The Amy Mathers Teen Book Award is an annual Canadian literary award, administered by the Canadian Children's Book Centre, to recognize the best works of teen and young adult literature by Canadian writers.
The award is named for Amy Mathers, a Canadian woman with physical disabilities who undertook a reading "marathon" in 2014, reading one book a day for the entire year to raise funds to launch the award.[1]
Winners and nominees
edit| Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Marthe Jocelyn | What We Hide | Winner | [2] |
| Laura Langston | The Art of Getting Stared At | Finalist | ||
| Caroline Pignat | The Gospel Truth | |||
| Jeyn Roberts | The Bodies We Wear | |||
| Robert Paul Weston | Blues for Zoey | |||
| 2016 | Susan Juby | The Truth Commission | Winner | [3] |
| Holly Bodger | 5 to 1 | Finalist | [4] | |
| Erin Bow | Scorpion Rules | |||
| Emil Sher | Young Man with Camera | |||
| Stephanie Tromly | Trouble Is a Friend of Mine | |||
| 2017 | E. K. Johnston | Exit, Pursued by a Bear | Winner | [5] |
| Eileen Cook | With Malice | Finalist | [6] | |
| Catherine Egan | Julia Vanishes | |||
| M-E Girard | Girl Mans Up | |||
| Caroline Pignat | Shooter | |||
| 2018 | Cherie Dimaline | The Marrow Thieves | Winner | [7] |
| Darren Groth | Munro vs. the Coyote | Finalist | [8] | |
| Heather Smith | The Agony of Bun O'Keefe | |||
| Allan Stratton | The Way Back Home | |||
| Danielle Younge-Ullman | Everything Beautiful Is Not Ruined | |||
| 2019 | Michelle Barker | The House of One Thousand Eyes | Winner | [9] |
| Kelley Armstrong | Aftermath | Finalist | [10] | |
| Tanaz Bhathena | A Girl Like That | |||
| Catherine Lo | Easy Prey | |||
| Janice Lynn Mather | Learning to Breathe | |||
| 2020 | Natasha Deen | In the Key of Nira Ghani | Winner | [11] |
| S. K. Ali | Love from A to Z | Finalist | [12] | |
| Nafiza Azad | The Candle and the Flame | |||
| L. D. Crichton | All Our Broken Pieces | |||
| Tom Ryan | Keep This to Yourself | |||
| 2021 | Janice Lynn Mather | Facing the Sun | Winner | [13] |
| June Hur | The Silence of Bones | Finalist | [14] | |
| Ben Philippe | Charming As a Verb | |||
| Raziel Reid | Followers | |||
| Danielle Younge-Ullman | He Must Like You | |||
| 2022 | Xiran Jay Zhao | Iron Widow | Winner | [15] |
| S. K. Ali | Misfit in Love | Finalist | [16] | |
| Jasmin Kaur | If I Tell You the Truth | |||
| Liselle Sambury | Blood Like Magic | |||
| Courtney Summers | The Project | |||
| 2023 | Zoulfa Katouh | As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow | Winner | [17] |
| Nafiza Azad | The Road to Lost | Finalist | [18] | |
| Jesmeen Kaur Deo | TJ Powar Has Something to Prove | |||
| June Hur | The Red Palace | |||
| H. N. Khan | Wrong Side of the Court | |||
| 2024 | Abdi Nazemian | Only This Beautiful Moment | Winner | [19] |
| Daniel Aleman | Brighter Than the Sun | Finalist | [20] | |
| Jackie Khalilieh | Something More | |||
| Liselle Sambury | Delicious Monsters | |||
| Sarak Suk | The Space Between Here & Now |
References
edit- ^ "One remarkable woman reading her way across Canada". Canada AM, December 31, 2014.
- ^ Mark Medley, "Jonathan Auxier wins big at the Canadian Children’s Book Centre awards". The Globe and Mail, November 19, 2015.
- ^ "Nanaimo author Susan Juby wins teen book award". Nanaimo News Bulletin, November 24, 2016.
- ^ "Nanaimo author Susan Juby nominated for the Amy Mathers Teen Book Award". Nanaimo News Bulletin, September 8, 2016.
- ^ Laura Godfrey, "'Great Auk' Wins TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award". Publishers Weekly, November 22, 2017.
- ^ Becky Robertson, "Jon Klassen, Julie Flett, Chris Hadfield among CCBC Award finalists". Quill & Quire, September 7, 2017.
- ^ Chanda Deziel, "Town is by the Sea, The Marrow Thieves, When the Moon Comes honoured at TD Canadian Children’s Literature Awards". Quill & Quire, October 30, 2018.
- ^ Shanda Deziel, "Wendy Orr, Cherie Demaline, and Monique Gray Smith among CCBC Award finalists". Quill & Quire, September 6, 2018.
- ^ "36 Canadian books that won awards in the second half of 2019". CBC Books, December 30, 2019.
- ^ Jane van Koeverden, "Jillian Tamaki, Kelley Armstrong, Janice Lynn Mather among Canadian Children's Book Centre finalists". CBC Books, September 5, 2019.
- ^ "Julie Flett wins $50K TD Canadian Children's Literature Award for picture book Birdsong". CBC Books, November 2, 2020.
- ^ "Julie Flett, Sydney Smith among finalists for $50K TD Canadian Children's Literature Award". CBC Books, September 15, 2020.
- ^ Inderjit Deogun, "Winners of the 2021 CCBC Book Awards revealed". Quill & Quire, November 3, 2021.
- ^ Inderjit Deogun, "CCBC Book Awards announces 2021 shortlist". Quill & Quire, September 14, 2021.
- ^ Inderjit Deogun, "Winners of the 2022 CCBC Book Awards revealed". Quill & Quire, September 30, 2022.
- ^ "David A. Robertson, Xiran Jay Zhao & Christian Allaire among finalists for top Canadian children's book awards". CBC Books, September 12, 2022.
- ^ Zoie Karagiannis, "Kim Spencer wins $50K Canadian children's book award for first novel Weird Rules to Follow". CBC Books, October 24, 2023.
- ^ "Canadian Children’s Book Centre 2023 awards shortlists announced". Quill & Quire, September 12, 2023.
- ^ "Jean E. Pendziwol and Jack Wong among winners for Canadian children's book awards". CBC Books, October 29, 2024.
- ^ Natalie Vilkoff, "Jack Wong, Sydney Smith and Liselle Sambury among finalists for top Canadian children's book awards". CBC Books, October 8, 2024.