Governor General’s Literary Award – Young People’s Literature — Text

1992 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Text WinnerHero of Lesser CausesJulie JohnstonKeely and her elder brother are inseparable until Patrick becomes paralysed by polio. She knows she must overcome her despair and self-pity if Patrick is to regain his will to live. Readership level: 12+ years....Amazon1992 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Text Shortlist1812: Jeremy and the GeneralJohn IbbitsonAmazonA Coyote Columbus StoryThomas KingAmazonLooking at the MoonKit PearsonAmazonMy Mother's GhostMargaret BuffieAmazon

1991 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Text WinnerPick-Up SticksSarah EllisThirteen-year-old Pollys rebellion against her unmarried, fiercely independendent mother comes to a head when they must find a new apartment....Amazon1991 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Text ShortlistA Happy New Year's DayRoch CarrierAmazonStars Come Out WithinJean LittleAmazonThe Last Great DinosaursMonty ReidAmazonTwo Moons in AugustMartha BrooksAmazon

1990 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Text WinnerRedworkMichael BedardRedwork is published by Fitzhenry and Whiteside....Amazon1990 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Text ShortlistCovered BridgeBrian DoyleAmazonThe AuctionJan AndrewsAmazonWhalesingerWelwyn Wilton KatzAmazon

1989 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Text WinnerBad BoyDiana WielerA.J. Brandiosa becomes the bad boy of the Cyclone hockey team, and learns that his best friend is gay, as he tries to cope with his own sexuality during his senior year in high school....Amazon1989 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Text ShortlistCircle of LightEliane Corbeil RoeAmazonThe Sky is FallingKit PearsonAmazon

1988 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Text WinnerThe Third MagicWelwyn Wilton KatzHaving traveled out of her era to an alien world called Nwm, Morgan Lefevre faces great challenges as she is caught between two battling forces in an effort to get hold of the ancient sword that controls the Third Magic. Reprint....Amazon1988 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Text ShortlistEasy AvenueBrian DoyleAmazonLittle by LittleJean LittleAmazonParadise Café and Other StoriesMartha BrooksAmazon

1987 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Text WinnerGalahad Schwartz and the Cockroach ArmyMorgan NybergGalahad saves Glitterville with the aid of some unexpected allies....Amazon1987 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Text ShortlistA Book DragonDonn KushnerAmazonFalse FaceWelwyn Wilton KatzAmazonGoing to the DogsRussell McRaeAmazon

2003 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Text WinnerStitchesGlen HuserTravis has been waiting to get to junior high. When that time finally comes, things are both better, and worse, than he had hoped. On the plus side are two great new teachers. On the minus side theres Shon Docker, Traviss old tormenter from elementary sc...Amazon2003 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Text ShortlistAnn and SeamusKevin MajorAmazonThe MaestroJudd PalmerAmazonThe Several Lives of Orphan JackSarah EllisAmazonTheories of RelativityBarbara Haworth-AttardAmazon

2004 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Text WinnerAirbornKenneth OppelSailing toward dawn, and I was perched atop the crows nest, being the ships eyes. We were two nights out of Sydney, and thered been no weather to speak of so far. I was keeping watch on a dark stack of nimbus clouds off to the northwest, but we were lea...Amazon2004 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Text ShortlistEstherSharon E. McKayAmazonHeck SuperheroMartine LeavittAmazonRed Land, Yellow River: A Story from the Cultural RevolutionAnge ZhangAmazonThe Wolf KingJudd PalmerAmazon

2005 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Text WinnerThe Crazy ManPamela PorterAfter a freak farm accident, twelve-year-old Emaline, dealing with her disability and the abandonment of her father, finds salvation in Angus--a patient from the local mental hospital who has been hired to work in their fields. Reprint....Amazon2005 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Text ShortlistAfterFrancis ChalifourAmazonHannah Waters and the Daughter of Johann Sebastian BachBarbara NickelAmazonMella and the N’anga: An African TaleGail NyokaAmazonSwimming in the Monsoon SeaShyam SelvaduraiAmazon

2006 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Text WinnerPirate’s PassageWilliam GilkersonNova Scotia, 1952. Not exactly the place you’d expect to run into pirates. But an old mariner, his boat driven ashore in a gale, brings with him enough stories about buccaneers and their lore to make it seem that he must have had firsthand experience of th...Amazon2006 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Text ShortlistFriendshipsBudge WilsonAmazonIngrid and the WolfAndré AlexisAmazonMe and the BlondesTeresa TotenAmazonSkinnybones and the Wrinkle QueenGlen HuserAmazon