White Pine Award

White Pine Award
White Pine Award
Awarded for	Awarded to various outstanding works of Canadian young adult literature (Grades 9-12: ages 14-18)
Country	Canada
Presented by	Ontario Library Association
First awarded	2002
Website	http://www.accessola.com/ola/bins/content_page.asp?cid=92-263

The White Pine Award is one of the annual literature Forest of Reading awards sponsored by the Ontario Library Association (OLA).^[1]

Every year, 10 books are nominated for the award and students vote their favourite book.^[2]

The White Pine Nonfiction Award was discontinued after 2014.^[3]

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

Award winners^[4]
Year	Author	Title	Publisher	Ref.
2002	Shelley Hrdlitschka	Dancing Naked	Orca Book Publishers
2003	Gillian Chan	A Foreign Field	Kids Can Press
2004	Don Aker	The First Stone	HarperCollins
2005	Marnelle Tokio	More Than You Can Chew	Tundra Books
2006	Charles De Lint	The Blue Girl	Viking
2007	Eric Walters	Shattered	Viking/Penguin
2008	Martine Leavitt	Keturah & Lord Death	Red Deer Press
2009	Cory Doctorow	Little Brother	Tor Books/H. B. Fenn and Company
2010	Pam Bustin	Mostly Happy	Thistledown Press
2011	Richard Scarsbrook	The Monkeyface Chronicles	Thistledown Press
2012	Kelley Armstrong	The Gathering	Random House of Canada/Doubleday Canada
2013	Jeyn Roberts	Dark Inside	Simon & Schuster
2014	Lisa Harrington	Live to Tell	Dancing Cat Books
2015	Eve Silver	Rush	HarperCollins Canada
2016	Jeyn Roberts	The Bodies We Wear	Knopf Books/Random House Canada	^[5]^[6]
2017	S. J. Laidlaw	Fifteen Lanes	Tundra Books	^[7]
2018	Danielle Younge-Ullman	Everything Beautiful Is Not Ruined	Razorbill Canada	^[8]
2019	Heather T. Smith	The Agony of Bun O'Keefe	Penguin Teen Publishing	^[9]
2020	Courtney Summers	Sadie	St. Martin's Press	^[10]
2021	Tanaz Bhathena	Hunted by the Sky	Farrar Straus and Giroux	^[11]

Non-fiction

Award winners
Year	Author	Title	Result
2012	Neil Pasricha	The Book of Awesome	Penguin Group U.S.A./Amy Einhorn Books
2014	Lise Dion and Liedewij Hawke	The Secret of the Blue Trunk	Dundurn Press

References

^ "Nominated Lists". Ontario Library Association. Archived from the original on 20 December 2015. Retrieved 24 December 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
^ "White Pine Award". The Canadian Children's Book Centre. Archived from the original on 20 September 2019. Retrieved 20 September 2019.
^ "White Pine Award Winners and Nominees 2002-2018" (PDF). Ontario Library Association. Archived from the original on 3 March 2019. Retrieved 6 April 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
^ "White Pine Award Archives". Canadian Children's Book Centre. Archived from the original on 2022-12-08. Retrieved 2023-05-26.
^ "2016 OLA Forest of Reading - White Pine Award (Grades 9 to 12) - 2016". Toronto Public Library. Retrieved 6 April 2019.
^ Cerny, Dory. "Awards: OLA Forest of Reading". Quill and Quire. Archived from the original on 6 April 2019. Retrieved 6 April 2019.
^ Cerny, Dory (2017-05-17). "OLA announces 2017 Forest of Reading Winners". Quill and Quire. Archived from the original on 2019-04-06. Retrieved 2019-04-06.
^ von Koeverden, Jane (2018-05-17). "Vikki VanSickle, Danielle Younge-Ullman among 2018 Forest of Reading Winners". CBC Books. Archived from the original on 2019-04-06. Retrieved 2019-04-06.
^ Rubinoff, Joel. "Waterloo children's author nabs $50,000 prize". The Record. Archived from the original on 18 August 2021. Retrieved 18 August 2021.
^ Scriver, Amanda (March 2021). "YA novelist Courtney Summers and the complicated allure of cults". Quill & Quire. Archived from the original on 2021-08-18. Retrieved 2021-08-18.
^ Porter, Ryan (2021-05-18). "Forest of Reading Awards kicks off three-day ceremony, announcing first round of winners". Quill and Quire. Archived from the original on 2021-06-24. Retrieved 2021-06-22.

[1] "Nominated Lists". Ontario Library Association. Archived from the original on 20 December 2015. Retrieved 24 December 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)

[2] "White Pine Award". The Canadian Children's Book Centre. Archived from the original on 20 September 2019. Retrieved 20 September 2019.

[White_Pine_Winners-3] "White Pine Award Winners and Nominees 2002-2018" (PDF). Ontario Library Association. Archived from the original on 3 March 2019. Retrieved 6 April 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)

[4] "White Pine Award Archives". Canadian Children's Book Centre. Archived from the original on 2022-12-08. Retrieved 2023-05-26.

[5] "2016 OLA Forest of Reading - White Pine Award (Grades 9 to 12) - 2016". Toronto Public Library. Retrieved 6 April 2019.

[6] Cerny, Dory. "Awards: OLA Forest of Reading". Quill and Quire. Archived from the original on 6 April 2019. Retrieved 6 April 2019.

[7] Cerny, Dory (2017-05-17). "OLA announces 2017 Forest of Reading Winners". Quill and Quire. Archived from the original on 2019-04-06. Retrieved 2019-04-06.

[CBC_2018-8] von Koeverden, Jane (2018-05-17). "Vikki VanSickle, Danielle Younge-Ullman among 2018 Forest of Reading Winners". CBC Books. Archived from the original on 2019-04-06. Retrieved 2019-04-06.

[9] Rubinoff, Joel. "Waterloo children's author nabs $50,000 prize". The Record. Archived from the original on 18 August 2021. Retrieved 18 August 2021.

[10] Scriver, Amanda (March 2021). "YA novelist Courtney Summers and the complicated allure of cults". Quill & Quire. Archived from the original on 2021-08-18. Retrieved 2021-08-18.

[11] Porter, Ryan (2021-05-18). "Forest of Reading Awards kicks off three-day ceremony, announcing first round of winners". Quill and Quire. Archived from the original on 2021-06-24. Retrieved 2021-06-22.

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