The ''White Pine Award'' is one of the annual literature
Forest of Reading
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awards sponsored by the Ontario Library Association (OLA).
Every year, 10 books are nominated for the award and students vote their favourite book.
The White Pine Nonfiction Award was discontinued after 2014.
Voting
In order to vote for the winner, one must register at the local branch library and read a minimum of 5 of the 10 nominated books. The program ends in April (of that year), with the voting day usually on April 18. Based on student voting across the province, the most popular book is then selected and author is honored with the White Pine Award. There are usually about 10 different nominees for the award every year.
Winners (Fiction)
* 2002 – ''Dancing Naked'', written by
Shelley Hrdlitschka
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. Published by Orca Book Publishers.
* 2003 – ''A Foreign Field'', written by
Gillian Chan
Gillian Chan (born 1954) is a Canadian children's author who lives in Dundas, Ontario.
She was educated at Orange Hill Grammar School and the University of East Anglia (BEd, 1980).
Chan is also the author of a short diary entry of Chin Mei-l ...
. Published by Kids Can Press.
* 2004 – ''The First Stone'', written by Don Aker. Published by
HarperCollins
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.
* 2005 – ''More Than You Can Chew'', written by Marnelle Tokio. Published by Tundra Books.
* 2006 – ''The Blue Girl'', written by Charles De Lint. Published by Viking.
* 2007 – ''Shattered'', written by
Eric Walters
Eric Robert Walters, (born March 3, 1957) is a Canadian author of young adult fiction and picture books. As of 2020, Eric Walters has written over 100 books.
Background
Walters was an elementary school teacher at Vista Heights Public School in ...
. Published by Viking/Penguin.
* 2008 – ''Keturah & Lord Death'', written by
Martine Leavitt
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Biography
Leavitt was born in 1953 in Canada. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree, first class honours, from the University of Calgary ...
. Published by Red Deer Press.
* 2009 – '' Little Brother'', written by
Cory Doctorow
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. Published by
Tor Books
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/H.B. Fenn and Company.
* 2010 – ''Mostly Happy'', written by Pam Bustin. Published by Thistledown Press.
* 2011 – ''The Monkeyface Chronicles'', written by Richard Scarsbrook. Published by Thistledown Press.
* 2012 – ''The Gathering'', written by
Kelley Armstrong
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* 2013 – ''Dark Inside'', written by Jeyn Roberts. Published by Simon & Schuster.
* 2014 – ''Live to Tell'', written by Lisa Harrington. Published by Dancing Cat Books.
* 2015 – ''Rush'', written by Eve Silver. Published by HarperCollins Canada.
* 2016 – ''The Bodies We Wear'', written by Jeyn Roberts. Published by Knopf Books and Penguin Random House Canada.
* 2017 – ''Fifteen Lanes'', written by S. J. Laidlaw. Published by Tundra Books.
* 2018 – ''Everything Beautiful Is Not Ruined'', written by
Danielle Younge-Ullman
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The ''White Pine Award'' is one of the annual literature ...
. Published by Razorbill Canada.
*2019 – ''The Agony of Bun O'Keefe'', written by Heather T. Smith. Published by Penguin Teen Publishing.
*2020 – ''Sadie'' written by
Courtney Summers
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Career
Her first novel, '' ...
. Published by St. Martin's Press.
*2021 – ''
Hunted by the Sky
''Hunted by the Sky'' is a fantasy novel by Tanaz Bhathena that was published in 2020. It won the 2021 White Pine Award.
Reception
The book was reviewed by ''Quill & Quire'', ''The Hindu'', and ''The New Indian Express
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'' by
Tanaz Bhathena
Tanaz Bhathena is a Canadian author. She has written '' A Girl Like That'' and '' The Beauty of the Moment.''
Early life
Bhathena was born in Mumbai, and later lived in Saudi Arabia. She moved to Canada when she was a teenager.
Bibliography
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Winners (Non-fiction)
* 2012 – ''The Book of Awesome'', written by Neil Pasricha. Published by Penguin Group U.S.A./Amy Einhorn Books.
* 2014 – ''The Secret of the Blue Trunk'', written by Lise Dion and Liedewij Hawke. Published by Dundurn.
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