They have announced the finalists for the 2018 CCBC Book Awards! Here are the English-language finalists:

CANADIAN CHILDREN’S LITERATURE AWARD

Dragonfly Song by Wendy Orr

Picture the Sky by Barbara Reid

Speaking Our Truth: A Journey of Reconciliation by Monique Gray Smith

Town Is By the Sea by Joanne Schwartz, illustrated by Sydney Smith

When the Moon Comes by Paul Harbridge, illustrated by Matt James

 

MARILYN BAILLIE PICTURE BOOK AWARD

Little Blue Chair by Cary Fagan, illustrated by Madeline Kloepper

My Beautiful Birds by Suzanne Del Rizzo

Sam & Eva by Debbie Ridpath Ohi

Stolen Words by Melanie Florence, illustrated by Gabrielle Grimard

When the Moon Comes by Paul Harbridge, illustrated by Matt James

You Hold Me Up by Monique Gray Smith, illustrated by Danielle Daniel

 

NORMA FLECK AWARD FOR CANADIAN CHILDREN’S NONFICTION

#NotYourPrincess: Voices of Native American Women edited by Lisa Charleyboy and Mary Beth Leatherdale

Meatless? A Fresh Look at What You Eat by Sarah Elton, illustrated by Julie McLaughlin

The Sockeye Mother by Hetxw’ms Gyetxw, illustrated by Natasha Donovan

Rewilding: Giving Nature a Second Chance by Jane Drake and Ann Love

When Planet Earth Was New by James Gladstone, illustrated by Katherine Diemert

 

GEOFFREY BILSON AWARD FOR HISTORICAL FICTION FOR YOUNG PEOPLE

The Agony of Bun O’Keefe by Heather Smith

The Assassin’s Curse by Kevin Sands

A Blinding Light by Julie Lawson

Clutch by Heather Camlot

Step Up to the Plate, Maria Singh by Uma Krishnaswami

 

JOHN SPRAY MYSTERY AWARD

The Assassin’s Curse by Kevin Sands

Blood on the Beach by Sarah N. Harvey and Robin Stevenson

The Case of the Missing Mage by Liam O’Donnell, illustrated by Mike Deas

The Hanging Girl by Eileen Cook

Recipe for Hate by Warren Kinsella

 

AMY MATHERS TEEN BOOK AWARD

The Agony of Bun O’Keefe by Heather Smith

Everything Beautiful Is Not Ruined by Danielle Younge-Ullman

The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline

Munro vs. the Coyote by Darren Groth

The Way Back Home by Allan Stratton