The Manitoba Young Readers Choice Award (M.Y.R.C.A.) aims to promote reading and Canadian literature by giving young people the opportunity to vote for their favorite Canadian book from an annual preselected list. The books are nominated based on their quality and reader appeal.
This year's winner will be announced in May 2014.
The winner of the 2013 MYRCA is Box of Shocks by Chris McMahen.
The runners up are
Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes by Jonathan Auxier
and Undergrounders by David Skuy.
A lyrical fantasy blending fairy tale elements with contemporary issues Thirteen-year-old Suyin is a poor orphan who has a strange gift with languages and a mysterious connection to the c...
Paradise Manor is depressing -- the smells are bad and the residents are old. Sunny would much rather be doing her volunteer hours at Salon Teo, but her teacher won't let her. Who says vo...
Finn watches in horror as his stepmother is gunned down in front of his house. His father reacts and kills the gunman. When Finn learns that the killer is the same man who admitted to kil...
Racism, murder, and injustice wreak havoc in a frontier town. Between 1882 and 1968 there were 4,742 lynchings in the United States. In Canada during the same period there was one--...
On a military base in post-Taliban Afghanistan, American authorities have just imprisoned a teenaged girl found in a bombed-out school. The army major thinks she may be a terrorist workin...
