Hackmatack Children's Choice Book Award

Another Canadian young readers' book award?  You bet!

If you're a young reader, 9 to 12 years of age, living in Atlantic Canada, then you're fortunate to be able to share your favourite reading with others through the annual Hackmatack Children's Choice Book Award literary program.  This program, designed to promote literacy and Canadian books, provides four lists of ten nominated titles annually: English Fiction, English Non-Fiction, French Fiction and French Non-Fiction.  Nominations are announced in the spring with reading taking place from September to March, voting before April, and then announcement of the winning titles in April or May.

Young readers will soon be voting for their favourite reads from the 2011-2012 Hackmatack Children's Choice Book Award nominations (see lists below) with the winners announced at a ceremony on April 27, 2012 in Moncton, New Brunswick. 

2011-2012 Hackmatack Award nominees

ENGLISH FICTION The Adventures of Jack Lime  by James Leck  The Dread Crew: Pirates of the Backwoods by Kate Inglis The Gnome’s Eye by Anna Kerz Kayak Combat  by Eric Howling Libby’s Got the Beat  by Robert Rayner  Jacob Two-Two on the High Seas by Cary Fagan Prisoner of Dieppe: World War II by Hugh Brewster Pit Pony   by Joyce Barkhouse Tumbleweed Skies by Valerie Sherrard Zach & Zoe: Bully and the Beagle by Kristin Butcher

ENGLISH NON-FICTION

Animals That Changed the World

by Keltie Thomas

Canada from Above

by Heather Patterson

Canada’s Wars: An Illustrated History

by Jonathan Webb

Don’t Touch That Toad & Other Strange Things Adults Tell You

by Catherine Rondina

Fatty Legs: A True Story

by Christy Jordan-Fenton and Margaret Pokiak-Fenton

Case Closed? Nine Mysteries Unlocked by Modern Science

by Susan Hughes

The Hilarious History of Hockey

by Helaine Becker

Highway of Heroes

by Kathy Stinson

New Brunswick Kids Cook

By Marilyn Lohnes

Wild Ones

by Paddy Muir

 

ROMAN FRANÇAIS

Bienvenue à Rocketville

par Danielle Boulianne

Catastrophe en Guadeloupe

par Camille Bouchard

Le combat des caboches

par Marie Beauchamp

L’étrange affaire du 413

par Nadya Larouche

Les livres mènent loin!

par Emilie Boucher

Du soccer extrême

par François Gravel

Le projet Persée

par Sophie Bérubé

Livreur express

par Véronique Drouin

Ton journal intime Zone Frousse

par Richard Petit

Vlad et moi et les nids-de-poule

par Brigitte Huppen

DOCUMENTAIRE FRANÇAIS 

L’astronomie facile et amusante

par Jean-Pierre Urbain

Le cheval

par Sylvie Roberge et Jacques Pasquet

Citron bleu et zeste de carotte

par Céline Malepart

Marco Polo

par Johanne Ménard

Les Marmottes

par Alain Bergeron; Sampar; Michel Quintin

Julie Payette

par Christine Ouin et Louise Pratte

Le petit livre des affaires dégueulasses

par Stéphanie C. Dubois

Mon premier livre de contes du Canada

par Corinne De Vailly

Secrets des fleurs de bord de routes

par Marie D’Amours

Ti-Jean-Tête-d’Or

par Melvin Gallant

The 2012-2013 Hackmatack Children's Choice Book Award nominations will be announced this spring.