adult softcover
By Maureen Fergus - $8.95 - add to cart

Meet a teenage hero who likes nothing better than to sit back with a bucket of fried chicken and a girlie magazine, waiting for his family plumbing fortune to come to him. But when our hero gets in...

 

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...

 

Not a Nickel to Spare: The Great Depression Diary of Sally Cohen: Toronto, Ontario 1932 - children's hardcover
By Perry Nodelman - $14.99 - add to cart

Coping with being poor during the Depression is hard enough, but Sally also has to deal with the anti-Jewish feelings in her community when she ventures outside her familiar Jewish neighbourhood. A...

 

Sandbag Shuffle - young adult softcover
By Kevin Marc Fournier - $12.95 - add to cart

2008 McNally Robinson Book for Young People Award Winner (Older Category).In this odd, exciting, and cheerfully irresponsible adventure, Owen and Andrew are opportunists with rapid-fire wit, no pas...

 

Whirlwind - young adult softcover
By Carol Matas - $9.95 - add to cart

Matas, whose Holocaust novels include In My Enemy's House (1999), confronts a shameful part of World War II history--Americans' prejudice against German Jewish refugees. Ben Friedman, newly arrive...

 




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