2017 - Winner - Best Books for Kids & Teens Starred Selection - Canadian Children's Book CentreAt his new school, Dylan joins a soccer team of immigrant and refugee students. Getting to know his teammates provides Dylan with a lesson on teamwork and opens his eyes about real hardship. |
2017 - Commended - Best Books for Kids & Teens -- Canadian Children's Book CentreMarcus has a great life — until it all goes downhill |
2017 - Commended - Best Books for Kids & Teens -- Canadian Children's Book CentreWhen Hannah doesn't make the Grade 8 girls basketball team and June does, Hannah misses playing basketball and spending time with her best friend. |
2017 - Winner - Best Books for Kids & Teens Starred Selection - Canadian Children's Book CentreA lack of educational and career opportunities, medical support and counselling on Native reserves leads to a rash of teen suicides. Can Floyd turn around his community's descent into crisis before it's too late? |
2017 - Commended - Best Books for Kids & Teens -- Canadian Children's Book CentreRaised on an Indian reserve, seventeen-year-old Joe Littlechief runs away when his devout Christian community discovers he is gay. |
2017 - Winner - Best Books for Kids & Teens Starred Selection - Canadian Children's Book CentreCross-country runner Chris trains with a Native kid who has been displaced by a fire in the community and learns what it's like to be a refugee and literally run for your life. |
2017 - Winner - Resource Links The Year's Best - Fiction Grades 7-12Vienna, a mixed Native American teen, and her mother struggle to escape her step-father's constant violence by moving to a new city to start new lives. |
2017 - Commended - Best Books for Kids & Teens - Canadian Children's Book CentreSarimah, a young Syrian refugee, moves to Saskatoon and has to switch from playing soccer in the sand to the snow while learning to adjust to her new life in Canada. |
2017 - Commended - Best Books for Kids & Teens -- Canadian Children's Book CentreA skilled younger player is added to the soccer team, bringing the chance for Cody and some of the Lions to get called up to an elite team. |
2017 - Commended - Best Books for Kids & Teens - Canadian Children's Book CentreArchie starts Grade 6 as the only kid who has not grown over the summer. He goes on a mission to make himself bigger, stronger and faster to impress his best girl friend, Shamini. |